A democratic Cosmos?

TL;DR

This paper explores philosophical principles to address key challenges in cosmology, proposing that integrating these principles can lead to new insights or solutions for issues like singularities and cosmic acceleration.

Contribution

It introduces three philosophical principles to guide improvements in cosmological theories and assesses their potential to resolve fundamental cosmological problems.

Findings

Proposes the Copernican Principle for Scales, the Heterarchical Principle, and the Irreversibility Principle.

Suggests these principles can explain, resolve, or reframe cosmological challenges.

Provides a philosophical framework for advancing cosmological theories.

Abstract

Despite the success of our best models in Theoretical Physics, especially concerning Cosmology and Particle Physics, we still face persistent challenges. Among them we have the cosmological singularity problem, understanding the late-time acceleration of the Universe, and comprehending the fundamental nature of time. We believe relevant new insights to tackle each of these issues may be found in the Philosophy of Cosmology. We elaborate on three philosophical principles that shall guide us on how to improve our current theories. They are the Copernican Principle for Scales, the Cosmological Heterarchical Principle and the Cosmological Principle of Irreversibility. Following these principles, and using some of our current physical theories as a proxy to implement them, we consider a new assessment of each of these challenges, and show how they may be either explained away, hinting towards new physics, or summarized in a new philosophical principle.