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Johnson, K.H. Quintessential Water from Cosmic Dust: A Possible Origin of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Life in the Universe. Preprints2023, 2023111084. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1084.v2
Johnson, K.H. Quintessential Water from Cosmic Dust: A Possible Origin of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Life in the Universe. Preprints 2023, 2023111084. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1084.v2
Johnson, K.H. Quintessential Water from Cosmic Dust: A Possible Origin of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Life in the Universe. Preprints2023, 2023111084. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1084.v2
APA Style
Johnson, K.H. (2024). Quintessential Water from Cosmic Dust: A Possible Origin of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Life in the Universe. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1084.v2
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Johnson, K.H. 2024 "Quintessential Water from Cosmic Dust: A Possible Origin of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Life in the Universe" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1084.v2
Abstract
The creation of protonated water nanoclusters from amorphous water-ice under laboratory conditions suggests the possible ejection of such nanoclusters from ubiquitous amorphous water-ice-covered cosmic dust to interstellar space. The quantum properties of these quintessential water entities introduce a tantalizing prospect that bridges the origins of dark matter, dark energy, and life in the universe. The quantum-entangled diffuse Rydberg electronic states inherent to cosmic water nanoclusters make them plausible candidates for baryonic dark matter. Moreover, they exhibit the capacity to absorb, through the microscopic dynamical Casimir effect, virtual photons originating from zero-point-energy vacuum fluctuations occurring above the water-nanocluster vibrational frequency cutoff. This selective interaction leaves only vacuum fluctuations below these frequencies with gravitational significance, cancelling the vacuum-energy catastrophe and yielding a shared genesis for dark matter and dark energy. Moreover, this theory extends its implications to the origins of life itself, proposing that RNA protocells on Earth and habitable exoplanets may have emerged from the interactions between cosmic water nanoclusters and prebiotic organic molecules, thus yielding an anthropic narrative. Collectively, these findings coalesce into a cosmological framework depicting a cyclic universe, with cosmic water nanoclusters constituting a quintessence scalar field, instead of adhering to the multiverse concept based on cosmic inflation theory. Recent observations of CMB birefringence support this quintessence.
Keywords
dark matter; dark energy; origin of life; cosmic dust; quintessential water
Subject
Physical Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics
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