Category:Plasma

This category collects work on plasma — ionized gas, the fourth state of matter and the state of the great majority of the visible universe — and on the electrical and magnetic phenomena that govern it.

Plasma occupies a special position in this literature. Because it conducts, it responds to electromagnetic forces that are many orders of magnitude stronger than gravity, and researchers on this wiki argue that mainstream astrophysics, having built its models on gravity alone, systematically misreads phenomena that are electrically driven. Entries include Birkeland currents and field-aligned filaments, the z-pinch and its laboratory scaling to cosmic structures, plasmoids and self-organizing plasma configurations, double layers, and laboratory plasma experiments offered as scale models of astrophysical objects.

The cosmological application of these ideas is under Category:Plasma Cosmology; the broader programme is under Category:Electric Universe.