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Started 16 November 2023
Might what be shocking about dark energy is the failure to explain it?
December 2023 Sci Am has an article at page 62 by science writer Richard Panet, The Cosmic Surprise. Scientists discovered dark energy 25 years ago. They’re still trying to figure out what it is
The same article appears in Sci Am’s Space and Physics November 16, 2023: The Most Shocking Discovery in Astrophysics Is 25 Years Old A quarter of a century after detecting dark energy, scientists are still trying to figure out what it is.
Suppose instead, that dimensional capacity, a simple principle embedded but unnoticed in Galileo’s 1638 strength of materials scaling explains dark energy. The scaling principle is that scaling weight by exponent 3 requires the cross-sectional area of weight-bearing bone to get fatter by scaling by 3/2 relative to scaling of weight. Weight has 3/2 the dimension of area, area gets bigger by 3/2 disproportionately, so there is enough bone mass to support increased weight.
For dark energy, suppose the 4 dimensions of space + light motion results in 3D space getting fatter, so 3D radial distances are 4/3 of 4D distances.
As in :
Preprint Flowchart for deriving 4/3 scaling
If after 25 years, physics with all its modern mathematics, theories and technology has not figured out DE, maybe it's because physics cannot without a simple concept not yet part of conventional physics.
I suspect future generations will be mystified why this generation thought dark energy was shocking.
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Apart from space-time, are there any other mathematical models of physical phenomena using a fourth dimension?
Robert Shour
I searched yesterday and could not find any references, apart from hypercubes etc, to mathematical modeling using 4 dimensions other than my articles on arXiv and RG. That may explain why the role of 4/3 scaling has been unnoticed by physics.
I think a fourth dimension does play a role in modeling:
3/4 metabolic scaling.
Peto’s paradox
Brain weight scaling
4/3 fractal envelope of Brownian motion.
Clausius 1860 article on gas molecular mean path lengths.
Waterston on the energy to maintain a levitating elastic plane in a gravitational field (Roy Soc 1892 publication of 1845 submission).
Dark energy.
Are there any others?
Several articles on RG discuss 4/3 scaling, which involves the 4th dimension, including:
Preprint Dark energy modeled by scaling
Preprint Flow as a fourth dimension
and several other RG articles back to .
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A. Bejan, A. Almerbati and S. Lorente have concluded that `the economies of scale phenomenon is a fundamental feature of all flow (moving) systems, animate, inanimate, and human made’ (https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4974962).
The universe’s space everywhere flows — expands — outwards from its beginning. Economies of scale appear to arise in flowing systems. Is cosmogenesis an economy of scale phenomenon for the entire universe?
Are the physics of cosmogenesis and economies of scale the same?
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