The trouble with Plasma Cosmology is the same thing that all cosmologies other than the BB suffer from: they don't predict observed phenomona, such as elemental abundances, or the isotropic Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, or the observed small anisotropies in the CMBR.
The BB cosmology, especially the Inflationary varient, handles all of them beautifully.
I knew I could count on you to put things in proper perspective! (grin)
How does it handle the acceleration (unless you are refering to that in the "inflationary varient") found in the red shift the farther you get? Quite frankly, lately, the Plasma Cosmologists have been doing a lot better at predictions than have the BB Cosmologists. The BB cosmologists are constantly being surprised by things the Plasma cosmologists have predicted.
The BB people have had to create unobserved and unfounded dark matter and dark energy to tweak their theory into fitting the observations. We have now arrived at the point where, for their theories to hold together, better than 95% of all matter and energy must be "dark". They have now added another unknown to the equation... an anti-gravity force of some sort to account for the observed accelerations in red shift data.
Just recently, Plasma theorists made 24 specific predictions on the Deep Impactors encounter with Tempel 1... and the results were 24 correct, right on the money. On the other hand, Astronomers were astounded, shocked, and stunned at the results that DID NOT comport to their predictions.
They are having to re-consider all of what they thought they knew about the composition of comets. But they are doing so very reluctantly... So far they have stopped referring to them as "Dirty Snowballs" and switched to "Snowy Dirtballs"... but even that is being dropped as they are not finding enough water (only .005% of what was expected AND required for water vapor ablation to make up the coma and tail) and the knowledge that some comets support a spherical coma that is 350,000,000 (3.75 AU) in diameter! Now, in light of the Tempel/Impactor findings, they have switched to the idea that the water, instead of being on the surface, is buried deep inside the comet and the sun heats the entire comet sufficiently to boil the water to vapor which escapes through cracks and vents making geysers... despite the sheer amount of cometary mass that would have to be heated by sunlight at distances beyond Jupiter (where the cometary tails start to appear) to achieve any boiling...
Exactly which BB Cosmologist predicted the hundreds of Herbig Haro Objects, the "jetted stars"? And what BB Cosmological principle can explain how an object such as these, light years in length, can retain their tornado like shape and spiraling internal structures merely through inertia and gravity? Is there a rope of Dark matter stretching out in the center of the spiral clouds eminating from the HHO?
By-the-way, Longshadow, which is it... is CMBR isotropic or is it anisotropic??? They are somewhat antithetical, don't you think?