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by saas_sam 2173 days ago
This has been a popular fringe scientific theory for many years under the title Electric Universe Theory. Fringe for sure, but its lead proponents tend to be real scientists referencing real, peer-reviewed literature.
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>This has been a popular fringe scientific theory for many years under the title Electric Universe Theory.

They're not at all related.

>but its lead proponents tend to be real scientists referencing real, peer-reviewed literature.

They have real PhDs, some of them from respectable universities, but it's an incestuous group that has people not participate in studies so they can all peer review each other in "journals" with no real standing.

The Electric Universe is a much different, much more wide-reaching bit of crackpottery than this.