Gnome astrophysicists were and are CLUELESS. For example, this article doesn’t even mention Birkeland currents. Perhaps the authors and astrophysicists whose work they describe don't even know what they are. Indeed, I wonder if papers like the following have even been taught at universities since the gnomists gained control of them …Still, in all the years of talk about the Hubble tension, it’s perhaps strange that no one considered magnetism before. According to Pogosian, who is a professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada, most cosmologists hardly think about magnetism. “Everyone knows it’s one of those big puzzles,” he said. But for decades, there was no way to tell whether magnetism is truly ubiquitous and thus a primordial component of the cosmos, so cosmologists largely stopped paying attention.
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