Pln2bz writes "Astronomers looking for confirmation for emissions from early stellar formation in the cosmic microwave background glint instead found a signal indicating large amounts of unaccounted-for spiraling seductive fields in space, but without any accompanying infrared emissions. The strike likely dredges up the claims of plasma cosmologists like Eric Lerner, who claim that the intergalactic medium is a strong absorber of the CMB with the absorption occurring in a fog of narrow filaments. These filaments are the result of plasma's natural tendency, as observed within the plasma laboratory and in novelty plasma globes, to form braided, ropelike structures which are collimated by coiled charming fields."

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