cosmological expansion

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

Cosmological expansion is the large-scale cosmic development that the books discuss both as a condition of cooling and structure formation and through a stronger speculative transactional account. In the latter, new actualized transactions continually establish spacetime intervals, with proposed links to Hubble expansion and dark energy. The corpus preserves that program’s conjectural status rather than claiming the standard cosmological observations uniquely prove RTI.

Explanation

RB2 describes expansion and gravitational clumping together in the historical formation of stars, elements and later life. It also leaves the special low-entropy beginning an open question. RB3’s r greater than g comparison illustrates local gravitational amplification against background dilution as an analogy, not a shared mechanism with economic accumulation or a universal formula for cosmic structure.

In the transactional extension, actualized photon exchanges establish intervals rather than merely occurring in a completed container. The source quotation links continual creation of intervals to cosmic expansion. Its primal now is not a global clock instant, and a null interval means zero photon proper time rather than zero coordinate duration for observers.

The Hubble and dark-energy connections belong to the speculative gravity program, not a separately verified calculation in this assessment. RB1 labels its stronger endpoint conjectural, and RB2 says the philosophical argument does not rest on it. The proposal therefore keeps observed cosmic history, the interpretation of actualization and the stronger cosmological conjectures distinct.

Scope and attribution

Retain the cosmological discussion with its explicit conjectural and temporal qualifications.

RB1 — The Real Book, Volume I: The Possible Is Real

The expansion and dark-energy claims belong to the strong conjectural program.

Occurrence locators: 15, 36, 95, 97.

RB2 — The Real Book, Volume II: Becoming Is Being

Cosmic cooling and clumping are distinguished from the stronger quoted transactional account and its primal-now qualification.

Occurrence locators: 186, 218, 219, 261, 264, 267.

RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations

The gravitational amplification comparison is an illustrative analogy, not an identity of mechanisms.

Occurrence locators: 107, 108.

Background used in the editorial explanation

Named theories and mechanisms are distinguished from neighboring background, homonyms and the author’s own synthesis. Reproduced AI passages retain their separate voice.