Bit-String Physics Prediction of eta, The Dark Matter/Baryon Ratio and Omega_M

Abstract

Using a simple combinatorial algorithm for generating finite and discrete events as our numerical cosmology, we predict that the baryon/photon ratio at the time of nucleogenesis is $η= 1/256^4$, $Ω_{DM}/Ω_B= 12.7$ and (for a cosmological constant of $Ω_Λ=0.6\pm 0.1$ predicted on general grounds by E.D.Jones) that $0.325 > Ω_M > 0.183 $. The limits are set not by our theory but by the empirical bounds on the renormalized Hubble constant of $0.6 < h_0 < 0.8$. If we impose the additional empirical bound of $t_0 < 14 Gyr$, the predicted upper bound on $Ω_M$ falls to 0.26. The predictions of $Ω_M$ and $Ω_Λ$were in excellent agreement with Glanz&#39; analysis in 1998, and are still in excellent agreement with Lineweaver&#39;s recent analysis despite the reduction of observational uncertainty by close to an order of magnitude.