The Self Creation challenge to the cosmological 'concordance model'

Abstract

The theory of Self Creation Cosmology is described and found to be as concordant as the standard cosmological 'concordance model' with local experiments and cosmological observations. However it does not require the speculative hypotheses of inflation, dark matter or dark energy. The theory is highly predictive and when its only free parameter, H, is fixed empirically, all other cosmological constraints are then determined and found to be consistent with present observations. It is highly testable and challenges General Relativity in the geodetic precession measurement to be made by the Gravity Probe B satellite. The new theory predicts a N-S geodetic plus Thomas precession about a direction perpendicular to the plane of the orbit of 4.4096 arcsec/yr, that is, 2/3 of that of General Relativity. The predictions of the 'frame dragging' precession of that experiment are equal in both theories that is 0.0409 arcsec/yr. Furthermore, there are at least two other experiments that will distinguish between the two theories, which should be performed at the earliest opportunity, if the geodetic measurement proves to be consistent with the theory. These experiments ask the questions, "Do photons fall at the same rate as particles?" and "Is the Casimir force coupled to curvature?"