Cosmic Microwave Background Spatial Asymmetry as a Signature of Non-Markovian Spacetime Memory
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: In 2013, the European Space Agency's Planck satellite announced a puzzling mystery: the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is not perfectly isotropic. One hemisphere of the sky (in a specific direction) exhibits slightly stronger temperature fluctuations than the other. The standard cosmological model (\LambdaCDM) considers this a "statistical anomaly" or merely a coincidence. This paper proposes a deterministic physical explanation for this anomaly using the K-Kernel framework. We demonstrate that the spacetime fabric acts as a non-Markovian spatial memory reservoir. By introducing a non-local spatial memory kernel into the primordial fluctuations, we show that the spacetime retains a directional memory of its early expansion phase. Our numerical simulations reproduce the observed hemispherical asymmetry, providing a natural mechanism for the CMB anomaly without relying on statistical flukes. This bridges the gap between quantum memory effects and large-scale cosmological observations.
Author: SAIM, MOHAMMED TAHAR
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225405377
