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Originally Posted by Extropia DaSilva
Nevertheless plasma cosmology does sometimes appear to my naive eyes to come up with more plausible explanations. I would imagine that if plasma cosmologists posited the existence of an object that either violated the laws of relativity or quantum mechanics, this would be held as definitive proof that the theory was catastrophically wrong. But it is actually their oponents who believe certain observations reveal 'black holes' and it is they who come up with theories concerning a universe with 5 large dimensions of space contorted into a certain geometry (which does not look like our universe at all) in order to 'fix' the GR/QM violation problem.
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It seems very misleading - I might even say
propagandistic - to couple the fairly well established "black hole theory" with the much more speculative and so far strictly mathematical solutions involving extra dimensions. No scientist claims that there are not unsolved problems, but to point this out is surely no argument that provides any support for some alternative "theory." We have yet to detect any extra dimensions, but the evidence for black holes has become inescapable.
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Originally Posted by Extropia DaSilva
Meanwhile, plasma cosmology simply notes that the supposed evidence matches the plasma focus...
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As I'm sure you know, mainstream astrophysicists are well aware that accreting matter onto the "central engine" of a quasar, for example, generates hugely powerful magnetic fields and beams that accelerate infalling gases to near the speed of light, viewed as radio lobes. Perhaps you could explain how renaming such a phenomenon and making rather vague, qualitative claims about it supports any effort to refocus all of cosmology to one man's particular bias?