THE MALTA COSMOLOGY TEMPLATE



Chapter 04 - Darkenergy






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SELFPROOF 0402 - THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT

CURRENT PARADIGM

  • THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT (usually denoted by the Greek capital letter lambda: Λ) is the value of the energy density of the vacuum of space. It was originally introduced by Albert Einstein in 1917 as an addition to his theory of general relativity to "hold back gravity" and achieve a static universe, which was the accepted view at the time. Einstein abandoned the concept after Hubble's 1929 discovery that all galaxies outside the Local Group (the group that contains the Milky Way Galaxy) are moving away from each other, implying an overall expanding universe. From 1929 until the early 1990s, most cosmology researchers assumed the cosmological constant to be zero. Since the 1990s, several developments in observational cosmology, especially the discovery of the accelerating universe from distant supernovae in 1998 (in addition to independent evidence from the cosmic microwave background and large galaxy redshift surveys), have shown that around 68% of the mass–energy density of the universe can be attributed to dark energy. While dark energy is poorly understood at a fundamental level, the main required properties of dark energy are that it functions as a type of anti-gravity, it dilutes much more slowly than matter as the universe expands, and it clusters much more weakly than matter, or perhaps not at all. The cosmological constant is the simplest possible form of dark energy since it is constant in both space and time, and this leads to the current standard model of cosmology known as the Lambda-CDM model, which provides a good fit to many cosmological observations as of 2016.  (Wikipedia - 16 May 2016)
MALTA TEMPLATE
  • 0103-01:     That every graviton attracts every other graviton in the Universe at a rate proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. 
  • 0103-04:     That every gravitonpair has energy which is the movement its gravitons, due to their mutual gravitypull
  • 0403-05:     That until 5 billion years ago the expansion rate of the Universe's blackhole core progressively decelerates. 
  • 0403-06:     That from 5 billion years ago the expansion rate of the Universe's blackhole core progressively accelerates.  
COMMENTARY

Albert Einstein's cosmological constant was an artificial antigravity that aligned his Theory of General Relativity with then current paradigm which was that the Universe was eternal and infinite. That it was so easily removed from General Relativity, once it became obvious that it was unnecessary, only serves to emphasise its artificiality.

The modern version of the cosmological constant is also an antigravity but on a more parochial scale. Due to its gravitypull, the rate of the expansion of the Universe began decelerating at Moment Zero and should be still decelerating today. Observations, however, suggest that 5 billion years ago the expansion rate began to accelerate. To account for this, the cosmological constant idea has been resurrected, suggesting that the whole of space is infused with "vacuum energy".

Although the modern version of the cosmological constant is as theoretical as Einstein's was, it has a more substantial scientific underpinning and is used to explain unrelated, experimentally observed, phenomena like spontaneous emission, the Casimir Effect, and the Lamb Shift.

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The Malta Template describes the evolution of the Universe from Moment Zero to the present day, incorporating all the confirmed darkenergy observations without any need for a device like the cosmological constant. In the Template it is the gravitypull of the Universe's gravitonocean and the gravitonosphere that powers its currently increasing expansion rate.

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It is interesting that, in seeking to explain the increasing expansion rate of the Universe, a hypothetical vacuum energy was proposed - interesting because it is also found in the Malta Template albeit carrying other names. It has nothing to do with the Universe's increasing expansion rate but its existence does help explain other observed phenomena. Consider these parameters:  
In the Current Paradigm, the vacuum of space has measures of energy which are beyond our ability to detect directly but which can in some circumstances be brought into "our" Universe.

In the Malta Template, the vacuum of space is filled with gravitonpairs which are beyond our ability to detect directly but the energy of which can in some circumstances be brought into "our" Universe.

Effectively, the vacuum energy which powers the modern cosmological constant, and the gravitonpairs which are the fundamental energy of the Universe, are different descriptions of the same thing - and reconciling the two is more a matter of having the desire to do so than of having to overcome enormous obstacles.  







Comments and suggestions:  peter.ed.winchester@gmail.com

Copyright 2013 Peter (Ed) Winchester



REVISIONS

30 Jun 2014 - page revised to 3-section format.
25 May 2015 - Major revisions to layout, content, and numbering.
14 May 2016 - Revisions to layout and content.

22 Apr 2017 - change teels to gravitons.