Anyways... if you keep an open mind (and I do mean OPEN), then this is quite an entertaining theory.
Thanks for posting this - I'd never heard of
plasma cosmology and I did find it interesting, though unconvincing ("entertaining" is a good word choice). I wasn't personally able to verify or disprove anything the first half of the video, so it was fun enough. But about halfway through, they start talking about the Sun.
Those in the video are very impressed that the Sun's corona is so much hotter than the surface and suggest that the "extra energy" must therefore come from the galaxy itself. However, they fail to point out that the corona is only
one-billionth as dense as the surface region (photosphere), and while there's uncertainty as to the exact mechanism of energy transfer from surface to corona, no "energy from the galaxy" is needed.
Then they go on about how sunspots allow one to see into the interior of the Sun, but sunspots are dark, and thus the interior of the Sun must be cold. Um, no.
Sunspots are regions where magnetic activity impedes convection from the interior and are thus deprived of the heat from the interior and are therefore relatively colder (and thus relatively darker, though still blindingly bright).
Those two items (which seem like willful ignorance) were enough to call their entire scientific discussion into serious question. I also looked up
David Talbott, the head of this group. He's apparently a follower of
Velikovsky's ideas, which was a big, red flag on its own. But even the other Velikovskians seem to reject him. His previous big idea before this one, "The Saturn Myth," was pretty soundly disproved, so it looks like he and his group have moved on to greener pastures by stirring mythology, plasma cosmology, quantum physics, and whatever else was on the shelf into "Thunderbolts of the Gods."
Playing around with mythology is fine, even to the point of bringing in science to explain some of it. But it's a mistake to use mythology to reinterpret science (that leads to things like the laughable "Young Earth creationism"). Science already has a mechanism in place for new ideas: journals and peer review. That's the route which those attached to this project should be following. But instead, they only seem interested in selling their DVDs and books to the public (which is fine if they're sold as mythology/science fiction but not if sold as science).
