Reply To: Questions regarding DPF.

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A few years ago I was able to chat with a professional astronomer who worked at Palomar, and I asked her why astrophysicists seemed to prefer to use the gravitational force to explain everything, neglecting electromagnetism. She acknowledged that the latter was 10 to the 43 times larger than the former and that 95% of the universe was in the form of plasma, and then she shrugged. “Gravity only has one aspect and works only in one direction. Electromagnetism has two aspects which interact with each other, and both can be positive or negative. It is just very difficult to model.” She then mentioned something about Occam’s razor, and we started talking about something else. It was clear that astronomers in general study very little Plasma Physics and try to take the easy way out in their theorizing.