One Lifetime Cannot Do It: Exponential Dissolution of a Large Vacuum Density Fails Nucleosynthesis and Today Simultaneously
If a once-large vacuum density dissolved exponentially with a single lifetime, that lifetime would be fixed by today's observed density and bounded above by nucleosynthesis. This paper computes both for initial densities at the Planck, electroweak, and QCD zero-point estimates. Matching today's 2.52 x 10^-47 GeV^4 from the Planck estimate requires a lifetime of 0.05 billion years, while nucleosynthesis permits at most 5.07 x 10^-3 seconds, a conflict by a factor of 3.09 x 10^17. The same conflict, at factors of 1.52 x 10^17 and 6.76 x 10^16, applies at the electroweak and QCD initial densities. Single-exponential dissolution is thereby excluded as a complete history. The paper computes from stated assumptions and reports no 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.24123749
- Primary Topic
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00