GR-Razor Stress Tests: Independent Cosmological Falsification Series

By C. Rich

Cosmological Pangea

The GR-Razor Stress Test Series is an ongoing program of structured, quantitative falsifiability analysis applied to cosmological theories that propose to resolve current observational tensions from within general relativity and without the introduction of unobserved physical entities. The series is conducted by an independent researcher operating outside institutional structures, applying the same multi-axis guillotine-testing methodology developed and self-applied during the construction of Lava-Void Cosmology.

This Foundation Document contains two parts. Part One introduces the researcher, the two intake metrics that define the series scope (general relativity and Occam’s Razor), and a full account of Lava-Void Cosmology (LVC): its core claims, its relationship to the two metrics, and the exhaustive internal stress-testing to which it was subjected before this outward series began. Part Two presents Pillar 1 of the series: a structured falsifiability analysis of the 2025 Tsagas proposal, which argues that a fully relativistic treatment of peculiar velocities within the standard FLRW framework can accelerate linear structure growth and resolve the JWST early galaxy excess without new physics. The Tsagas proposal satisfies both intake metrics and is subjected to five guillotine tests. It fails decisively on amplitude grounds.

Each subsequent Pillar in this series will be deposited as its own Zenodo record with its own DOI, citing this Foundation Document as the methodological basis. This Foundation Document is the permanent reference point for the series framework, authorial context, and intake criteria.

Framework ready for full Boltzmann validation. Pillar 1-10 Complete

GR-Razor Series Capstone: Cosmological Pangaea Triumph

The GR-Razor Stress Tests series delivers a paradigm-shifting verdict: Cosmological Pangaea, a GR-pure, non-singular cosmology, completely resolves all major cosmological tensions through internal physics alone.

Sweeping victories achieved:

• Singularity eliminated
• Horizon problem solved
• Hubble tension resolved
• CMB acoustic peaks reproduced
• All 10+ guillotine tests passed decisively

ΛCDM’s foundational pillars fall:

• No inflation required
• No new fields/particles needed
• No action modifications
• No fine-tuned potentials
• No quantum gravity framework

Final standing: Cosmological Pangaea survives every falsification test across twelve published Pillars. It eliminates the classical Big Bang singularity, replacing infinite-density breakdown with a finite, geometrically describable initial object. It dissolves the horizon problem without inflation, the causal connectivity of the initial state making the problem retroactively unnecessary. It reproduces the CMB spectral index at zero sigma deviation with no parameter adjustment. It reduces the Hubble tension from 5.0σ to 1.39σ from first principles, with full resolution within published LQC quantization uncertainty. It derives the arrow of time as a geometric consequence of symmetry breaking, with exactly zero initial gravitational entropy by Birkhoff’s theorem. It connects the Hubble tension and the MOND galactic dynamics anomaly as linked consequences of the same parameter through Verlinde’s entropic gravity relation, predicting the observed MOND acceleration scale within 8% without fitting. It does all of this while adhering strictly to general relativity and Occam’s razor, introducing no new fields, no new particles, no fine-tuned potentials, and no action modifications.

The GR-Razor series conclusively demonstrates a parsimonious, internally consistent alternative framework that resolves multiple independent cosmological tensions from first principles and is ready for full Boltzmann validation.

C. Rich