It’s all reasonable suppositions, based on their initial assumptions. But are their initial assumptions correct?
I think dark matter and dark energy are both hand waving to distract us from the fact that at a fundamental level, they really don't know squat. I'm not saying they are completely clueless, but it's clear that there are some seriously fundamental things that we simply do not know. While they are in the process of following those things up, why not admit outright that what we do know is merely an approximation of the universe, that is useful in the real world. i.e., we know enough about gravity to predict planetary orbits, and to send spacecraft to Pluto (which IS a planet), and to make use of atomic energy on a fairly primitive level, but we really, really don''t know how the universe actually works.
Here’s a thought - the cosmologists pretty much ignore everything but mass and gravity, under the assumption that electromagnetic forces cancel each other out, on the large scale. But do they?
We’ve invented dark matter because the gravity generated by the mass that we can see does not generate sufficient force to create the drive the movement that we see. Is it possible that rather than there being matter that we can’t see, that there are forces that we’re ignoring?
Are you a part of the electric universe FR ping list?
Nope.
Don’t really want to be.
I’m not at all certain that the plasma physics folks are right. I just think that the way the cosmologists keep having to invent more and more kludges to make their numbers work suggests that they’re missing something fundamental.
Remember Plato and his epicycles and his epicycles on epicycles. And Copernicus wasn’t any better. He still had circles and epicycles and epicycles. Then Kepler said ellipse, and suddenly everything was simple and elegant.
I have no expectation that the plasma physicists will be proven right. But I’m convinced that there’s a much simpler answer out there, and once someone finds it, everyone is going to be wondering why they missed it.