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Check the original sources instead of those crackpot web sites you're so fond of. Alfvén knew the stars are powered by nuclear fusion, I have a little book of his called Worlds-Antiworlds (published in 1966) in which he says so. He also discusses plasmas and their behaviour at some length in it, and using his work in support of the electric universe you're promoting is the kind of complete misrepresentation of legitimate science so typical of pseudoscience. He would not have agreed with you.
He changed his mind Dexter and he changed it like a real scientist, because the observable physical world we call reality compelled him to do so. You could use his example to good effect to get yourself out of the Big Bang priesthood. It's a pleasure proving you wrong , as usual no numbers were abused during the operation no models were glued together and I didn't get on my knees in front of Einstiens photo. There is not one molecule of evidence anywhere in the universe to support nuclear suns, none. PS you wouldn't know a crackpot if one fell on you:lol:
In 1970, Hannes Alfvén, the 'father of plasma physics,' warned that cosmology was headed into crisis. He was referring to the treatment of plasma—which makes up about 99.9% of the visible universe—as a magnetizable gas. Alfvén was responsible for the theory, known as 'magnetohydrodynamics' or MHD. But he publicly repudiated its use for space plasma in his 1970 Nobel Prize acceptance speech:
"The cosmical plasma physics of today is far less advanced than the thermonuclear research physics. It is to some extent the playground of theoreticians who have never seen a plasma in a laboratory. Many of them still believe in formulae which we know from laboratory experiments to be wrong. The astrophysical correspondence to the thermonuclear crisis has not yet come."
—H. Alfvén,
Plasma physics, space research and the origin of the solar system, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1970
But astrophysicists didn't want to know. MHD made their theoretical work easy compared with the intricate behavior of plasma discovered in attempts to harness fusion power—the so-called 'power source of the Sun.' Their ignorance of the real behavior of plasma was certain to lead to divergence between theory and reality, just as it did for fusion power.
In fact each specialist group fuelled the mistakes of the other. It is a common situation in institutionalized science today. The astrophysicists misled the nuclear physicists into thinking the Sun is powered internally, which led nuclear physicists to try unsuccessfully to mimic the Sun's hypothetical thermonuclear 'engine.' The nuclear physicists have nevertheless misled the astrophysicists into thinking that a stable thermonuclear reaction is possible inside the Sun even though it results in a weird body that transfers internal heat unlike any other—by radiation instead of conduction and convection. And the Sun is a cosmic body that is assumed to have much the same composition at its center as at the top of its atmosphere! Clearly, it has been a theoretical 'deadly embrace.'
Alfvén was considered a brilliant maverick. He
The Astrophysical Crisis at Red Square
