"Hourglass Figure" Points to Magnetic Field's Role in Star Formation - A Comment from Wallace Thornhill

A colleague reading the attached story has noted, "The hourglass shape is ubiquitous and fits the 'pinch' model. Unfortunately the mainstream model also expects an hourglass shape. How can we distinguish between the models?"

The answer is simple.The mainstream theory simply assumes, without explanation for its origin, that the magnetic field is "frozen in" to the molecular cloud. Hannes Alfvén, the father of modern plasma physics, made it clear that you cannot have a magnetic field "frozen in" to the plasma of the molecular cloud. But conventional theorists ignored his admonition and all of the evidence from plasma science showing that Alfvén was correct. So the mainstream model is based upon an invalid concept. It's just plain wrong and so are any predictions based upon it.

How can we distinguish between the models? To begin with, the compression of a dusty plasma in a plasma pinch can be demonstrated experimentally, the conventional model cannot. You will also notice that the gravitational/magnetic model has the magnetic field opposing collapse. The electrical model has the reverse situation where external Birkeland currents are forming the magnetic pinch. The magnetic pinch drives the collapse of the molecular cloud to form a star. Without it,
gravity is incapable of forming stars. As Alfvén stressed, the electrical circuit that generates the magnetic field must be taken into account. It is clear that, from the vantage point of plasma science, compression and star formation will be much more rapid, when driven electrically, than the invalid gravitational/magnetic theory would
suggest.

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