Nobody said charge was magic. Nobody said plasma was “The Force”. I can’t imagine what it would mean for plasma to “bind everything together”. Those were your (silly) words. Your claim was that charge could only exist on “large-scale objects”. An ion is not a large-scale object, yet an extended collection of ions, which we call “plasma”, can indeed carry charge, and both be affected by and generate magnetic fields. Plasma does have mass. The mass of hadronic matter in low-density plasma form completely overwhelms that locked up in “large-scale objects”.

The only substantive statement in your reply is, in fact, false: “it’s easy to detect a plasma flow”. Plasma flow is visible only if the current level is high enough. That’s called “glow phase”. At higher current densities we see “arc phase”. At lower levels it is invisible. If plasma fluid dynamics were taught in high school, you might know that.

So far you’re batting sub-zero. It wouldn’t mean anything to say the universe is electric. It means no more to insist that it’s not, but it tells us something about the speaker.

No, large-scale plasma flows that link the universe together in the manner suggested by Electric Universe hypothesis have never been detected. Sure, plasma exists, but it’s not “The Force”, and unlike “The Force” plasma does not bind everything together. It’s easy to detect a plasma flow – go look at a neon lamp. That doesn’t mean that the universe is electric.

Nathan, you’re a troll, and I will feed you no further.

Thus far you’re not doing very well.

The simple fact that the electromagnetic force is huge relative to gravity would mean that large-scale charged objects would have obvious, undeniable properties and effects that could not be overlooked by those poor, misguided gravity theorists. Those properties could not be hidden in mathematical tricks or assumptions. Large scale plasma flows could be easily measured by instruments well below modern technology, there’s no trick to it, you only need to look. Well, we have the instruments in place, and the flows are not observed.

Consequently, it is apparent to anyone who has even a tenuous grasp of high-school physics that the Electric Universe hypothesis cannot be true, even if it is true that some plasma exists here and there.

That the interstellar medium is plasma throughout, kept partially or fully ionized by high-energy radiation? That the collective mass of plasma in the ISM and IGM entirely overwhelms the collective mass of star systems? That every star is itself plasma, from fully-ionized core to fully-ionized corona? That plasma fluid dynamics is overwhelmingly more complex than ordinary fluid dynamics? That charged particles move through space, producing a magnetic field as they go? That magnetic fields in space vary in time and space, producing potential differences? That the degree of ionization and elemental composition found varies from place to place?

I suppose you “debunk” it all just by insisting none of the above can possibly have any effect on anything that actually observable. Perhaps you make up a bunch of claims that no one actually asserts (e.g. “gravitation has no effect”), and make fun of those. Maybe you pick absurd claims by ideologists who have latched onto plasma-astronomical concepts, and project them on everyone else. Probably you trot out results from an approximation (e.g. pith balls, or MHD) and project them on conditions where their underlying assumptions are violated. Most likely all of the above. None of this, of course, would count as honest.

No. The electric universe hypothesis pops up in comments here from time to time. It’s been debunked countless times, and is worthy of being dismissed out of hand with no further discussion.

If you aren’t basing your comments on “electric universe” then the answer to my question is simply “no”.