Most of the crevo people seem to have missed the thread on plasma cosmology the other day.
Item 15 was particularly interesting, noting that
"The cosmologists of the future will be electrical engineers!"
It turns out that most of the cosmos is governed by electrical and magnetic rather than gravitational forces and that we live in a little backwater which is an exception to the rule rather than the rule. When you see something in space which is roundish or amorphous, gravity is usually at work. When you see things like this:
then electromagnetic forces are at work.
There are numerous things out there which are clearly electromagnetic and not gravitational phenomena. In the case of the spiral galaxy above, the arms, particularly the upper arm, show material being held in a straight line until some point at which the field breaks down, after which material very quickly trails away and dissipates.
Again, this is obvious and nobody should need to be Albert Einstein to comprehend it. There is no conceivable way gravity could do something like that.
In the case of our own Earth in the recent past, antique literature describes a more active static electrical kind of world and you don't need to look terribly far to see evidence of major kinds of electrical effects. The fractal rilling and topography of the Grand Canyon, for instance, is precisely what you get when you run an arc welder to rocky ground and blast out channels. The idea of the Colorado river carving that canyon out of rock is a sick joke.