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BIg Bang Failure Is Newscientist Headline (again)


Ho hum.

Another week, another Newscientist headline trumpeting the failure of mainstream cosmology.

The cover of the latest issue read ‘MISSING DARK MATTER’ and referenced an article about how all attempts to detect dark matter using increasingly capable instruments have failed. This, the cover reckoned, would lead to ‘radical new theories about our universe’.

Well, yay, I thought. Finally the plasma/electrodynamic model, which was we know can account for the rotation curves of galaxies without needing any ‘hidden matter’ was going to get to chance to shine.

Of course, it didn’t. Instead the article made clear that the usual defence against debunking data presents itself: When results don’t turn out as expected, just make up new hypotheticals that can be retrofitted to the data to explain away the inconvenient results. The excuse Big Bangers are coming up with this time is new classes of particle that interact with matter even more weakly than WIMPS. This conveniently means they can’t be detected by any of our instruments but of course they must be there because if not the Big Bang completely fails to model the universe we see.

By now it should be obvious that this is akin to saying planets must move in ever-more complex epicycles because the alternative is that the Ptolemaic system is incorrect and that’s unthinkable.



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I'm sure that when navigators were searching for a way to track longitude, some were saying, "Why don't they just accept that the earth is flat!"
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Actually when navigators were searching for a way to track longitude, astronomers were sure it would be one of their own who would find a way. When it was actually a clock maker called John Harrrison who solved the problem by inventing a chronometer that could keep accurate time even on a ship being tossed about by the waves, the astronomical society used every trick in the book in order to frustrate his claiming the prize so that one of their own could figure out an another answer from their own field of expertise. In the end the Monarch of the day had to step in to tell the astronomical Establishment to stop messing around and award Harrison the prize.

As I pointed out in my essay on nuclear fusion, there may be parallels between Harrison and the lack of funding going toward focus fusion. Success in this area would perhaps draw people’s attention to plasma cosmology and my suspicion is that funds are being deliberately withheld by the Big Bang-dominated groups who fund things like Tokomaks, which are based on their own flawed understanding of plasma physics (this is why nuclear fusion as a practical tech is 50 years away and always will be).

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I'm afraid plasma cosmology is a nonstarter. Birkeland currents of the magnitude needed (10^18 amps over scales of megaparsecs) for galaxy formation do not exist.
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It says here in a paper called ‘The Plasma Universe-Theory and Background’:

“In 1984 Farhad Yusef-Azdeh, Don Chance and Mark Morris found an example of Birkeland currents on a galactic scale. Working with the Very Large Array radio telescope, they discovered an arc of radio emission some 120 light-years long near the centre of the Milky Way. The structure is made of of narrow filaments typically 3 light-years wide and running the full length of the arc. The strength of the magnetic field is 100 times greater than previously thought possible on such a large scale, but the field is nearly identical in geometry and strength with computer simulations of Birkeland currents in studies of galaxy formation”.

Oo and what is this from a 2006 Newscientist Article?

“Contrary to what everyone thought, magnetic fields that stretch across galaxies have become a commonplace observation...They can also be seen on the scale of clusters of galaxies, and there are tantalising hints that they run in plasma filaments across even vaster tracts of space”.

I do laugh at the idea that magnetic fields running in plasma filaments on a scale larger than galaxy clusters was “contrary to what everyone thought”. Actually it is only contrary to what subscribers of the failed Big Bang theory thought. Plasma filaments running across galaxy clusters and even larger tracts of space are to be expected in the plasma cosmology model.



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It says here in a paper called ‘The Plasma Universe-Theory and Background’:

“In 1984 Farhad Yusef-Azdeh, Don Chance and Mark Morris found an example of Birkeland currents on a galactic scale. Working with the Very Large Array radio telescope, they discovered an arc of radio emission some 120 light-years long near the centre of the Milky Way. The structure is made of of narrow filaments typically 3 light-years wide and running the full length of the arc. The strength of the magnetic field is 100 times greater than previously thought possible on such a large scale, but the field is nearly identical in geometry and strength with computer simulations of Birkeland currents in studies of galaxy formation”.

Oo and what is this from a 2006 Newscientist Article?

“Contrary to what everyone thought, magnetic fields that stretch across galaxies have become a commonplace observation...They can also be seen on the scale of clusters of galaxies, and there are tantalising hints that they run in plasma filaments across even vaster tracts of space”.

I do laugh at the idea that magnetic fields running in plasma filaments on a scale larger than galaxy clusters was “contrary to what everyone thought”. Actually it is only contrary to what subscribers of the failed Big Bang theory thought. Plasma filaments running across galaxy clusters and even larger tracts of space are to be expected in the plasma cosmology model.



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I actually found something more recent:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/magnetic-fields-between-galaxy-clusters

I will not dismiss is outright as crackpotism, but it is definitely in danger.
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According to the article you posted:

““So far, magnetic fields have been measured in [specific] objects, like in clusters, or in galaxies,” says Nabila Aghanim, a cosmologist at the Institute for Space Astrophysics in Orsay, France, not involved in the work. In the cosmic web, filaments stretch between galaxy clusters to form a sort of celestial mesh full of cavernous voids. If magnetic fields also pervade the gaseous throughways between galactic hubs, they may have influenced the properties and evolution of gas throughout the cosmos, she says”.

This is how Nobel Laureate and one of the founders of plasma cosmology, Hans Alfven, described the universe according to this model:

“Space is filled with a network of currents which transfer energy and momentum over large or very large distances. The currents often pinch to filamentary or surface currents. The latter are likely to give space, as also interstellar and intergalactic space, a cellular structure”.

Alfven’s description of a network of currents that often pinch to form filaments does sound a lot like the ‘cosmic web’ with its “filaments (that) stretch between galaxy clusters to form a sort of celestial mesh full of cavernous voids”.

BTW if the name Alfven is vaguely familiar, it is because his work featured in my essay on nuclear fusion, the one in which I explained how plasma science diverged to create two paths: One in which a psuedoscientific but mathematically-elegant model was developed and adopted by Big Bangers, and another one which is more physically accurate but difficult to model mathematically, which was taken up by plasma cosmologists (they tend to rely more in practical experiments than highly speculative hypotheses scribbled in arcane symbols on a blackboard) Papers of this kind tend not to get published in astrophysics peer groups but do get published in electrical engineering journals where people who actually know what their talking about judge the merits of this kind of research.
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