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Another cosmology that has been getting a lot of attention lately is plasma cosmology. The original theory was formulated by Oskar Klein of the University of Stockholm, and Hannes Alfvén of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, but in recent years it has been modified considerably by Alfvén alone. It is an interesting but controversial theory, and at the present time it is far from complete.

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Parker, B. (1993). Plasma Cosmology. In: The Vindication of the Big Bang. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5980-5_15

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