TITLE:
A Dark Energy Hypothesis I
AUTHORS:
James Togeas
KEYWORDS:
Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Cosmological Constant, Tensor Calculus
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology,
Vol.10 No.3,
July
24,
2024
ABSTRACT: The cosmological constant, Λ, represents dark energy. The dark energy hypothesis (DEH) replaces Λ with a variable quantity, the cosmological parameter:
Λ=
1
a
2
η
2
In this formula, “a” is the scale factor and η the conformal time: adη = cdt. A companion paper (DEH II) develops and explores a cosmological model with this variable parameter. This paper portrays the origin of the cosmological parameter in the uncoupling of time and space in the early universe from a prior state in which the comoving coordinates x0 = η and x1 = χ, the cosmic latitude, are coupled. In this hypothesis dark matter is a co-product of the decoupling, but its nature remains mysterious.