Call it what you wish, but plasmas are not gases. The presence of even a small amount of charged particles within a gas causes the entire gas to behave as a plasma -- subject to electromagnetic fields. The implications of this simple fact upon cosmology and astrophysics is difficult to over-estimate. Subtract out this error, build up a cosmology based upon laboratory plasma physics in its place, and you will find that the theory can accommodate *all* of our observations of space w/o the need to postulate invisible theoretical entities like dark matter and dark energy (which are currently claimed to represent 95% of the universe). It's the underlying premise that gravity is the universe's dominant force, causing the rotational characteristics of galaxies, which is the reason why invisible theoretical entities must be conjured up in the first place. That's because gravity is 10^39 times weaker than the electric force. Supercomputer simulations and laboratory experimentation by Anthony Peratt demonstrate without a doubt that the rotational characteristics of galaxies naturally result from the behavior of (electromagnetic) plasmas within the laboratory. In other words, we will never find dark matter because there is no dark matter. Galactic motions are simply the result of electromagnetic forces, and it is this erroneous inference which led us to believe in dark matter to begin with.Yes, our solar system appears to completely confirm a gravity-centric cosmology. But, that shouldn't necessarily surprise us. Were our solar system more electrically active, the planet would also likely be less hospitable. This is the catch-22 that the universe has handed us with (there is a similar catch-22 pertaining to why we can't track down alien life, but that requires a more in-depth understanding of plasma physics). Within plasma-based cosmologies, gravity is merely a side-effect of electromagnetism, and bodies in space can possess and even trade electrical charges. Everything we witness of stellar births (such as their tendency to form like beads on a string) confirms an electrical plasma physics explanation. And as researchers attempt to force gravity to form stars, their models look increasingly similar to stellar birth in a plasma-based cosmology (but they pretend as though the matter does these things w/o electricity). In a plasma cosmology universe, there will be pockets of plasma where gravity appears to dominate electromagnetism. We should not permit this to confuse us into believing that gravity is dominant everywhere.Furthermore, once you look at scales of the universe much larger than the solar system, the cosmic plasma's tendency to form filaments becomes increasingly apparent. Filaments are far too common to be explained away with dismissive stories about supernova remnants, and so on. And within the laboratory, we observe that plasmas *naturally* form filaments, which conduct electricity to limitless distances.The implications of correcting this single mistake in the sciences will launch all of the natural sciences into a far more productive direction. We must apply laboratory plasma physics to cosmic plasmas in order to correct these mistakes. Surprisingly, astrophysicists will happily argue against this claim, as they defend their educations. But we don't employ astrophysicists to defend a particular cosmology; we pay them to search for the truth. The problem is that we are teaching our physics PhD's *what* to think rather than *how* to think. They assume that the Big Bang Theory is true, and then wonder where all of the matter is in the universe. They should be questioning the Big Bang Theory as well.And it's not that these huge cosmological problems are too complex for humans to resolve, but rather people are thinking that they can solve these problems by reading the same exact materials as everybody else. People are constraining their reading selection to exclude against-the-mainstream objections (for instance, holoscience.com). In other words, people are simply refusing to get a second opinion on what our cosmologists and astrophysicists are trying to convince us of. Authors like Phil Plait are part of the problem, as they frequently invite the public to imagine that the universe behaves according to the rules of *gases* instead of plasmas. Even the mathematical models for the universe's plasmas are currently constructed such that the astrophysicists have effectively removed the plasma's electrical characteristics.There have been numerous moments in history when the problem should have been noticed. But, astrophysicists are extremely dogmatic and territorial. They don't take kindly to outsiders (which surprisingly includes even some Nobel laureate and Lawrence Livermore plasma physicists) trying to correct their plasma models. For many years, in fact, they rejected the notion that galaxies even had magnetic fields. And even though magnetic fields were observed by 1986 to be associated with galaxies, their models still cannot explain how these magnetic fields came to exist w/o resorting to "new physics".Within every other discipline of science, magnetic fields result from electric currents. The two go hand-in-hand. And yet, within astrophysics, electrical currents are the one explanation for the magnetic fields which astrophysicists *refuse* to consider. By denying funding to papers which discuss cosmic plasmas and electricity in space, the astrophysical discipline has not only effectively kept the public ignorant of what a plasma is. They've also managed to successfully direct funding to gravity-based cosmology, to the detriment of the creation of more predictive cosmologies. And thus, every week, we see scientists express surprise with new observations. As the details improve, and we start to see the actual birth of stars and planets, it will become increasingly difficult for astrophysicists to cling to their models. But, this could still be 20 or 30 years into the future. And in order for the public to recognize that they're not getting their money's worth here, people are going to have to learn what a plasma is. Only by learning how plasmas behave in the laboratory can we realize that cosmic plasmas are behaving as laboratory plasmas. It's really that simple.