Star Wars: Cosmological Constant

 Star Wars: Cosmological Constant $$R_{\mu \nu} -\frac{1}{2}R\,g_{\mu \nu} + \Lambda\,g_{\mu \nu} = {8 \pi G \over c^4} T_{\mu \nu}$$ "[The] expansion of the Universe may be accelerating under the action of a ‘cosmological constant’ … [that] appears to dominate the Universe and … [slows] down the gravitational collapse of material…"

- Boughn and Crittenden (2004). “A correlation between the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure in the Universe”. Nature (427): 45—47.

RELENTLESSRECUSANT HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

Introduction: Supermassive Black Holes
"The characteristic feature of a black hole is that it represents a region of space … from which no form of matter, energy, or information can escape."

- Penrose, R. (1972). “Black Holes and Gravitational Theory”. Nature (236): 377—380.

"The centres of most galaxies are thought to harbour supermassive black holes..."

- Doeleman et. al (2008). “Event-horizon-scale structure in the supermassive black hole candidate at the Galactic Centre”. Nature (455): 78—80.

Brentaal IV, Brentaal System, Bormea Sector, Galactic Core The Galaxy, Local Supercluster, The Galactic Universe

For an epoch, humans had perpetuated asymmetrically until they had carpeted the galaxy—ignorant of the grander celestial designs that had been transcribed into the palisade of stars above them. In their division and strife, instead of undertaking in the study of the galaxy of which they were the caretakers, they had instead elected to fell one another; a brother’s blood shed upon a brother’s hand—and a son’s blood upon his father’s hands. Through millions of iterations of fratricidal and internecine strife and conflict, they were curbing their own population, even without the need of a foreign power to usher their own fall. Through logarithmic decline, humanity too would asphyxiate and collapse in a death as inevitable as the Universe’s own collapse in a centillion years in the Big Crush.

The planets that populated this galaxy of inevitable apocalypse—including Brentaal—were rank with fear. Perhaps a few of the galaxy’s human inhabitants knew of their inevitable end—for their hands had fashioned the weapons of mass destruction and the human endeavor of avarice and bloodlust: together, hand-in-hand, weapons of galactic apocalypse and human willingness to use them had fashioned a supermassive black hole into which humanity’s mass extinction was inevitable. It did not matter whether mankind would be extinguished in their own cosmological grave in thousands, millions, or billions of years; the galaxy had stood for far longer than that. What was certain was that eventually, they would all fall, one by one, in facsimile of the Ratakan lords that had once presumed to also rule this galaxy, and too had fallen into a cosmic apocalypse of their own design.

In reflection of the decay of its human masters, the planet’s Brentaal’s surface was bleeding openly—mortal wounds the color of arterial blood, encompassing thousands of kilometers across the planet. The world’s life was waning, bleeding away—strangulated by its inhabitants who had proclaimed dominance over it. Years of combat with thermonuclear armaments had elicited the near-total destruction of Brentaal’s biosphere, with the loss of biodiversity comparable to the last mass extinction event on the planet, five hundred thousand years ago. Its atmosphere bled into space, its seas evaporated under thermonuclear contest by its own inhabitants.

It was inevitable that humanity’s iron hold over the galaxy would slacken and die. It was the inevitable entropic collapse of any galactic civilization invested with weaponry beyond its social intelligence to control the usage of its arms, of any civilization which upheld the reckless use of armaments and the deprival of life to no end.

Perhaps it is a bit tragic—for how far humanity would fall; they had clambered for millions of years that arise from the soils of their own planets, to form Old Republics and Galactic Empires that had spanned the galaxy and had promised to withstand the test of time. Instead, within dozens of years, the galaxy’s control changed hands as if it was some marketplace commodity, with no end in sight for civil war and fratricidal conflict that continued to succeed one galactic government with another.

Yet, in some sad but commendable fashion, there was one last force that resisted this collapse; a last, desperate friction force that arose from any two forces that slid against one another, human life desperately clinging on as it fell down the surely-set stairs to biological apocalypse. A friction force against death as life struggled to survive—one last pressure compelled humanity to withstand its own self-destruction, akin to the cosmological constant that withstood the gravitational collapse of stellar galaxies into their own supermassive black holes.

A final fighting resistance, perhaps, it might best be called. One that promised a final solution to the strife. Of men and women who decanted from their homeworlds in order to participate in an higher order that would oversee the end to the conflict.

They would be known in time as the Cosmological Constant—the final effect wrought by human hands to forestall their own self-collapse and destruction. And their intent: the censure of all forces that promised humanity’s own collapse into the black hole they had willingly constructed. An electric fire streaked across Brentaal’s scarred skies—a brilliant light fell from heaven, and the atmosphere blossomed into azure plumes. A star had fallen from the heavens—one of the celestial host, dethroned.

Far north in the arctic reaches of Brentaal, sheets of snow and ice shuddered with thunderclaps as a new chasm opened upon in their glacial ranks: they parted to admit a new, curious visitor from the stars, embedded amongst cliffs of ice and frozen riverines.

The last resistance had come to the planet Brentaal: their work here had begun.

Prologue: Presence of Cold Dark Matter
"The cold dark matter … model has been remarkably successful in describing the large-scale mass distribution in our Universe from the hot Big Bang to the present."

- Diemand et. al (2008). “Clumps and streams in the local dark matter distribution”. Nature (454): 735—738.

Brentaal IV, Brentaal System, Bormea Sector, Galactic Core Polar Regions, 83° 33’ 51’’ N by 20° 65’ 73’’ E