SRDP — Self-Replication of Dark Particles
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Self-Replication Cosmology: Dark Particles as a Possible Unified Nature of Dark Energy and Dark Matter (a Historical Stage of the SRDP Programme)

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  • 1. Autonomous Non-Profit Organization of Additional Education "Innovator"

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This paper is part of the SRDP (Self-Replication of Dark Particles) programme. This short annotated version keeps the idea of version 2 as a historical stage and states, claim by claim, what became of it after the tests in the main paper. Version 2 proposed that dark energy and dark matter are two regimes of one population of self-replicating particles: the regime is set by the ratio of production rate to expansion rate, and for the family of rates r ∝ H^(1−m) agreement with observations was found only near m ≈ 2, where the expansion history coincides with ΛCDM. At m = 2 this family coincides with the working rate of the main paper, r = 3HΩ_Λ: this case of version 2 entered the programme's main model, but it is indistinguishable from ΛCDM. The view of dark energy as a replicating population is continued in the "carrying capacity of the medium" and "fading replication" variants, whose DESI DR3 test is preregistered. In the programme, dark matter is treated separately, as a sterile neutrino produced by the "epidemic" χ + X → χ + χ, with a mandatory decay line. Statuses: a constant production rate (m = 1) — excluded (when Ω_m is taken from the cosmic microwave background); the explanation of rotation curves by creation pressure — refuted; a unified nature of dark energy and dark matter — not established (indistinguishable from ΛCDM at m = 2); conversion of dark matter into dark energy — refuted.

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