Observational Evidence for Two Cosmological Predictions Made by Bit-String Physics

Abstract

A decade ago bit-string physics predicted that the baryon/photon ratio at the time of nucleogenesis $\eta =1/256^4$ and that the dark matter/baryonic matter ratio ${\Omega }_{DM}/{\Omega }_B=12.7$. Accepting that the normalized Hubble constant is constrained observationally to lie in the range $0.6<h_0<0.8$, this translates into a prediction that $0.325>{\Omega }_M>0.183$. This and a prediction by E.D.Jones, using a model-independent argument and ideas with which bit-string physics is not inconsistent, that the cosmological constant ${\Omega }_{\Lambda }=0.6\pm 0.1$ are in reasonable agreement with recent cosmological observations, including the BOOMERANG data.

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