You're no moron to ask this question, it's exactly the heart of the matter.
Do electric currents flow in space? And the answer to that must be yes.

This is how I understand what the electric model is about:
There are currents flowing through space; they are called Birkeland currents. For a long time space was considered to have an aether, after Einstein space was considered a empty void, now space is known to have particles and should be considered a plasma; exactly this property is where the current theories and the electric model differ. The Standard model needs a power source from the stars that is capable of ionizing atoms, thus explaining how these particles are formed (like the solar wind). In an electric model it happens exactly the other way around; vast expanses of space flowing with electric currents form into Birkeland ropes (helically formed shapes that attract to each other magnetically) that can accumulate matter (charged and neutral as well) into concentrations needed to form stars (called the Z-pinch effect). These concentrations work as a kind of anode to the existing current and electrons flow towards the star, powering the star and the star dissipates the energy outward in an electrical circuit. Plasma self-organizes into double layers, you can find these double layers close to the Sun (corona) and there is one somewhere outside Pluto's orbit (also known as the Sun's magnetosphere or heliosphere). These double layers are the boundaries where the electrical charge is exchanged. Every star will have these features, but depending on the amount of current (current density) in the vicinity of the star and it;s mass, the star will behave differently. Like an electric circuit a star will have it's own "frequency" to dissipate energy, some stars have a low frequency (our Sun's frequency seems to be eleven years). When the density is low, there almost no discharge and the star will look like (is) a brown dwarf. Higher densities will make the plasma glow and all the known normal stars can be found, when the density is even higher, the star will have trouble to accomodate the charge and will start to behave differently. It can "fission" and thus creating a larger surface which will lead to the formation of planets or, when the stress is higher, a nova resulting in a new star and so on. There's whole lot more but this post is long enough already.
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