From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Jan 23 2003 - 00:49:26 MST
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:29:52PM -0500, EvMick@aol.com wrote:
> Recently I've been reading about Plasma....the "fourth state of matter". It
> seems that Hans Alfven (an early researcher in the field) proposed some
> pretty off the wall things....but not SO off the wall that he still didn't
> receive a Nobel for his work.
Yes, but he got the prize for his work on plasma, not cosmology.
> Currently there are multiple websites on the subjects (HoloScience, The
> Electric Universe, The Plasma Cosmos) to mention just three.
>
> To me (not a geek) their presentation seems well thought out and
> reasoned....with lots of pretty pictures from the Hubble. Also a guy name of
> Arp weighs in ("Seeing Red").....it seems he's an astronomer.
Is this an argument?
My impression is that the theory is discarded by the mainstream by now.
It does not fit the Cobe observations of cosmic microwave background
anistropy, seems to require new forces to explain redshifts and the
powerful electromagnetic fields assumed in the intergalactic medium
ought to be very visible to modern observations. In short, once it was a
bold alternative to the mainstream theories, but in the light of new
data it is less and less tenable.
It is still popular among the fringe science crowd, who would love to
have a simpler, kindlier universe where you didn't have to include
quantum mechanics and general relativity into the description.
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