How Much Supercooling Survives a Maximum Density? Vacuum Domination Without Runaway
At a critical temperature of 100 GeV the vacuum density is only 8.38e-29 of the ceiling. Even complete vacuum domination in that epoch uses a negligible share of the permitted energy budget, and arbitrarily prolonged supercooling, were the tunnelling rate to allow it, would not bring the total near the bound. At a critical temperature of 10^8 GeV the share has risen to 8.38e-05, still small but twenty-four orders of magnitude larger, tracing the T^4 scaling. Only for critical temperatures within a few orders of magnitude of the ceiling temperature, 1.05e+09 GeV, does the vacuum share approach unity and the bounded budget become the operative constraint on how a supercooled history can be written. This study is simulated and computed from stated assumptions; it is not a measurement.
Authors
- William Alexander Aldred (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1215-577X)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-11-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24145374
- Primary Topic
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00