Commenting on the some-days-old post of Z's may seem out of order - I said I'd look at Anaconda's (electromagnetic) acceleration of charged particles talking point next - but it may be related; let's see how ...
Yes, In solids, liquids and gasses charges do cancel out. In plasma however they separate in a variety of highly complex an non linear ways. And yes, EM is amazingly more powerful than gravity.
In an earlier post I pointed out that even the Earth is charged up millions of coulombs, and the atmosphere contains a voltage of over 300,000 volts (as the atmosphere is a very poor conductor). Such reasons for how charge separates to create the lightning are unknown. But if magnitudes of charge separation that large, and that close to home, are still largely without an adequate reason for how they occur, the occurence of MUCH larger charge separation and huge EM effects is possible in space. The detailed work of Alfven and others on charge separation and plasma scalability could answer many of these questions, and is still being applied to this day.
There is an inescapable consequence of large charge separations and the ubiquity of free electrons in space (a consequence of overall charge neutrality, ionisation, and ordinary matter being composed of electrons plus protons and neutrons) - acceleration of those electrons.
And there is then another inescapable consequence, when you add the ubiquity of magnetic fields: synchrotron radiation ... which surely qualifies for Z's "
huge EM effects [...] in space"!
So we arrive, in a fairly straight-forward way, at observations of synchrotron radiation as - potentially - excellent tests of these "
the occurence of MUCH larger charge separation [...] in space" ideas.
Now presumably all "EU theorists" know this well, as would all proponents of PC ... which leads to the curious question of why Z hasn't cited dozens (or more) of papers (published in relevant peer-reviewed journals) establishing at least the plausibility of these ideas (per the cornucopia of astronomical observations).
Care to comment, Z?
A bit of evidence of large EM influences and charge separation that springs to mind is that spiral galaxies tend to spiral more in one direction than another, possibly implying a large scale magnetic field in region some 350 Mpc across. The alignment of the spins seems to point in direction close to that defined by anisotropies in the CBR. Also, theres an asymmetry in the Hubble expansion some 600 Mpc or more across, the Hubble constant is about 10% lower in some directions than in others, implying either an asymmetry in the process that creates the Hubble redshift, or velocities for galaxies of up to 3,000 km/sec.
Is the Cosmic "Axis of Evil" due to a Large-Scale Magnetic Field?
Authors: Michael J. Longo
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703694v2
Dated March 2007, but not apparently submitted to any journal yet ... I wonder why?
Does the Universe Have a Handedness?
Authors: Michael J. Longo
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703325v2
Some good work ... and as he notes, there have been other studies of the extent to which 'handedness' can be detected in the observations of spiral galaxies. The results are mixed; for example, one the
Galaxy Zoo papers (
Galaxy Zoo: the large-scale spin statistics of spiral galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey) finds any "
violation of large-scale statistical isotropy in the distribution of projected spin vectors of spiral galaxies" to be marginal at best (and that there is indeed a bias ... in human observers' assignment of handedness, based on images!).
Anisotropy in the Hubble constant as observed in the HST Extragalactic Distance Scale Key Project results
Authors: M. L. McClure, C. C. Dyer
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703556v1
(An)isotropy of the Hubble diagram: comparing hemispheres
Authors: Dominik J. Schwarz, Bastian Weinhorst
arXiv:0706.0165v1 [astro-ph]
The possibility of the local universe - out to many hundreds of Mpc - being anisotropic is fascinating! It is an area that is likely to get a lot of attention in the coming decade or three.
It's rather too soon to characterise this anisotropy - if indeed it exists - so it's also much too soon to say what it might mean, cosmologically speaking.
However, I think you'll have to do a bit more work, Z, to show that there might be a connection between large-scale charge separation, or very large-scale, coherent magnetic fields, and any observed anisotropy in spiral galaxy spins or H
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