Standard cosmology assigns 27% of the universe to dark matter and 68% to dark energy, neither of them detected. The programme starts from three established facts: empty space has energy, energy has mass, and mass gravitates. The vacuum must gravitate; the question is how.
In 1967 Zel'dovich identified the cosmological constant with the vacuum energy density. The identification was adopted, never derived. Removing it, and letting the vacuum respond to matter locally, turns the missing mass into the weight of vacuum captured in gravitational wells — with a coupling measured in nuclear physics, not fitted.
The cosmological constant belongs to the field equations, the vacuum energy to quantum fields. Separating them dissolves the 10120 discrepancy. Only contrasts of the vacuum gravitate: a uniform vacuum pulls towards no point.
One action gives the Carrollian beginning, the vacuum's w = −1, Newton's constant from the pion and the relaxation of the vacuum. At the beginning the condensate is zero, and so is gravitation.
Separates Λ from the vacuum density and derives the vacuum–matter coupling from QCD.
Carries the programme to extreme densities and to the origin of the universe.
Sets the programme against the observations of the present decade.
A complex algebra for foundational physics built on one antilinear involution.
Confinement as closed topology; nuclei as multibaryon configurations.
A topological–dissipative method across ten physical scales, nucleon to cosmic web.
Information as the name of differentiatedness; the known measures as projections of one substrate.
The keystone: energy before form, one action, an observational manifesto.
Deconfinement in collapsing matter, above the density of the heaviest neutron stars.
| Quantity | Model | Observed | Vol. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vacuum–matter coupling αV | 0.0050 | 0.003 (growth) | I, VIII |
| Cosmological constant Λ₀ (m⁻²) | 1.8×10⁻⁵² | 1.1×10⁻⁵² | I |
| Baryon-to-photon ratio η = α⁴ | 6.20×10⁻¹⁰ | 6.12×10⁻¹⁰ | II |
| Muon mass | 105 MeV | 105.7 MeV | II |
| Tau mass | 1770 MeV | 1777 MeV | II |
| Captured ratio κ = ρcap/ρb | 5.38 ± 0.05 | from the peaks | VIII |
| Cluster baryon fraction | 0.157, all z | ≈ 0.156 | VIII |
| First temperature | 110–126 MeV | — | VIII |
| Curvature |ΩK| | ≤ 0.0031 | 0.0007 ± 0.0019 | VIII |
| Memory of the vacuum network τ | 7.7–8.7 Gyr | > 3 Gyr | VIII |
| dGW/dEM at z = 0.5 | 1.35–1.40 | Ξ₀ = 1.4+1.0−0.4 | VIII |
| Tensor-to-scalar ratio r | ≈ 0 | < 0.036 | VIII |