Developing Configurational Dispersal Cosmology (CDC), a testable alternative to dark energy, with ongoing numerical implementation using CAMB and MCMC methods.
CDC proposes that cosmic acceleration emerges from an intrinsic dispersal tendency of matter-energy configurations, rather than from dark energy.
01 About
I am an independent researcher developing Configurational Dispersal Cosmology (CDC) — a framework that proposes cosmic acceleration arises from an intrinsic dispersal tendency in the universe's configuration space, rather than from a dark energy component. The framework is constructed to be falsifiable: it makes concrete predictions for the expansion history and structure growth that can be tested against observational data.
After completing secondary school, I took a structured gap year dedicated to building CDC as a rigorous scientific program: establishing theoretical foundations, deriving the full mathematical formulation, and beginning numerical implementation. Each stage has been developed carefully, with clear separation between formal results and open conjectures. CDC II, the mathematical formulation paper, has been submitted to Physics of the Dark Universe and is currently under review.
In January 2026, Emergent Ventures funding allowed me to continue full-time and access the computing resources required for numerical testing. The current phase focuses on implementing CDC II's derived system numerically, integrating it into CAMB or CLASS, and running MCMC-based parameter estimation against DESI DR2 BAO, Planck CMB, Pantheon+, and Euclid datasets.
02 Research & Writing
03 Work in Progress
The numerical implementation builds directly from the mathematical system derived in CDC II. Current work focuses on stable background evolution using the dimensionless e-fold system, Runge-Kutta integration of the full ODE system, and preparation for Boltzmann-code integration. The pipeline is being developed toward MCMC-based likelihood analysis against real observational data — the quantitative test that will determine whether CDC is competitive with ΛCDM.
CDC II develops the original hypothesis into a complete, self-consistent mathematical theory: an effective spacetime action, binding-dependent kinetic suppression, background evolution equations, a dimensionless e-fold formulation, and a perturbation-level structure suitable for Boltzmann integration. The paper has been submitted to Physics of the Dark Universe and is currently under review. Full Boltzmann implementation is the next development step.
04 Timeline
05 Approach
The standard approach in cosmology is to work within accepted frameworks until evidence demands otherwise. That is the right default. But the persistent uncertainties around dark energy — its unknown physical nature, the cosmological constant problem, and the growing statistical tensions in observational data — create genuine scientific room for alternative models, provided they are rigorously developed and falsifiable.
CDC is built to that standard. The goal is not to claim it is correct, but to develop it to the point where observational data can answer that question. A framework that cannot make falsifiable predictions is not science, regardless of its internal structure. CDC makes concrete predictions for H(z), the CMB shift parameters, and the matter power spectrum that can be compared directly against observation. That is the test that matters.
I try to be precise about what has been established and what has not. Structural consistency is not the same as observational support. Preliminary numerical agreement is not a result. These distinctions matter, and I take them seriously in how I describe the work.
I am 18 and work without institutional affiliation. What I have is uninterrupted time to focus on the problem, access to the same published literature as anyone else, and a commitment to doing the work carefully: verifying the mathematics, implementing the numerics correctly, and comparing against real data.
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