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A "dark fluid" with negative mass COULD dominate the Universe, sure. But so could galactic-scale electric currents and magnetic fields, and is more likely. No
by DiabloD3 8y ago
A "dark fluid" with negative mass COULD dominate the Universe, sure.
But so could galactic-scale electric currents and magnetic fields, and is more likely.
No one ever talks about that.
- XorNot 8y agoBoth these are real things we measure with radiotelescopes. They are not strong enough to produce the necessary effects, they are however interesting phenomena - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.5663.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.5663.pdf.
- jerf 8y agoThe biggest tell that the Electric Universe theory is bunk is that anybody who ever talks about it can't hardly get two sentences in before dropping in the "but nobody ever talks about magnetic fields or electric currents at this scale"... which is easily observed to be utterly false. Astrophysicists talk about it a lot, and you can find even more discussion if you add "plasma" to the search terms. If Electric Universe advocates are so wrong about something so easy to check, it doesn't give me much reason to check out anything else they say. (The fact that I have done so nevertheless and I've never managed to find them making an actual prediction is another. It seems to be one of those recursive handwave theories that never quite lands on anything concrete no matter where you search, but it sure does know that the standard theory is wrong.)
- jazzyjackson 8y agodon't EM fields require a persistent source?
- dekken_ 8y agothis is the correct answer. Gravity is a product of this also. Light is a circuit and black holes don't exist