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Lerner Plasma Universe vs Alfvén-Klein Ambiplasma Cosmology

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	Lerner Plasma Universe Rejected	Alfvén-Klein Ambiplasma Cosmology Historical
Proposed	1991 / 2022	1960s
Key figures	Eric Lerner	Hannes Alfvén, Oskar Klein
In one sentence	Eric Lerner's plasma cosmology rejects the Big Bang entirely, claims the CMB is thermalized starlight via intergalactic dust, and has argued (most recently in 2022) that JWST images of early galaxies disprove ΛCDM.	Alfvén and Klein in the 1960s and 1970s proposed an eternal universe with matter and antimatter ('ambiplasma') separated by large-scale electromagnetic fields, where cosmic expansion arises from annihilation processes rather than from a hot singular beginning.
Predictions	CMB arises from thermalized starlight processed by intergalactic dust Galaxies at high redshift should not show surface brightness dimming consistent with cosmic expansion Plasma processes account for galaxy rotation without [[dark matter]]	Large-scale matter-antimatter segregation by electromagnetic fields Annihilation radiation at boundaries between matter and antimatter regions No primordial hot phase, hence no Big Bang relics
Where it breaks	The CMB blackbody spectrum is too precise to be reproduced by dust thermalization Surface brightness analysis of JWST data with proper k-corrections and sample selection remains consistent with ΛCDM Has not produced a quantitative fit to the combined dataset of CMB, BAO, SNe, and large-scale structure	No observational evidence of large-scale matter-antimatter segregation or annihilation radiation has been found Cannot account for the CMB's blackbody spectrum and anisotropies Has been overshadowed by mainstream Big Bang cosmology with no demonstrated quantitative success on cosmological data
Key unresolved problem	The recycled-starlight problem: no amount of warming starlight on intergalactic dust, dust thermalization, can match the near-perfect even glow of the cosmic microwave background, measured to one part in ten thousand, without leaving telltale spectral distortions.	The missing glow problem: the model needs giant boundaries where matter meets antimatter and destroys it, producing telltale annihilation radiation, yet no trace of that gamma-ray signature has ever been seen.
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Lerner Plasma Universe

1991 / 2022 · Rejected

Alfvén-Klein Ambiplasma Cosmology

1960s · Historical

Proposed

1991 / 2022

1960s

Key figures

Eric Lerner

Hannes Alfvén, Oskar Klein

In one sentence

Eric Lerner's plasma cosmology rejects the Big Bang entirely, claims the CMB is thermalized starlight via intergalactic dust, and has argued (most recently in 2022) that JWST images of early galaxies disprove ΛCDM.

Alfvén and Klein in the 1960s and 1970s proposed an eternal universe with matter and antimatter ('ambiplasma') separated by large-scale electromagnetic fields, where cosmic expansion arises from annihilation processes rather than from a hot singular beginning.

Predictions

CMB arises from thermalized starlight processed by intergalactic dust
Galaxies at high redshift should not show surface brightness dimming consistent with cosmic expansion
Plasma processes account for galaxy rotation without [[dark matter]]

Large-scale matter-antimatter segregation by electromagnetic fields
Annihilation radiation at boundaries between matter and antimatter regions
No primordial hot phase, hence no Big Bang relics

Where it breaks

The CMB blackbody spectrum is too precise to be reproduced by dust thermalization
Surface brightness analysis of JWST data with proper k-corrections and sample selection remains consistent with ΛCDM
Has not produced a quantitative fit to the combined dataset of CMB, BAO, SNe, and large-scale structure

No observational evidence of large-scale matter-antimatter segregation or annihilation radiation has been found
Cannot account for the CMB's blackbody spectrum and anisotropies
Has been overshadowed by mainstream Big Bang cosmology with no demonstrated quantitative success on cosmological data

Key unresolved problem

The recycled-starlight problem: no amount of warming starlight on intergalactic dust, dust thermalization, can match the near-perfect even glow of the cosmic microwave background, measured to one part in ten thousand, without leaving telltale spectral distortions.

The missing glow problem: the model needs giant boundaries where matter meets antimatter and destroys it, producing telltale annihilation radiation, yet no trace of that gamma-ray signature has ever been seen.

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