Nobel Prize in Physics 2011

A trio of scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics on Oct 4, 2011. Their discovery implied that the universe was expanding at an accelerating rate. This phenomenon is best explained by the concept of dark energy which is thought to make up 73% of the material in the universe. Dark matter accounts for 23% and visible matter constitutes the remaining 4%. Trouble is neither dark matter or dark energy has been identified. They are placeholders required to save the Big Bang theory from a radical re-write. Not unlike the mythical Higgs boson of particle physics and its massless cousin the dilaton. These particles are required to explain the rapid expansion (inflation) of the early universe that a modified Big Bang theory requires to overcome the objection that there are objects in the universe that would require more than the 13.7 billion years attributed to the age of the universe to develop.
The Higgs boson is being sought with the assistance of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and the Tevatron outside Chicago. These machines are particle accelerators which fling bits of matter at each other and the resulting collisions are analyzed for more fundamental particles in the resulting explosion. These machines work by accelerating particles via electromagnetic forces.
We know that the electromagnetic force is 39 times as powerful as the force of gravity upon which the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe is predicated. It is interesting to note that the electromagnetic force is not considered for the role of the accelerator in the supposed accelerated expansion of the universe. That would eliminate the need for the heretofore undetected dark energy.
Is there another explanation? See here.
In a universe powered by electrical plasma currents dark matter, dark energy, the Higgs boon and the dilaton would not be required. But an abandonment of the Big Bang theory might follow the exploration of the Electric forces at play in the universe. Does plasma physics hold the answers to cosmological puzzles? We live in interesting times.