What I am saying is that there are major problems in the current crop of explanations that are being touted as the "truth". Science is about developing theories

What I am saying is that there are major problems in the current crop of explanations that are being touted as the "truth". Science is about developing theories and models by which we can understand the universe around us. When we start to believe that they are "true", we then have a very hard time accepting evidence that says they are not at all accurate. Whether the "Electric Universe" or any other model is capable or not of explaining what we see is for research efforts. What bemuses me is the apparent inability of highly trained scientists to think outside the box so to speak. They appear to be happy with their mathematical incantations (I know the word is provocative) as being the "truth" of reality. Science is not about "truth", it is about providing functional ways to understand and manipulate the universe around us in an organised logical way. If you want "truth", go become a philosopher or theologian. But come on, all mathematics is a map by which we try to understand the processes going on around us. In the main they provide a way of logically looking at the universe around us, but they are approximate and fail in the very fine detail. Otherwise, we would not have this incredible incompatibility between how we describe the very small and how we describe the very large. There is a strong unwillingness amongst many of those who propagate the current crop of widely accepted theories to give any credence that their theories and models may be fundamentally wrong. We do not learn the lessons of the past, so we repeat the same mistakes. So what if a model does not accord with consensus? The Nobel Prise has been awarded to people for discoveries in fields where those people faced great ridicule because of what they discovered was against the consensus model and theory at the time of discovery. If our theories and models have gaping holes, let us investigate alternatives that might not have those gaping holes.