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author Eric D. Mize
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contents <p>This paper identifies the structural boundary at which the apparent observational equivalence between dark energy phenomenology and structural projection effects must fail. Within Möbius Cosmology, local cosmological inference can reconstruct an effective acceleration consistent with ΛCDM while remaining blind to global topology. That local degeneracy, however, cannot persist under tests that implicitly probe global consistency.</p> <p>The paper argues that once observations compare distant regions through large-scale transport, closure, and orientation coherence, a globally orientable bulk-Λ framework can no longer absorb the resulting inconsistencies without surrendering its own coherence assumptions. The issue is therefore not local fit quality, but structural necessity: either global transport is effectively path-independent, supporting global orientability, or it is not, forcing breakdown of bulk dark-energy explanations.</p> <p>The result is a clear falsifiability boundary. ΛCDM may remain locally successful as an effective approximation, but it cannot remain fundamentally complete if spacetime is globally non-orientable. This paper therefore marks the point at which the illusion of dark energy must break.</p>
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spellingShingle Where the Illusion of Dark Energy Must Break
Eric D. Mize
(4-(m-Chlorophenylcarbamoyloxy)-2-butynyl)trimethylammonium Chloride
Möbius Cosmology
dark energy
Lambda-CDM
ΛCDM
non-orientable spacetime
global topology
cosmological topology
global consistency
orientation coherence
path dependence
large-scale transport
closure tests
structural cosmology
apparent cosmic acceleration
effective cosmology
local inference
cosmological degeneracy
falsifiability boundary
transport around spacetime loops
orientation-sensitive observables
bulk degree of freedom
cosmological constant
global orientability
topology-first cosmology
geometric cosmology
structural failure of dark energy
<p>This paper identifies the structural boundary at which the apparent observational equivalence between dark energy phenomenology and structural projection effects must fail. Within Möbius Cosmology, local cosmological inference can reconstruct an effective acceleration consistent with ΛCDM while remaining blind to global topology. That local degeneracy, however, cannot persist under tests that implicitly probe global consistency.</p> <p>The paper argues that once observations compare distant regions through large-scale transport, closure, and orientation coherence, a globally orientable bulk-Λ framework can no longer absorb the resulting inconsistencies without surrendering its own coherence assumptions. The issue is therefore not local fit quality, but structural necessity: either global transport is effectively path-independent, supporting global orientability, or it is not, forcing breakdown of bulk dark-energy explanations.</p> <p>The result is a clear falsifiability boundary. ΛCDM may remain locally successful as an effective approximation, but it cannot remain fundamentally complete if spacetime is globally non-orientable. This paper therefore marks the point at which the illusion of dark energy must break.</p>
title Where the Illusion of Dark Energy Must Break
topic (4-(m-Chlorophenylcarbamoyloxy)-2-butynyl)trimethylammonium Chloride
Möbius Cosmology
dark energy
Lambda-CDM
ΛCDM
non-orientable spacetime
global topology
cosmological topology
global consistency
orientation coherence
path dependence
large-scale transport
closure tests
structural cosmology
apparent cosmic acceleration
effective cosmology
local inference
cosmological degeneracy
falsifiability boundary
transport around spacetime loops
orientation-sensitive observables
bulk degree of freedom
cosmological constant
global orientability
topology-first cosmology
geometric cosmology
structural failure of dark energy
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19345904