Equilibrium Of Intergalactic Currents In The Plasma Universe

Abstract

The plasma universe approach to the structure of the universe considers space to be filled with a network of currents which can undergo pinch compression. The equilibrium structures of such currents are treated in the same way as the structure of laboratory pinches. The difference, for the galactic case, is that gravitational interaction forces between the particles must be included into the analysis. Straightforward calculation shows that in equilibrium the energy of magnetic compression and gravitational compression must be exactly compensated by the energy of electrostatic repultion and kinetic energies of the charges. If gravitational energy is much smaller than the magnetic energy, we get balance of energies for relativistic pinch systems. In nonrelativistic limit the balance is reduced to the well known Bennet relation.