Duality, dark matter and the cosmic clock

How do we know that the CMB photons originate in the early universe? We discuss the possibility of their origin from mirror neutrino annihilation and suggest an experimental test of this hypothesis. This essay was not written for any competition on the subject of gravity. Despite its remarkable success, it should be noted that the standard ΛCDM cosmology is largely an empirical affair, with no foundational explanation for dark matter, dark energy and a host of astrophysical phenomena. Given today’s certainty that nature is quantum, a new picture of our universe should incorporate quantum principles beyond their current implementation at small, strictly local scales. This is especially true given that the Standard Model of particle physics is itself no longer written in terms of local observables. The breaking of locality is on most solid ground in the dualities of information theoretic M theory [1][2], where the quantum entanglement of qubits encodes the correspondence between small and large scales. When quantum operators are considered prior to spacetimes, there is the possibility of respecting the observer dependence that we require. Every observation carries its experimental constraints, but the difficulty is in understanding how to encode those constraints for macroscopic questions. The simplest non local scenario mixes only the smallest and the largest scales, namely high energy locality and cosmological boundaries. As an observer, the human Earth looks back to the surface of last scattering, interpreting every photon by the redshift observed in distant spectral light. But what do we actually see? The apparent lack of isothermal modes in initial cosmic perturbations indicates that number density parameters are independent of spatial extent. The perfect black body behaviour of the CMB, in the adiabatic mode, describes the random distribution of many bosonic