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Plasma cosmology

• With regard to the formation
• of planets, stars, galaxies,
• and the universe,
• plasma permeates the cosmos
• so let’s not assume
• only ordinary matter matters.
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• Does electromagnetism in plasmas
• affect charged particles in space
• more than gravity?
• Could the theory of double layers
• explain baryon asymmetry
• and the origin of our universe?
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• In the cosmology
• of Alfvén and Klein,
• we live in an ambiplasma bubble
• that has expanded beyond
• the visible universe.

Plasma scaling

• The secret of scaling
• plasma parameters
• are questionable laws
• without dimensions.
• Plasma equations have many factors—
• capacitance, conductivity, current,
• current density, electric field,
• electron density, gas density,
• inductance, ion density,
• ionization fraction, length,
• magnetic field, particle energy,
• potential, resistance, time, and velocity—
• all related to each other.
• Ignoring inessentials
• leads to transformations
• that respect similarities
• across orders of magnitude.

Vast

• Big. Really big.
• More than are dreamt of.
• Clouds spread across
• interstellar spaces.
• Even stupidity, even ignorance
• are not more vast.
• Yet like ghosts
• they drift without bodies.