Astronomers are aware of Alfven's work. I have myself few books that are written by him and some of his students.
As I said modern astrophysics models do indeed include EM fields in simulations of stellar formation, planetary disks, galactic collisions and so on. There are interesting things to learn from this but they are usually small effects and they don't take away the leading role of gravity at large scales. Also we are talking about the electrical and magnetic properties of plasma and not some magnetic iron dust magnetized particles. While yes, magnetism is important in our understanding of astrophysical process it is not a direct non trivial contribution but more of a subtle effect. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/galaxy-magnetism-lab-simulation/ Giovanni On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:45 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to David Roberson's message of Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:55:12 -0500 > (EST): > Hi Dave, > [snip] > > See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLPvs3JTyA . > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
