Annihilation‑Induced Vacuum Misalignment (AIVM)
Two numbers in cosmology have been bothering me for a long time. One is the matter–antimatter asymmetry : out of roughly a billion annihilations, only one baryon survived. The other is dark energy : an absurdly tiny vacuum energy density that somehow dominates the universe today. They are usually treated as unrelated accidents. The Annihilation‑Induced Vacuum Misalignment (AIVM) hypothesis is my attempt to see them as two relics of the same early‑universe event . The idea is simple: during matter–antimatter annihilation, an extremely small fraction of energy leaked into a non‑particle vacuum channel. That leakage both biased annihilation outcomes—leaving matter behind—and displaced the vacuum from its true ground state. Cosmic expansion froze this displacement, which we now observe as dark energy. 1. Motivation Modern cosmology faces two fine‑tuning problems: Baryon asymmetry : roughly one baryon survived for every billion matter–antimatter annihilations. Dark energy : a nearly consta...
