<blockquote>"We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect."
- Hannes Alfvén</blockquote>
'..Astrophysicist Hannes Alfvén came up with an “electric galaxy” theory as early as 1981..'<blockquote>'Astronomers also think that a dark (meaning "undetectable") kind of matter must exist because stars on the edges of spiral galaxies revolve with the same angular velocity as stars close to their centers. Newtonian theory insists that stars farther away ought to move more slowly, so dark matter was assumed to impart extra velocity to them, although serious doubt about dark matter
was already being published when those ideas were made public.
Electric Universe proponents share a different view regarding the nature of the cosmos. Astrophysicist
Hannes Alfvén came up with an “electric galaxy” theory as early as 1981. Alfvén observed that galaxies resemble
homopolar motors. A homopolar motor is driven by magnetic fields induced in a circular aluminum plate or some other conductive metal. The metal plate is placed between the poles of an electromagnet that causes it to spin at a rate proportional to the input current.'
- Stephen Smith,
Plasmoids Refute Dark Matter Theory, May 05, 2011</blockquote>
'..Alfvén pointed to the increasing specialization of science during this century. “We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy,” he said in 1986. “Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.”..'<blockquote>‘Attempting to explain the resistance to his ideas, Alfvén pointed to the increasing specialization of science during this century. “We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy,” he said in 1986. “Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.” Among the causes of this transition, Alfvén believed, are territorial dominance, greed, and fear of the unknown. “Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.”‘
- Anthony L. Peratt,
Hannes Alfvén (1908-1995) </blockquote>