The Bullet Cluster Separation in the Torsion-Regulated Frame: A Computed Bound on Any Torsion-Driven Offset
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper computes the change that the torsion-regulated Einstein-Cartan framework, organised by the Aldred Limit, predicts for offset between the lensing peak and the X-ray peak of 1E 0657-56, whose published value is of order 200 kiloparsecs. The density of the system, estimated from its published properties by the estimator stated in the Methods, is 1.46e-22 kilograms per cubic metre. At that density the fractional correction to the effective gravitating density is 1.50e-80 on the neutron branch and 5.08e-74 on the electron branch, against a measurement precision of 20 per cent. The predicted change is therefore smaller than the precision by a factor of 1.33e+79 on the neutron branch. Inverting the comparison, the existing agreement excludes carrier masses only below 2.58e-31 electronvolts, and the system would need a density of 9.72e+55 kilograms per cubic metre for the correction to reach one per cent. The result is a null result, stated plainly: this observable neither supports nor meaningfully constrains the framework, and the framework contributes nothing to the interpretation of this system beyond standard gravity. Computed from stated assumptions and published data; not a new measurement.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225784710
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