Why The Name Of My Framework Had To Change

Last November I came up with a cosmology idea that I wanted to model and test. The only problem was, I had no idea at the time which family of mathematics it should belong to. Since I was initially suggesting that baryons spread across smooth spacetime were contributing gravitational ripples over cosmic timescales (the Ripplefield), the first option was to try a geometry-based model. However after a few weeks, it was clear that it wasn’t capturing all of the behaviours that I was trying to incorporate and so I looked to other ideas, briefly testing reaction-diffusion and Hydrodynamics.

I kept coming back to a wave equation because it felt right for many reasons and specifically had the propagation that the reaction-diffusion version wasn’t providing, but my concern was not being able to replicate Newtonian gravity. However, once the full equation was established, a test did produce a Newtonian gravity-like inward pressure, in addition to the outward flux propagation that I had been looking for. So from that point on, this became my canonical framework.

This left a dilemma with the name, especially as I discovered that another entropic model was using a similar name and there was confusion when searching for mine.

And so the new name, Modal Coherence Field (MCF), has been chosen. Not only does it represent the direction that the research is currently heading in, but by a happy coincidence, Modal has been my brand name for some time (from Modal jazz initially).

It’s going to take some getting used to after nine months, but it’s growing on me already.

The Source Equation (ESF)

This week we get to the first underlying equation in The Entropic Spacetime Field – the source equation.

The premise is that baryonic oscillations throughout spacetime are contributing gravitational ripples that build up over cosmological scales and this idea seemed to be supported in theory by the early baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) in plasma era universe.

Another consideration was whether quantum and classical could be linked via quantum-level oscillations and a bridge equation linking to macroscopic wave behaviour. This derivation will be future work, although I did try out the bridge equations for photons out of sheer curiosity and was encouraged by the result.

As the framework developed, coherence was introduced as the amplification mechanism – the whole framework is pretty much derived from audio physics, with the amplification and feedback mechanisms ‘kicking in’ in regions of increased density.

So my future work in this area involves the question “What mathematic machinery would I start with when deriving the quantum-to-classical bridge for collective baryon excitations?”.

A new short is being released every week to introduce the framework and then to deep dive into the benchmark tests and tesnions that it’s being pitted against (can’t wait to share the results on black holes! Sign up to the newsletter to stay posted on updates, or drop me a comment on the YouTube short)

The full paper can be downloaded at Zenodo DOI:21433778.
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The Entropic Spacetime Field Wave Equation

The Entropic Spacetime Field (ESF) explores whether gravity, cosmic structure and cosmic expansion can emerge from one underlying wave mechanism.

The original concept – that baryons are present throughout spacetime, even in ‘smooth’ regions and are collectively contributing to a gravitational ‘Ripplefield’ over cosmological timescales. Baryonic oscillations generating waves, these waves enforcing one another, propagation, transport.

I kept feeling that a wave equation was the correct answer for what I was attempting to model, but it’s only when I realised that Newtonian gravity and propagation could be achieved from one single mechanism that it all started to fall into place.

New short videos are released each week as the framework develops and will cover all of the various benchmark tests that the framework has been pitted against so far, with some upcoming deep dives on the various tensions that modern cosmology is currently facing, including Bullet cluster, singularities and redshift, and how ESF fares in these tests.

Future Research Path

One of the main tests that I’ll be looking to carry out over the coming weeks is evolving from our plasma-era starting state into post-recombination era and early structure – one continuous, smooth process.

The paper outlining the framework and showing the initial batch of results can be downloaded at Zenodo DOI:21433778
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