The Non-Local VacuumA Framework for New Physics

This presentation describes a model of cosmology that: automatically eliminates the cosmological constant problem; provides a framework for new physics to resolve the measured H₀ tension; predicts the existence of cosmic inflation with an e-fold volume expansion, N, of about 61; and, makes room for a non-local physical reality as the seat of quantum entanglement. The basic framework of this model is that the big bang singularity represents the opening up of a white hole whose interior is non-local vacuum that expands as the event horizon expands. In this framework it is the quantized event horizon (the vacuum horizon) that is the actual source of spacetime (gravity) and matter/energy and not the singularity or original Planck region. The horizon expansion parameters are derived using the Holographic Principle, the Schwarzchild solution, the published data on the total amount of information/entropy in the observable (local) universe (S ≈ 5x10¹⁰⁴ bits) and the assumption that the virtual energy density of the vacuum ρ_vac ≈ ρ_crit. This derivation requires there to be ≈ 4x10¹⁶ Planck sized entangled qubits in the non-local vacuum for every bit of the horizon (local reality). This ensemble of qubits has a Schwarzchild volume of ∼ 10⁻⁷⁸m³ leading to the prediction of N ≈ 61. The assumption of ρ_vac = ρ_crit leads to a prediction of the Hubble constant that is within 0.7σ of the Planck collaboration measurement. The model value for H₀ agrees perfectly with the SH0ES team measurement with the assumption that ρ_vac = 1.19 ± 0.05ρ_crit.