Trust me, at no time do I accept anything uncritically. If anything, I do my own investigations online and elsewhere to get as many viewpoints as possible. However, I do find a number of their arguments quite interesting if not convincing. Granted, some items are a bit more of a stretch of the imagination than others. However, their key note that electricity plays a larger role in the solar system and cosmos than traditionally accepted, I do tend to accept, after looking at a sufficiently large sampling of data (local and far out in space).

I also tend to agree with their statement that terminology in more traditional circles tends to exclude things of an electrical nature. IE, people talk about "highly ionized gases" rather than plasma, and they talk about accelerated "winds of charged particles" rather than "currents." Despite the fact that a flow of charge is the defining characteristic of a current.

But enough on all that. I just think it's interesting that electricla interchanges are being discovered seemingly daily that were NOT predicted by "classical physics" but rather by new wave plasma physicists like Alfven and later folks.

Anyway, you're right to not accept anything uncritically, but if you really go digging, what you SEE tends to, frankly, contradict traditional theory. Much as I hate to say it. And I think that, as they also say, science has strayed too far from fitting theories to observations (observe first then theorize) into a realm of fitting observations to theory (which is kind of like looking into the wrong end of a telescope). I know there's a delicate observe, theorize, reobserve, re-theorize cycle. It just seems like sometimes new data is interpreted through the lens of old ideas (big bang cosmology), or else discarded if it doesn't fit the old models (Arp is a subject for a different day; but, if you haven't read his book "Seeing Red", you should, it's a great book. Currently reading it. Hard to put down at times.).

Anywho, just figured I'd put those links out there. Always good for entertaining an interesting thought for a moment, or a lark, or a laugh, depending on the mood.

I guess I'll end with a quote from Alan Alda via Reader's Digest (not usually a reader of the same, but the grandmother handed me a copy on the ride up to Tacoma for Thanksgiving this morning): "True listening involves a willingness to be changed by the other person."

Cheers! And a happy Turkey Day to all... =o]
~Michael