Hello to everyone ... I joined this forum only to answer this thread because it deals with an important subject.
To Dino the OP ...
As a layman, I have been aware of the Electric Universe model for some time. For a number of reasons, I find the theories behind it acceptable and am therefore a firm supporter of it. I hope that to some degree I can answer your questions. (If required, I can expand.)
Yes, the Electric Universe model does offer elegant explanations. These are typically best appreciated by those already with the ability or who are willing to take the trouble to understand basic electromagnetism and electrical, magnetic and plasma science. An appreciation of scale is also useful, as is an open mind uncluttered by what we are told by supporters of the Newtonian/Einsteinian gravitational and relativistic standard model of the universe.
You said ...
"... labelled by many in the scientific establishment as pseudoscience." ... Yes, unfortunately this has been true to an extent. Many of those in the astro-science establishment who have great investment in the standard model see it as potentially disruptive to their current work and careers so EU theory is typically ignored, ridiculed and on some occasions, attacked.
"The universe is made up of plasma ..." ... Yes, 99.99+%. This figure represents matter in an electrically non-neutral state which is therefore susceptible to the influence of the electromagnetic force. The concepts of Dark Matter and Dark Energy play no part in the EU model.
"Plasma is a perfect conductor ..." ... No, this is one of the major wrong assumptions. Plasma has inherent resistivity and so voltages can exist within it (charge-differentiated plasma) because of voltage drop and *currents will therefore flow. If it was a perfect conductor (superconductor), like is claimed by mainstream astro-science, then their additional claim that magnetic fields exist in space without needing electrical power to create them, would indeed be the case. However, this is not the case. Powerful magnetic fields do exist out there but they are created by the current flow I referred to*.
"Gravity is not the predominant force ..." ... No, indeed it is not! Electromagnetism (EM) is 10^39 times stronger than gravity. That's one thousand, billion, billion, billion, billion times more powerful. This is a proven fact that you will rarely see highlighted. Plasma Science is now an accepted discipline by the IEEE.
"Comet tails are electrical ..." ... Yes they are, but this is only one aspect of a comet's (an electrically charged object) reaction to travelling through a charged plasma gradient, the charge density of which increases rapidly as the comet gets closer to the Sun (which itself is the anode in an electrical circuit).
"Black Holes can be debunked ..." ... Yes they can. There is no need for these figments of the imagination when the fundamentals of how the EM force operates on dynamic plasma at gigantic scales are considered. Neither is there any need for Neutron Stars, Pulsars, Magnetars, Radio Stars or a multitude of astro-science's other athletic mathematical inventions. For more on the nonsense of Black Holes look at the work of Stephen Crothers and retired professor of mathematics and physics Jeremy Dunning-Davies of Hull university in England. (Crothers website:
https://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/ and a short article by JDD:
https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2011/09 ... d-matters/ - JDD also has published a very enlightening book "Exploding a Myth" which I believe is available on Amazon.)
"the sun and other stars are not nuclear reactors ..." ... Correct. All stars are electrical in nature but they do have nuclear fusion going on ... close to their photospheres! The 'dark mode' plasma environment of space supplies power to stars which themselves are created through Z-pinch (Bennet Pinch) events that occur due to instabilities within Birkeland currents. For starters on this, look up the work of Ralph Juergens in terms of the electric Sun model and the work of Prof Kristian Birkeland, Hannes Alfven and Dr Anthony Peratt for Birkeland currents and Z-pinch theory.
Also, in the EU model there is a different interpretation of redshift than the one originally offered by Hubble (he actually came to disagree with his own original assessment of what it stood for.) In the alternative view, redshift has practically nothing to do with distance and speed of recession, so an age for the universe cannot be assumed, ergo, the big bang occurring 13.7 billion years ago is a fairy tale, and they (we) just don't know anything about its origin. Redshift in EU terms is most commonly discussed in relation to the age and composition of quasars (and active galaxy nuclei). Look at the work of Dr Halton Arp for more on this. He used to work with Hubble but got forced out by the governing committee at Mt Palomar when he produced proof that suggested a number of low redshift and high redshift objects are physically joined together. He was also disqualified from using major telescopes in the US and so he had to go to Germany to work at the Max Planck Institute where he still remains. He was awarded the SAGNAC award last year by the NPA (Natural Philosophy Alliance conference in the US), this being 'maverick science's' equivalent to the Nobel Prize.
Dino ... you refer in your final words to the "suppression of the electric paradigm" ... how true this is! If it were to be more openly discussed, a very large house of cards would tumble.
To Revisionist ... You ask what the EU says about the Sun. Well, in addition to what I have already said, it also states that it is a ball of plasma in a high powered 'glow mode' (there are three modes of plasma: dark, glow and arc.) It receives electric energy from its cosmic plasma environment via current density impinging on its photosphere and also coming in at its 'poles'. Internal circulating currents exist that assist with producing "the solar wind" as a more concentrated plane of plasma through ecliptic; this actually being an accelerating flow of protons away from the positive Sun. This flow extends through the heliosphere out to the heliopause where it circulates back to the Sun's 'poles'. This defines the Sun as the anode of a circuit and the heliopause as the cathode, with everything in between (all the planets and other stuff) being negatively charged in relation to the Sun to a degree determined by their distance from the Sun. This is a big subject but if you would like to look further, you should study the work of Dr Charles Bruce and Ralph Juergens. It is worth highlighting that the electric model of the sun gets around the temperature profile and neutrino deficiency problems that exist in the nuclear model. (It gets around many other major issues as well!)
To Sorenson ... Your reference to the Faint Sun Paradox is invalid because that is basically one hypothesis (the 4+ billion year old earth) based on another hypothesis (an ongoing nuclear explosion at the centre of the Sun), neither of which are relevant within EU theory.
There is a lot to take in here so I would suggest that anyone further interested should look in the first instance at two particular websites. The Thunderbolts Project at
https://www.thunderbolts.info and Wallace Thornhill's website (the science doyen of the EU model) at
https://www.holoscience.comPlease note, I will only respond to questions that are unburdened by assumption and to obviously researched points of objection.
I hope this helps.
With respect ... Pan.