2010/04/08 by Paul H. Frampton, Paul Howard Frampton, Frampton, Paul Howard
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1004.1285
openalex publication_date 2010/04/08 · arxiv created 2010/09/13 · arxiv updated 2010/09/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
I discuss a solution to the dark energy problem, which arises when the visible universe is approximated by a black hole, in a quasi-static asymptotically-flat approximation. Using data, provided by WMAP7, I calculate the Schwarzschild radius rS and compare to the measured physical radius of the visible universe, bounded by the surface of last scatter. The ratio, ε(t0) = r/rS is found to be comparable to ε= 1, as allowed by the holographic principle. The measurement of a shift parameter, σ, introduced by Bond, Efstathiou and Tegmark in 1997, plays an important role in the accuracy of the calculation. The approximation leads to a surprisingly small discrepancy, presumably explicable by the de Sitter, and expanding, nature of the actual universe.