Where is the universe hiding its missing mass?
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This matters because the dynamics of plasma flow are punishingly complicated, and the mathematics describing it is intractable. It is complicated in large part because the positive charge carriers are thousands of times more massive than the common negative charges; the electrons respond nimbly to fields, while the nuclei go the other way, eventually, absorbing huge energies, released when charges reunite. The nuclei also collide with any neutral species, frequently ionizing them, slowed by them, but dragging them along.
So, there are few better ways to get oneself ostracized, among astronomers, than to so much as mention "plasma". Every single thing in the sky must be explained entirely with gravitation, which is better-behaved, mathematically, or shock waves, likewise.
But you only need look once at the Crab Nebula never to be able to un-see the turbulent flow that would be impossible in a gas at that pressure.
The rule is that a heavy body can have a magnetic field, but it doesn't do much of anything -- certainly not affect the motion of quadrillions of tons of nearby plasma, never mind be affected by them.
> But you only need look once at the Crab Nebula never to be able to un-see the turbulent flow that would be impossible in a gas at that pressure.
Just what "pressure"? Of what? Where? And near the Crab Nebula (the pictures are amazing) but how is that relevant, related, does correspond to the big flows or whatever of the OP?
> The rule is that a heavy body can have a magnetic field, but it doesn't do much of anything -- certainly not affect the motion of quadrillions of tons of nearby plasma, never mind be affected by them.
In the context of the OP and/or the Crab Nebula, what is the "heavy body"? For the Crab, that is the neutron star or black hole at the center of the nebula? For the filaments of the OP, what is the "heavy body"?
Related, the OP is talking about some really hot gas, difficult to see because it is nearly transparent to visible light. So, why doesn't that gas cool just by escaping photons? And, how did the gas get so hot to begin with? We're supposed to accept that the heat came from some quasars?
But recall, there is no gas. Plasma doesn't work like gas. In particular, you don't need heat to accelerate ions to relativistic speeds, and plasma doesn't need to be hot to radiate x-rays. It just needs to be, y'know. Accelerated.
On its surface it doesn't seem unreasonable.