The "plasma theory," which rejects the big bang theory, is a recent and controversial concept of cosmology. Swedish Nobel laureate Hannes Olof Göst Alfvén is the chief proponent of the theory. He and his colleagues discredit the big bang theory in favor of electrical and magnetic processes involving plasma (hot electrical conducting gases). While the big bang cosmologists claim over 90 percent of the universe is invisible, primarily composed of dark matter, plasma theorists believe 99 percent of the matter is composed of plasma. The big bang universe is based solely on terms of gravity, using Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity; the plasma theory is based on electromagnetism.

Electrical currents in the plasma interact with each other to produce swirling filaments. These filaments concentrate matter and makes it clump together, which increases the swirl, which causes more matter to clump, and so forth...