(Though this never got past a preliminary mad idea, and has much detail missing, I told Corpuscles I would post it.)
The Simple Electric Universe
A signature of a good theory is its simplicity. One of the participants at the London meeting concluded:
“I think the Electric Universe is actually very simple.
http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=wxse6f8q
Yes, that's the key, simplicity. The one thing that is missing, so far as I can see, with all the models I have looked at, is the lack of understanding of the mechanical aspects of the Birkeland current.The z-pinch model may explain some of the mechanism that leads to a black hole (or Sun), but to me, there is something missing. I can picture currents being squeezed together in the pinch, but then what? Is there a threshold where something I don't understand happens?
Trying to keep it simple, I add a couple of variations.
We can see the twist in observed large scale Birkeland currents, but what must accompany the twist? Use a piece of string or rope, and start twisting. What happens? Well, it will shorten. Apply tension and keep twisting, and bunching and knots will form. Vary the tension and see what happens. Try different thicknesses of string or rope. We have gravity affecting the experiment, but you will find you can create structures that look similar, very similar sometimes, to some of those we see in observed galactic scale currents.
So what happens when you have tension, is that you have a pinching. Think of the Chinese finger trap. When the tension is high, the center point will thin dramatically, so you have really two cones (vortices) meeting tip-to-tip.
With enough tension, the string will break. If we look at the Birkeland current, what will happen when the tips separate? There is a lot of energy wanting to go somewhere. We have created a gap, so what happens next? Tesla knew the importance of the gap. We produce a 'spark', a vacuum spark in this case. In lab experiments, they are observed to be tiny, spherical, and sometimes a few will appear, between the sharp electrode tips, like beads on a string. Sound familiar?
(The vacuum sparks, I believe, are due to a magneto-dielectric, or electro-magnetic dielectric breakdown of the energies stored in the vacuum, call it the aether if you like.) The flux tube is in effect a tensegrity structure, the ionised contents are a pulsed DC, longitudinal scalar. The gap/vacuum spark results in an amplification of the flux tube energies by allowing the stored Aetheric energies to be released. The spark now becomes a multi frequency spherical scalar wave emitter, and the 2 now separated electron vortices become wideband conical antennas, again pulse magnified.
Thus we have the creation of a structure powerful enough to form all the spheres and toroids (accumulators and accelerators) required to lead to the creation of matter. The black hole is the most powerful of these spark gap events, and the larger the galaxy surrounding it, the more powerful it is, or the longer it has been in operation, but if everything scales, then I believe it will be found that the Sun is a multilayer, spark gap powered charge
accumulator too. (I don't know if the SDO is capable of confirming this, but I hope it points in the right direction.)

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. -Buckminster Fuller