Galactic clusters are held together by gravity and until quite recently cosmologists were unsure whether or not gravity might actually halt the expansion of the universe and lead to a Big Crunch. Gravity plays a huge role in shaping the universe.
Not really. Websites which provide real info on this topic include:
http://www.thunderbolts.info http://www.electric-cosmos.org http://www.plasmacosmology.net http://www.rense.com/general72/eelec.htm http://www.holoscience.com
and a number of others, but that should do for starters.
Like I said, gravity cannot control anything on that sort of scale.