2026/07/16 by Keith Schneider · 1 voice
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
paper · doi:10.5281/zenodo.20596968
openalex created_date 2026/06/09 · openalex publication_date 2026/07/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/18
We postulate that geometry is quantized with a minimal length, and that the resulting curvature vacuum admits a gravitational analogue of the Schwinger process: above a Planckian curvature threshold it nucleates compensated curvature dipoles, each a compact positive-curvature well paired with a diffuse negative-curvature tower. Geodesic focusing binds the well and disperses the tower, so one production event yields both halves of the dark sector: wells behave as cold dark matter, towers as dark energy, and their abundances are tied at birth. The discharge cannot drive or end inflation, because its rate is self-extinguishing; we take inflation as standard and place production in rare high-curvature regions at its end. The framework's sharpest prediction is an effective dark-energy equation of state that is strictly but mildly phantom, rising from w\rm eff≈-1.17 at z=1 to w\rm eff(0)≈-1.01 today, arising from the accumulation bookkeeping of a two-component dark sector rather than from any phantom field. A Press-Schechter estimate of well consolidation, with a single threshold mass near 4×1011 M_\odot/h, reproduces both the observed dark-energy-to-dark-matter ratio and the acceleration onset at z≈0.6. The same units in the collapsed regime give a singularity-free black-hole interior. We state explicitly what is postulated, what is derived, and what remains open.