Successful Predictions And Retrodictions Of The SSCP
The self-consistency and universality of the discrete self-similar scaling equations of the SSCP have been subjected to many tests. The following is a partial list of the successful predictions and retrodictions that have been achieved by the Self-Similar Cosmological Paradigm. Details are discussed in the “Selected
Papers” and “New Developments” sections of this website.
- The abundance of red dwarf stars.
- The abundance of white dwarf stars.
- Lower limit radii for red dwarf stars.
- Average radii for white dwarf stars.
- The range of radii for white dwarf stars.
- The overall range of radii for stars.
- Typical spin periods of pulsars.
- The range of radii for galaxies.
- Typical spin periods for galaxies.
- The geometric shapes of atomic nuclei and galaxies.
- Average mass of white dwarf stars.
- Lower mass limit of white dwarf stars.
- The Ks/Ka ratio for the J = KiM2 relationships of stars and atoms.
- The Δs/Δa ratio for the μ = ΔiJ relationships on the Stellar and Atomic
Scales.
- The global 160 minute g-mode oscillation of the Sun.
- Magnetic dipole moment ranges for atomic nuclei and neutron stars.
- Preferred periods for white dwarf stars.
- The range of oscillation periods for neutron stars.
- Keplerian period/radius laws for variable stars and Rydberg atoms.
- The ratio of Ks/Ka from the P2 = KiR3
relationships of stars and atoms.
- Successful prediction of pulsar/planet systems.
- Evidence for dark matter peaks at 8 x 10-5 M¤,
0.15 M¤ and
0.58 M¤.
- Steep drop in the stellar mass function below 0.15 M¤.
- Gap in the stellar mass function at about 0.73 M¤.
- Prediction of an anomalously low exoplanet abundance for the lowest mass red dwarf stars (0.1 to 0.25 M¤).
- Preferred mass peaks in the white dwarf mass spectrum.
- Decreased upper limit for masses of single stars.
- Revised upper limits to the observed radii of stars and atoms.
- Active galaxy oscillation periods of about 107 years.
- Self-similar scaling between stellar activity cycles and e-
spin transitions.
- Discrete self-similarity between RR Lyrae stars and excited He atoms.
- Discrete self-similarity between δ Scuti stars and excited C atoms.
- Discrete self-similarity between ZZ Ceti stars and excited He+
ions.
- Radius of the proton.
- Mass of the proton.
- Approximate radius of the alpha particle.
- Potential resolution of the vacuum energy density crisis.
- Discrete self-similarity between SX Phoenicis stars and excited boron atoms.
- Prediction of planets orbiting ultracompact stellar-mass objects (in 1989), e.g., pulsar/planet systems, before they were first discovered in 1996.
- Definitive prediction of billions of unbound planetary-mass objects (UPMOs) throughout the Galaxy (Oldershaw, Astrophysical Journal, 322, 34-36, 1987), which were discovered in 2011 (Sumi et al, Nature, 473, 349-352, May 2011).