Toronto research institute connects nuclear physics data with cosmological observations to explain dark energy and dark matter without new particles.

TORONTO, ON, April 15, 2026 - The Institute of Integrative and Interdisciplinary Research (IIIR) today announced the completion of a two-volume research program that explains dark energy and dark matter - currently believed to constitute 95% of the universe - as natural consequences of quantum vacuum energy, without introducing new particles, new forces, or adjustable parameters.
The program identifies a 1967 assumption - that quantum vacuum energy is identical to Einstein's cosmological constant - as the source of the largest discrepancy in the history of physics. Nuclear physicists have measured how vacuum energy changes inside a proton. Cosmologists have measured how the cosmological constant governs expansion. These two results, published in separate fields, had never been connected.
The Local Gravity of Quantum Vacuum αLGQV Theory connects them. A single coupling constant α - 0.005 - derived from measured nuclear data reproduces the observed expansion rate of the universe, explains galactic rotation curves, and accounts for galaxies observed without dark matter.
"There is no new physics here," said Boris Kriger, Lead Investigator. "Everything in this program is in textbooks. The nuclear data has been published for decades. The cosmological measurements are standard. The problem was that these results live in different departments, different journals, different conferences. The connection was missed because of disciplinary boundaries - and that is exactly the kind of problem our institute exists to solve."
Key papers from the program have been submitted to peer-reviewed journals and are in the early stages of formal review.
The institute has made all 37 preprints, derivations, data, and correspondence publicly available and invites physicists, cosmologists, and nuclear scientists worldwide to scrutinize, reproduce, and test the results. Explicit falsification criteria are published: detection of a dark matter particle or exclusion of the predicted coupling constant would refute the program.
The complete program is available at https://interdisciplinary-research.institute/cosmology-and-theoretical-physics/

Boris Kriger | Research Fellow
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The Institute of Integrative and Interdisciplinary Research (IIIR) is a Toronto-based organization dedicated to solving complex problems through formal precision and cross-domain synthesis. Treating interdisciplinarity as a methodological necessity, the Institute bridges the gap between specialized fields-such as Cosmology, AI Systems, and Information Theory-to develop coherent theoretical architectures. By integrating mathematical rigor with philosophical reflection, IIIR addresses hybrid scientific challenges that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries.

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