The purpose of this web site is to provide an introduction to the emerging Plasma Universe paradigm, and to explore some of the many far-reaching implications. A new view of a connected, fractal, and living universe is fast coming into focus. There is much more going on than the haphazard collision of matter posited by the Big Bang hypothesis.

Popular (consensus) science, for the most part, looks on the universe as electrically neutral and purely mechanical; a place where the weak force of gravity holds fort. Plasma Cosmology, by contrast, acknowledges the electrodynamic nature of the universe. Gravity and inertia are NOT the only forces at work.

The history of science, of course, is fraught with controversy. It is important to understand the situation today is no different, even if academia and an uncritical mainstream media opt to parrot orthodoxy.

While conventional astronomy maps magnetism, electric currents are excluded on the mistaken basis that they are of no significance in space.

Working from the inertia of this prior belief, astrophysicists have a tendency to talk in euphemisms. 'Electron rains' and 'clouds of ionized gas' are just two popular examples. From a conservative perspective these terms might seem easier to grasp than the behaviour of more ethereal plasma, but they are, nonetheless, obfuscations. In reality we are talking about electrodynamic phenomena.

It is important to understand that gravity based models were codified before space travel and high powered telescopes, when oil and gas provided lighting. Back then our galaxy, the Milky Way, was considered the entirety of the universe ... and electrically sterile! Instead of trying to shoehorn what we now see into old models, Plasma Cosmology respects the progress of the past, but is not constrained by it. Scientific theories, by definition, are vulnerable to being falsified. Science moves on.

"Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century..."
Hannes Alfvén, the Father of Plasma Physics and Plasma Cosmology

Plasma Cosmology has gone beyond hypothesis and analysis. There are problems with part three, of course, experimentation on universal scales, but the fact is that plasmas are highly scalable, and super-computing capabilities have enabled us to model plasma behaviours on galactic scales ... utilising only a few simple formulae. These models are consistent with reality. Big Bang cosmology, on the other hand, fails to adequately account for the 'clumpiness' and filamentary structures that we observe.

"Dark Matter and Dark Energy are the blank cheques required to postpone the falsification of bankrupt theories."
Thunderbolts Project

Plasma cosmology does NOT rely on abstract mathematical modelling or an increasing array of exotic hypotheticals like Dark Matter and Dark Energy!

The Milky Way galaxy pictured through a standard telescope, left, and a radio telescope, right, revealing its filamentary structure. No dark matter required.

"The underlying assumptions of cosmologists today are developed with the most sophisticated mathematical methods and it is only the plasma itself which does not 'understand' how beautiful the theories are and absolutely refuses to obey them." Hannes Alfvén

There is actually nothing very new about many of the ideas expressed on this site. At the beginning of the last century many leading scientists saw an improved understanding of electromagnetism as the way forward for astronomy and cosmology, and also the direction most likely to offer a better understanding of gravity. Today, most textbooks dismiss such notions out of hand. It is often claimed that because EM can be shielded, and gravity cannot, they must be unrelated. Furthermore, the force generated by a hand held magnet is often described as insignificant when compared with the gravity of the entire planet. Well, it would be, wouldn't it, much as it would make no sense to compare the strength of a small child with that of a mature elephant. We are talking apples and oranges. Nonetheless, such nonsense is all too often trotted out by textbooks, while the usual talking heads are paraded on television.

“… the underlying assumptions of cosmologists today are developed with the most sophisticated mathematical methods and it is only the plasma itself which does not ‘understand’ how beautiful the theories are and absolutely refuses to obey them.”
Hannes Alfvén

In the early 1900s science took a wrong turn. It is now a field dominated by mathematicians, not scientists, and as Hannes Alfvén — the father of Plasma Physics — pointed out time after time, plasmas stubbornly refuse to obey the elegant laws of mathematics.

"Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little." Bertrand Russell

"It is easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled." Anon

“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.” Nikola Tesla