The Maher Cosmology: An Electromagnetic Shell Framework for Cosmological Structure, Orbital Mechanics, Tidal Phenomena, and Periodic Catastrophic Reset

The Maher Cosmology presents a unified cosmological framework proposing that Earth is a horn torus electromagnetic body (R=r=6,378km) with two inhabited surfaces, surrounded by concentric plasma shells, with buoyancy in the plasma medium replacing gravitational attraction as the primary organising force. The framework derives Kepler's Third Law from first principles using plasma medium density ρ(r)=ρ₀/r, reproducing all eight planetary orbital periods to a mean error of 0.042%. Six dark plasma discharge bodies are identified including Black Sun Prime and Black Moon as L3 co-orbital counterparts, BS-1 eccentric (30.8–35.3 AU) explaining the Jose and Suess cycles, a hidden body at 49 AU, the Eddy body at 100 AU, and BS-2 at 174 AU driving the Hallstatt cycle. Version 2.2 adds a Jupiter–Saturn resonance analysis: BS-1's outer period is directly identified with the Suess–de Vries cycle (0.1% match), and an independently-derived beat frequency between BS-1's two characteristic periods matches the Eddy cycle (919yr, within the 800–1,200yr observed range) without being fitted to it. All five outer dark bodies land within 0.6% of integer/half-integer Jupiter–Saturn resonance positions. A qualitative (not yet quantified) account of the Dalton Minimum timing anomaly is also presented. These results update the author's self-assessed internal-consistency confidence score from 92.5% to 98.0%, against a self-assessed Standard Model baseline of 44%. This score reflects internal pattern-matching across the identifications above; it is not an externally validated or peer-reviewed statistical result. Open items — Schumann κ=0.35 derivation from horn-torus geometry, BS-1 eccentricity quantification, and Bay of Fundy full-dataset validation — remain outstanding and are flagged as such in the addendum. Original submission: 10 June 2026. Version 2.1: 11 June 2026. Version 2.2: 5 July 2026.