Plausible Solution to the Hubble Constant Discrepancy

Abstract

This comment was inspired about year after writing the above proposal by an interesting popular article about a possible explanation of Hubble constant discrepancy. The article told about a proposal of Lucas Lombriser discussed in the article Consistency of the local Hubble constant with the cosmic microwave background for an explanation of this discrepancy. The proposal is that the local region around our galaxy having size of order few hundred Mly - this is the scale of the large voids forming a honeycomb like structure containing galaxies at their boundaries - has average density of the matter 1/2 of that elsewhere. TGD suggests explanation of this finding in terms of p-adic length scale hypothesis favouring powers of 2 and predicted existence of two kinds of magnetic flux tubes: the monopole flux tubes carrying non-vanishing Kahler magnetic flux and crucial in the model of astrophysical objects as flux tube structures and flux tubes with vanishing induced Kahler field suggested to mediate gravitational interaction in very long scales. The large void around galaxy would correspond to flux tubes with string tension reduced by factor 1/2 from that in typical case.