The Mysterious Dark Energy

TL;DR

This paper revisits the ancient concept of Aether, proposing a quantum vacuum-based cosmological model that predicts dark energy-driven acceleration and explains large number coincidences, aligning with observations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel cosmological model based on quantum vacuum and Aether concepts, explaining dark energy and large number coincidences without ad hoc assumptions.

Findings

Predicted accelerating universe with small cosmological constant

Derived large number coincidences from the model

Aligned theoretical predictions with observational data

Abstract

The concept of an all pervading Aether is age old, and contrary to popular belief, it survived the twentieth century too though with different nuances. Using this concept of a background Quantum Vacuum, the author in 1997 proposed a cosmological model with some resemblance to the Dirac cosmology, which correctly predicted a dark energy driven accelerating universer with a small cosmological constant, as was subsequently confirmed by observation in 1998. Moreover the so called Large Number coincidences including the mysterious Weinberg formula are deduced in this theory, rather than being ad hoc. We examine the concept of Aether in this context and indicate how this dark energy may be harnessed.