Thousands of scientists are currently studying the behaviour of the sun to predict space weather. Plasma and particle bursts can and have disrupted satellites, high-frequency radio communications, GPS systems and power grids, etc., and looking at the rather turbulent life our sun is presently leading, more is on the way. 

Most textbooks and literature about cosmology are completely out of date, so Rennison is informing people about why scientists studying space weather have had to abandon many of their former ideas. But the concept of an electromagnetic universe is already over a hundred years old, having been promoted by great Nobel Prize-winning minds like Hannes Alfvén. 

Rennison thinks it is essential to realise that during severe space weather events, uncontrolled electric currents will flow through virtually everything on the planet. It will not help to discuss quantum mechanics. It is more important for people to realise that in the bombardment of planet Earth we are also receiving dark energy and dark matter. 

Although scientists have tried to understand how this will affect the Earth, Rennison claims that the discussion of the astronomical impact is still based on an outdated point of view.