If I'm gonna' go crazy, might as well do it all at once. =oP

All I'm saying is there are alternate theories that are worthy of speculation based on observation. Whether or not they turn out to be true is another matter. Still. Science is on some level about pattern matching, and finding the best matches/correlations. I'm not saying these are necessarily "the best," just interesting parallel that are worth looking into, casually if nothing else. But I have a strong suspicion that eventually it'll all work itself out and we'll understand what REALLY happened in the mid to ancient past. Right now, it's all just guess-work.

But if there was an underlying structure to the universe? Why should E/M not even be considered as part of it? Seeing as it displays the same branching/dendritic pattern as channel systems, plants, leaves, roots, arteries, veins, etc. etc.

Is there something that precludes things from arranging themselves along field lines? E/M seems to be relatively self-arranging, much like life. Heck, our nervous system uses electrical impulses to transmit messages along nerves, the brain is full of electrical activity. What makes you so certain that life doesn't inherently USE electricity and/or magnetism for such basic functions as figuring out how to build macro structures?

It's interesting that, on a slightly unrelated note, it has been shown that fish have adapted to how water acts in order to best work in harmony with the water. I read a very interesting article about experiments wherein a sheet was placed in water, and they flowed water past it at different rates parallel to the sheet. At a certain rate of flow, the sheet begins to naturally, swish back and forth in the exact same way a fist flips its tail back and forth to generate thrust.

In this way, it seems like structures in fish were created to exploit how water moves and flows. Why is it difficult to believe that other organisms might adapt to other forces of nature in the same way? I suppose that's more of a biology or a physical biology, or even an evolution question... But still. It's a fair question to ask. Granted it's a bit off-topic for space sciences. Still... It's at least an interesting question.

E/M is not a "trivial" force. In fact it's a rather strong force, under some circumstances it exerts tremendous forces (such as in lightning strikes). I'm just saying that we shouldn't marginalize it just because we don't necessarily understand its behavior/effects fully yet. We can see its effects all over the place. We just need to recognize them as such.

Recognize and investigate, that's the ol' scientific motto, no?

Alrighty, enough crazy talk. ;o]