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Line 2: [[Image:cosmic-triple-jump.gif|thumb|200px|[[Hannes Alfvén]] used [[Plasma scaling|scaling]] laboratory results to extrapolate up to the scale of the universe. A scaling jump by a factor 10<sup>9</sup> was required to extrapolate to the magnetosphere, a second jump to extrapolate to galactic conditions, and a third jump to extrapolate to the [[Hubble's law#Hubble length|Hubble distance]].<ref name=scaling>Hannes Alfvén, [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1983Ap%26SS..89..313A&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format=&high=4521318e0206333 "On hierarchical cosmology"] (1983) ''Astrophysics and Space Science'' (ISSN 0004-640X), vol. 89, no. 2, January 1983, p. 313-324.</ref>]] '''Plasma cosmology''' is a mostly rejected [[non-standard cosmology|non-standard cosmological]] model, whose central postulate is that the dynamics of ionized gases and [[plasma (physics)|plasmas]] play important roles in the physics of the universe beyond the [[Solar System]].<ref name=Peratt1992 >{{cite journal |authors=Anthony L. Peratt |title=Plasma Cosmology |journal=Sky & Telescope |year=1992 |month=February |url=http://plasmauniverse.info/downloads/CosmologyPeratt.pdf |accessdate=26 May 2012 }}</ref><ref name=statement>It was described as this in the February 1992 issue of ''Sky & Telescope'' ("Plasma Cosmology"), and by Anthony Peratt in the 1980s, who describes it as a "nonstandard picture". The [[Lambda-CDM model|ΛCDM model]] big bang picture is typically described as the "concordance model", "standard [[scientific model|model]]" or "standard [[scientific paradigm|paradigm]]" of cosmology [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=FIND+T+%22STANDARD+COSMOLOGICAL+MODEL%22 here], and [http://lanl.arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9505066 here].{{verify credibility|date=September 2012}}</ref><ref name=Alfven1990 >Alfven, Hannes O. G., "Cosmology in the plasma universe - an introductory exposition", ''IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science'' (ISSN 0093-3813), vol. 18, Feb. 1990, p. 5-10.</ref> [[Scientific consensus|Consensus]] by [[cosmology|cosmologists]] and [[astrophysics|astrophysicists]] strongly support that astronomical bodies and structures in the universe are mostly influenced by [[Gravitation|gravity]], [[Einstein]]'s [[theory of general relativity]] and [[quantum mechanics]], to explain the origin, structure and evolution of the universe on cosmic scales. Presently, plasma cosmology is openly rejected by the vast majority of researchers because it does not match modern observations of astrophysical phenomena or accepted cosmological theory. | |||