<p>Although I’m not a physics major, I have done a fair amount of dabbling in the basic principles of astrophysics. Through my readings, I’ve come across very little about plasma cosmology. Perhaps it is better known amongst physics students? </p>
<p>I was wondering if there were any blatant reasons why this model seems to be so neglected, or have I simply stumbled upon a common concept that is merely new to me?</p>
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I have a feeling that mainstream physicists have issues with these explanations.</p>
<p>I am a medical doctor so I am not a scientist and before going to medical school I earned a BS in Astrophysics which allows me to be somewhat knowledgeable about astronomy and cosmology, but again does not make me a scientist.</p>
<p>I looked at a number of web sites promoting the Electric Universe hypothesis and the impression I received, from the point of view of an educated layman, is that it is almost certainly pseudoscience. It rejects the Theory of Relativity, the relationship between redshifts and the distances to receding galaxies and Big Bang Cosmology. These theories date back to the early 20’th century, have been extensively and exhaustively investigated, and are strongly backed up by actual observation as well as theory. All evidence and observations to date support them and none contradict them.</p>
<p>The Electric Universe theory also proposes that the Sun and the other stars are powered by external sources of electricity and not by nuclear fusion reactions in their cores. This flies in the face of theoretical calculations and observations such as the neutrino flux from the Sun which demonstrates nuclear fusion in the core of the Sun is taking place at a rate consistent with the observed luminosity of the Sun.</p>
<p>The theory has essentially no support on the part of professional astronomers and physicists. The main proponents of the Electric Universe theory appear to be engineers, who like medical doctors, have some scientific training and hold professional degrees but are not scientists with academic degrees and extensive research training and experience.</p>