A Conceptual Framework for Emergent Spacetime
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| author | Thys, Albert Jean H |
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| contents | <p>We present a speculative but structured cosmological framework in which visible matter<br>is not taken to be the primary substance of the universe, but rather a later thermal<br>byproduct of an earlier and more fundamental dark-sector evolution. The central idea is<br>that spacetime itself emerges from an initially undifferentiated primordial state, after which<br>the components later interpreted as dark energy, dark matter, and geometric gravity differentiate<br>as effective modes of that unfolding. As the universe expands and cools, the thermal<br>and configurational state of the underlying sector changes, potentially inducing transitions<br>in the effective behavior of gravity and dark matter before the visible sector appears through<br>standard symmetry-breaking and confinement processes. We organize the proposal around<br>core postulates, temperature-ordered cosmological checkpoints, energy-density bookkeeping,<br>entropy-based interpretation, and a minimal mathematical language suitable for future refinement.<br>The paper is intended as a conceptual framework rather than a completed theory;<br>explicit dynamical equations, ultraviolet completion, and observational tests remain to be<br>developed.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | A Conceptual Framework for Emergent Spacetime Thys, Albert Jean H <p>We present a speculative but structured cosmological framework in which visible matter<br>is not taken to be the primary substance of the universe, but rather a later thermal<br>byproduct of an earlier and more fundamental dark-sector evolution. The central idea is<br>that spacetime itself emerges from an initially undifferentiated primordial state, after which<br>the components later interpreted as dark energy, dark matter, and geometric gravity differentiate<br>as effective modes of that unfolding. As the universe expands and cools, the thermal<br>and configurational state of the underlying sector changes, potentially inducing transitions<br>in the effective behavior of gravity and dark matter before the visible sector appears through<br>standard symmetry-breaking and confinement processes. We organize the proposal around<br>core postulates, temperature-ordered cosmological checkpoints, energy-density bookkeeping,<br>entropy-based interpretation, and a minimal mathematical language suitable for future refinement.<br>The paper is intended as a conceptual framework rather than a completed theory;<br>explicit dynamical equations, ultraviolet completion, and observational tests remain to be<br>developed.</p> |
| title | A Conceptual Framework for Emergent Spacetime |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19794395 |