In reply to 1st post by Dash:
From the “plasma cosmology” wikipedia page:
“…in 1991, Eric J. Lerner, an independent researcher in plasma physics and nuclear fusion, wrote a popular-level book supporting plasma cosmology called The Big Bang Never Happened. At that time there was renewed interest in the subject among the cosmological community (along with other non-standard cosmologies). This was due to anomalous results reported in 1987 by Andrew Lange and Paul Richards of UC Berkeley and Toshio Matsumoto of Nagoya University that indicated the cosmic microwave background might not have a blackbody spectrum. However, the final announcement (in April 1992) of COBE satellite data corrected the earlier contradiction of the Big Bang; the level of interest in plasma cosmology has since fallen such that little research is now conducted.”
Make of that you will. Seems to me the WMAP cold spot, the so called “Dark Flow” observations, and perhaps the recent observations from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope showing higher than expected gamma radiation from nova events, should all rekindle interest in plasma cosmology.
edited to add: hadn’t read far into thread and hadn’t realized how old this thread was when I first posted.
