Acceleration of cosmic expansion through huge cosmological constant progressively reduced by submicroscopic information transfer

Abstract

In a previous paper (Ref. 1), the presence of dark energy in our universe was explained as the fingerprint of a comprehensive, much older and expanding multiverse with positive spatial curvature, whose space–time is spanned by this energy, and which was created out of nothing. This concept is expanded by the addition of a model for explaining the decay of the mass density [Formula: see text] of dark energy from its origin until now by a factor of approximately [Formula: see text]. Elementary particles contain information about which laws of nature they obey, but not what exactly these are. Most likely, the laws are not followed by obedience to a categorical imperative. Rather, it is assumed, that from the very beginning the information about them is coded in submicroscopic patches of the space–time. The initial density [Formula: see text] is supposed to belong to the unimpaired cosmological constant obtained from elementary particle theory. Due to its huge value, it causes an extremely fast spatial expansion by which continuously new space–time elements are created. To them, the information about the physical laws must be transmitted from the already present space–time. This process needs time which with ever-increasing expansion velocity is getting scarcer and scarcer. It is concluded that this impedes the expansion through a friction-like process which can be described by a term proportional to the expansion velocity. This term is subtracted from the expansion acceleration. It is shown that the solutions thus obtained are also solutions of the cosmological standard equations employing a scalar field [Formula: see text]. In consequence, the present model can be considered as a reinterpretation of results which can be obtained with acknowledged methods.