For discussion's sake.

I'm something of a supporter of electrical theory in relation to some stellar astrophysical processes, so I'll just out that now to get it out of the way.

Anyway, my question stems from a few recent posts of mine that met with a little hostility. Maybe that's too harsh a word. I guess they met with the classical view of the solar system, which disagrees with electrical theory. We won't go into the prior posts, as they're not directly related to the topic at hand.

Anyway, my question is this. Has electricity ever been academically considered as a driving force of any active processes in the solar system or on Earth. If so, what processes have been posited as electrical processes. Obviously lightning is electrical. Anything else? Dust devils on Mars appear to display electrical characterization via, what, x-ray emissions and their confined filamentary structure over their entire length (up to a mile or more high, if I recall correctly?). Any other features or processes that have been proposed to have electrical characterization or causation? The auroras of Earth (and by proxy the auroras around the poles of other planets can be ASSUMED to have electrical characterization; what's good for the goose is good for the gander and the planets are similar enough to earth that the same process [of polar auroras] can be assumed to have the same cause, yeah?).

I'm just wondering out of curiousity. If nothing else has been considered from an electrical standpoint, what is the reasoning behind NOT looking at it from an electrical point of view? Is there any specific evidence that has been gathered by investigations that show that electricity is somehow "neutral" in the solar system, or basically doesn't do anything aside from lightning shows and maybe the auroras? Or has science just turned a blind eye to one of the most fundamental forces of nature aside from gravity, magnetism (intimately related to electricity but somehow divorced from electricity in relation to magnetic phenomena in the solar system and cosmos; to the layman that seems weird, one basically imples the other, right?), strong/weak nuclear forces?

I'm just wondering what happens when we start comparing electrical theory to processes we see in nature and the cosmos. I mean, there's a branch of cosmology that deals with electricity and plasma in the cosmos called Plasma Cosmology, right? Pioneered by Birkeland and Alfven, etc? Yeah?

So, I guess my question is, if electricity hasn't been studied in relation to the solar system and the cosmos, SHOULD it be? What do you think we'll find if we look through the eyes of an electrical engineer? How does one posit and then "prove" electrical causation of certain characteristic features? It seems like soem good work has already been done in the lab, but has also been met with skepticism and/or downright ignorance in the mainstream community. So, how does one introduce the concept without being labeled as a crackpot? And how does one perform experiments if it's hard to secure funding of said research since the establisment generally seems ignorant of such things and labels it the work of crackpots? Perhaps that's not always the case, but still. It generally seemed to be panned in modern research. I'm just wondering why, and what the community can do to change it?

But seriously, any and all comments appreciated. Any ideas of other features aside from lightning, auroras and vortex weather systems (tornadoes, land spouts, dust devils, water spouts and MAYBE hurricanes) that could have electrical origins? Possibly electrical concretions (spherules) like those produced by electrical discharge machining (think terrestrial Moqui marbles/balls, shaman stones, thunderballs, & Martian "blueberries")? What about Lichtenberg figures? WE know that they can be produced by electricity on a photo plate. We know they can be produced by lightning striking a golf course or other terrestrial surface. We know they can be formed in insulating acrylic by bombarding it with high energy particles until saturation then tapping the surface with a conductor to allow a dialectric breakdown, electron cascade process, catastrophic discharge, and leave a 3D lichtenberg figure scarred inside the acrylic permanently. If we look at individual "spiders" on Mars' south pole, they display Lichtenberg radial branching, surface blackening, etc. So, how would one go about proposing that they are simply a Martian expression of the terrestrial golf course scarring we see in lightning strikes. And how would we go about proving it? I mean the photos speak for themselves, and anyoen who looks with an electrical interpretatoin in mind can see it readily. But the explanation encounters heavy dogmatic resistance from the conventional science community. So, how does one convince skeptics of such a thing, when they won't believe the photographs?

So, yeah, lots to think about, lots to discuss. Have at it...

*Plants a lightning rod and walks away, waiting for the storm to come, and hopes it's a good show.*