Reply To: Toshiba's "Micro Nuclear Reactor" – it's not fusion, but it's here now

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Glenn Millam wrote: CRACKPOT THEORY ALERT:

One thing I have wondered about since they found that the Universe is expanding at a faster rate is what could be causing it. Could it be that over time, areas in space are gaining overall positive charge (more protons than electrons) and this is causing a repellant effect, expanding the Universe faster as the forces grow over time? I do not have the physics chops to say what would cause this other than to think that maybe fusion in stars are producing proton waste at a slightly higher rate than electrons, and these protons are being blown out by solar winds to form plasma filaments that repel at long distances.

All those protons in the interstellar medium had to come from somewhere. The physicists who have downplayed Alfven’s theories over the years have assumed that interstellar medium is neutral electrically, thus plasma and electromagnetism does not play a large role in large scale physics like gravity does. These pictures say otherwise, but I don’t see people acknowledging it. I’d really like one of the smart people at LPP (maybe even Mr. Lerner?) look at this and write a few words of explanation.

Or perhaps a proton imbalance could come from some other phenomenon. “Thus the effective charge of an electron is actually smaller than its true value, and the charge decreases with increasing distance from the electron.”

I think if this were the case then electrons or matter with a net negative charge (when ever they happen to come about) would start to flow out of the Galaxies (due to the strong positive charge in intergalactic space) at considerable speed and this would lead to the breakup or at least some noticeable ‘puffing up’ of the galaxies in cosmologically short amount of time, as we do not see this it suggests to me idea is falsifiable on these grounds. Admittedly though I am no expert and may be way over my head.