Vacuum Energy from Fabric of 3d Euclidean Space

The Head of Theoretical Physics at Cern Gian Guidice presents an idea of Big Bang powered by energy stored in the "fabric of space and time" as "vacuum energy", in an interview about the question "What happened before the Big Bang"?

This connects to the Neo-Newtonian Cosmology presented in previous posts starting from a small oscillating perturbation $\phi$ of a zero gravitational potential $\Phi = 0$, which creates mass density $\rho$ of variable sign through the action of the Laplace differential operator $\Delta$ on $\phi$ as

• $\rho =\Delta\phi$.     (*)   

The action of differentiation inflates small oscillations of $\phi$ around zero into large oscillations of mass density of variable sign. By the action of gravitation mass separates into larger regions of positive and negative mass, which repel each other as if subject to dark energy, with small positive $\Delta\phi$ appearing as dark matter.  Further, gravitational collapse of regions of positive mass generates massive kinetic energy seemingly out of nothing as vacuum energy.

The action of the Laplacian $\Delta$ in the equation $\rho =\Delta\phi$ thus offers explanations of (i) vacuum energy, (ii) dark energy and (iii) dark matter,  as an expression of the "fabric of 3d Euclidean space". If true, simplicity shows to be more powerful than the complexity of the current state of the art.