THE END OF DARK COSMOLOGY: WHAT IF VACUUM GRAVITATES LOCALLY?

Ninety-five percent of the universe is missing. You didn't steal it, and neither did I. So, where is it?For a quarter century, the standard model of cosmology has told us that the cosmos is dominated by two invisible substances—dark matter and dark energy—that have never been detected, despite the most extensive and expensive searches in the history of science. Thousands of physicists. Billions of dollars. Not a single particle found.What if they were looking for the wrong thing?In The End of Dark Cosmology, Boris Kriger traces a twenty-year journey from a dinner argument with Nobel-caliber cosmologists at Harvard to a 568-page monograph containing nineteen peer-reviewed papers—all built on a single, startling question: what if the quantum vacuum gravitates locally?The vacuum has energy. Energy has mass. Mass gravitates. These are not speculations—they are established physics. Kriger shows that one assumption made in 1967—equating vacuum energy with the cosmological constant—was never a theorem. Remove it, and a simpler universe emerges: no new particles, no new forces, no free parameters. Just quantum chromodynamics, general relativity, and the fabric of empty space doing what the equations always said it must.Told as a detective story with humor and accessible metaphors—Swiss cheese, sour cream on a rubber membrane, beer foam—this book takes the reader from the Casimir effect to galactic rotation curves, from the cosmic microwave background to the James Webb Space Telescope, and from the quark structure of the proton to the philosophy of the block universe. No equations. No jargon. Just a chain of reasoning that any curious reader can follow.The full technical argument is available in Kriger’s monograph A Dark-Sector-Free Cosmology: Local Gravity of Quantum Vacuum (αLGQV), available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSP5LZLN.KEYWORDSvacuum energy • cosmology • dark matter • quantum gravity • galactic dynamics • cosmic structure • general relativity Read more