The Electric Universe - Peer-review of Plasma Cosmology (2011)

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The Bentham Open Astronomy Journal - Some Initial Thoughts on Plasma Cosmology

Peer-review of Plasma Cosmology September 7, 2011

The Electric Universe - '..electrical explanations..' (Haptopraxeology III)



'..the subject of plasma cosmology [34], a laboratory-testable theory that is not taught to students of astronomy, while it is recognized by the world’s largest professional body, the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)..'

'Most astrophysicists are ignorant of the real electromagnetic activity of space plasma, which is far more complex than the ‘magnetized fluid’ (MHD) theory of plasma behavior they are trained to employ. MHD theory is mathematically attractive but applies only in dense plasma, a fact that has crippled fusion research for decades.

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5. PLASMA COSMOLOGY
On the cosmological scale this brings us to the subject of plasma cosmology [34], a laboratory-testable theory that is not taught to students of astronomy, while it is recognized by the world’s largest professional body, the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Verschuur is perhaps the only astronomer who attends IEEE Space Plasma conferences and consequently could see the significance of his discovery of the slight offsets between some WMAP ‘hot spots’ and the interface between interacting neutral hydrogen (HI) filaments in local interstellar space.

Historically, the only noteworthy challenge to the Big Bang hypothesis was the ‘Steady State,’ or ‘Continuous Creation’ hypothesis, developed by Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold, Hermann Bondi and others. Although more appealing to commonsense than the Big Bang, it too fails by invoking creation of matter and accepting the metaphysical notion that space can expand. These two faults alone are sufficient to reduce the field of modern cosmological theories to perhaps one—plasma cosmology.

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And so that there can be no objection, the computer simulations have been backed up by electrical discharge experiments in the highest energy density laboratory—the Z-pinch machine. The experiments verify each stage in development of the electrodynamic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. This important work demonstrates that the beautiful spiral structure of galaxies is a natural form of plasma instability in a universe energized by electrical power. We are liberated from all of the whimsical nonsense accompanying the Big Bang hypothesis—the invisible dark matter, the dark energy, the expanding universe (whatever that meant) and creation of matter from nothing. But as the Open Letter notes, “Big Bang proponents have won the political and funding battle so that virtually all financial and experimental resources in cosmology are devoted to Big Bang studies. Funding comes from only a few sources, and supporters of the Big Bang dominate all the peer-review committees that control the funds. As a result, the dominance of the Big Bang within the field has become self-sustaining, irrespective of the scientific validity of the theory.” The dominance of the Big Bang points to a failure of the government funded, institutionalized way science is done today and the way that scientists are trained in narrow specialties. And the effort to ‘discover’ new particles and forces is misdirected when we do not understand those we are subject to every day.'

- Wallace W. Thornhill, Toward a Real Cosmology in the 21st Century (pdf), 27 August, 2011