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A Brief History of Cosmology

Richard Moore

July 11, 2026

“It’s electrical forces—all the way up, and all the way down.”

~ Richard Moore

Movie of the Week

A Brief History of Cosmology

Richard Moore

If you haven’t yet dived into Future Science Series host Ulrike Granögger’s masterful Living Plasma report (Solari’s 2025 Annual Wrap Up), this video on the Electric Universe by independent writer-researcher Richard Moore might whet your appetite.

Cosmology—the study of the nature of the universe—is a big topic, but in a short 20 minutes, Moore lives up to the promise of his title, providing “a brief history of cosmology.” The first five minutes review the series of failed paradigms that eventually gave birth to what Moore describes as the “robust” Electric Universe model of cosmology, with the remainder of the video providing an overview of plasma and related topics.

Moore does not hesitate to poke fun at the “dutiful” adherents of the Standard Model of Cosmology, noting that they have clung to their model for centuries despite growing recognition of its incompatibility with the laws of physics and an utter lack of evidence for hypothesized phenomena like the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, and black holes. Moore comments:

What do scientists do when their paradigm fails? According to the scientific method, they are obliged to return to the drawing board and reconsider their assumptions, but long-held assumptions die hard. Rather than questioning their cosmological paradigm, scientists retreated into magical thinking…. Every time the standard model encountered something it couldn’t explain, they conjured up yet another impossible solution.”

The Stanford-educated Moore, who worked in the software industry for 30 years before cutting loose to Ireland, says he became a writer (posting at his cyberjournal blog) to question conventional narratives and understand how the world really works. In recent years, his explorations have tackled science’s “state of crisis” and the “amazing breakthroughs … by groups of independent researchers who are being ignored by mainstream scientists.”

If you want to learn more about concepts such as Birkeland currents and Z-pinches—and the remarkable fact that the universe is 99% plasma—Ulrike’s Living Plasma report and her interview with Robert Temple are logical next steps.

You can watch Richard Moore’s A Brief History of Cosmology here.

Links

Richard Moore: A Brief History of Cosmology | Thunderbolts

rkm’s cyberjournal

Science in Crisis

Richard Moore: The Pulsating Universe and Planet Earth | EU2015

Related at Solari

Living Plasma

Future Science Series: A Conversation about Plasma with Robert Temple

Book Review: A New Science of Heaven by Robert Temple

Book Review: Charged by Gerald Pollack

Is the Universe Alive and Intelligent? with Dr. Joseph P. Farrell


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