EXPANSION FORCE AS A BOHMIAN QUANTUM EFFECT TO TEST HUBBLE CONTROVERSY AND EARLY DARK ENERGY.

An additional expansion force was proposed ten years ago to explain flat rotation curves without requiring dark matter. This force has been applied to various astronomical or cosmological situations. More recently, it has been shown that it could result from Bohmian Quantum mechanics, bridging the gap between it and cosmology and leading to a universe evolution different from that of the Standard Model. In particular, the expansion rate was found to depend on the observation distance, which could shed new light on the Hubble controversy. In this article, this point is studied in the context of a very simple model of a homogeneous universe that would be either finite or infinite, and with a view to providing a precise test of the H measurements. It is also shown that the universal expansion force has decreased over time, as assumed by the "early dark energy" hypothesis. Will the effect of this force allow us to resolve the controversy? In any case, the results of this new approach can allow us to test the validity of the theory itself as well as the finitude or infinity of the universe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]