Observational Evidence for Two Cosmological Predictions Made by Bit-String Physics [electronic resource].
Published
Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Research, 2001. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
A decade ago bit-string physics predicted that the baryon/photon ratio at the time of nucleogenesis η = 1 1/256⁴ and that the dark matter/baryonic matter ratio Ω{sub DM}/Ω{sub B} = 12.7. Accepting that the normalized Hubble constant is constrained observationally to lie in the range 0.6 < h₀ < 0.8, this translates into a prediction that 0.325 > Ω{sub M} > 0.183. This and a prediction by E.D. Jones, using a model-independent argument and ideas with which bit-string physics is not inconsistent, that the cosmological constant Ω{sub Λ} = 0.6 ± 0.1 are in reasonable agreement with recent cosmological observations, including the BOOMERANG data.