Re-examination of globally flat space-time

Area of Science:

• Cosmology
• Theoretical Physics
• Quantum Mechanics

Background:

• Current cosmological models invoke dark energy, dark matter, and dark flow to explain observed phenomena.
• These theoretical concepts lack direct observational evidence and present significant challenges in physics.

Purpose of the Study:

• To propose a novel approach to modeling cosmological observations by redefining inertial motion and reference frames.
• To provide an alternative explanation for phenomena attributed to dark energy, dark matter, and dark flow.
• To explore implications for the Pioneer anomaly and matter-antimatter asymmetry.

Main Methods:

• Redefining inertial motion and inertial frames of reference within flat spacetime.
• Treating objects as point-particles at large scales, with special and general relativity as local approximations.
• Utilizing geodesics in the radial Rindler chart to characterize redefined inertial motion.
• Quantizing a real scalar field within the redefined inertial systems.

Main Results:

• Successfully modeled observed effects attributed to dark energy, dark matter, and dark flow using only redefined inertial motion.
• Interpreted the Pioneer anomaly as supporting evidence for the redefined inertial motion.
• Found a potential explanation for the matter-antimatter asymmetry within the new theoretical framework.

Conclusions:

• The redefined concept of inertial motion offers a consistent explanation for several major cosmological puzzles.
• This approach eliminates the need for hypothetical dark components in cosmology.
• The theory has potential implications for both macroscopic gravitational systems and microscopic quantum phenomena.