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By C. Rich
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6541-3905
The Cosmic Two-for-One: Bridging the Hubble Tension and the MOND Anomaly
For years, the world of cosmology has been wrestling with two massive, stubborn head-scratchers. First, there is the “Hubble tension,” a heated disagreement about exactly how fast our universe is expanding. Then, there is the “MOND anomaly”, the baffling observation that galaxies spin in ways that defy Newton’s classic rules of gravity, which usually leads scientists to invent “dark matter” to fill in the blanks. Typically, these two problems are treated as completely separate headaches, studied by different communities of scientists using entirely different experimental programs. But the Cosmological Pangaea framework offers a new perspective: what if these aren’t two problems, but two projections of the same underlying physics?
A New Perspective on Gravity
Instead of assuming dark matter is an invisible, mysterious substance hiding in galactic halos, this framework treats gravity as an “entropic” force. The idea is that gravity emerges naturally because the universe, as a system, is constantly trying to maximize its entropy. When you look at the edge of our cosmos, the de Sitter horizon creates a boundary that sets the scale at which gravity begins to behave differently, effectively producing the phenomena we call MOND without needing to invent new particles.
Nudging the Numbers Closer
So, does this “solve” the Hubble tension? Not quite, it’s not a magic wand that makes the discrepancy vanish entirely. However, the framework produces a significant, meaningful reduction in the tension.
The LQC (Loop Quantum Cosmology) quantum bounce mechanism, a core part of the Pangaea framework, shifts the early expansion history in a way that naturally pushes the predicted expansion rate higher, moving it closer to local measurements. Because this expansion rate and the galactic acceleration scale are mathematically locked together via the Verlinde entropic gravity relation, this same shift also pushes the predicted MOND acceleration scale into closer agreement with observed values. The framework shows that these two residuals, the gap in the Hubble tension and the gap in the MOND scale, are not independent. When you adjust the underlying quantum uncertainty, both gaps close together.
The Honest Verdict
This framework is best understood as a “consistency connection” rather than a total, finished proof. It highlights that the two anomalies are linked, and it substantially reduces the discrepancies that have plagued standard models for years. While there is still a residual gap, about 8 to 10%, the fact that both problems respond to the same underlying physics is a powerful hint. This isn’t just about tweaking a few numbers; it is evidence of a deeper unification, suggesting that the “dark matter” we have been hunting for decades is simply gravity doing what it must at the edge of our cosmos.
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