An electric star wouldn’t begin with a molecular cloud. It would begin with charge separation. Everything we see in the universe, with the possible exception of a few specks of planets and reflection nebulas, is ionized to some degree.
It’s a PLASMA, the fourth and dominant state of matter. Positive ions and negative electrons move, and because protons are a few thousand times more massive than electrons, any force–electrical, magnetic, gravitational, even mechanical–can cause some separation of charges.
An immeasurably small surplus of one electron or proton in a volume of cubic meters is what’s necessary for a weak electric field to exist in deep space. That electric field drives an electric current, which generates a magnetic field that interacts with the fields of other currents.
Science critic Mel Acheson explains why it’s the Gravity Universe, not the Electric Universe, that’s impossible.
