Uhuh.

It must be possible to break out of this catch 22, because if it were not there would never have been any paradigm shifts in scientific thinking.

Do not hold your breath waiting for me to write an EU theory that has any merit. Sadly, we are no longer in the good old days when scientific debate was held in centres of great learning that shut their doors to all but the highly qualified. These days any old fool can put forward an opinion on forums. Luckily, there are probably REAL experts who can explain how, where and why the opinions of the less well-qualified are in error. Which means I get to learn far more quickly than I ever would have in an age without forums

Right now I am more interested to know why EU is not in any way accepted as a real alternative. The answer is becoming clear very quickly, I assure you.

'All over the world people are working on plasma(astro)physics, which, if you look at it closely, is EU, because all the theories that the EU proponents say that are barred from investigation, are used in plasma(astro)physics, be it Birkeland currents, double layers etc.'

Indeed. One of the unexplored features of the universe are the magnetic fields that stretch across clusters of galaxies. It is proposed that inflation could be responsible for this because, when electrons and protons 1st formed the 1st hydrogen atoms, photons would have scattered off electrons and protons. Being as they are a lot heavier than electrons, the photons would have scattered differently off them, generating small differences in the velocoties of protons and electrons and this would have created electric currents and, therefore, magnetic fields.

'EU proponenst seem to think that plasma physics and electric fields are forbidden terrain for mainstream scientists'.

The work I mentioned above is enough to show this is not the case. Electricity DOES feature in inflationary cosmology. But, as I understand it, the PC community's complaint is that electricity is invoked only at a particular stage in the universe's development and is afterwards ignored. Regardless of the fact that the PC community has not provided sufficient quantitive analysis, is it REALLY so wrong to be suspicious that general relativity might be a good description of a theoretical universe that is governed by gravity and not OUR universe that is mostly plasma and therefore electrically charged and therefore controlled mainly by electromagnetic effects?