Lambda-CDM model
The standard model of cosmology: cold dark matter plus a cosmological constant, fitting most large-scale observations.
At a glance
Key signals
50% cross fields · reaches 1 more
- Cosmology
- Astrophysics
- Explanation
- Examples
- Misconception
- Sourced relations
- Attribution
Structural role & consequence
Interpreted from the current atlas graph — what the connections mean, not just how many there are.
Removing this node lengthens the structural route between Dark energy and Dark matter from 2 to 4 steps (they stay connected — alternative routes exist).
structural · Structural removal simulation — not a historical or causal counterfactual.
50% of its relationships cross field boundaries, reaching 1 other discipline — below the 50% median of 24 concepts in the same discipline.
structural · Structural graph analysis — not a claim of importance, causation or history.
Currently dark in the atlas: no key date stored · 6 of 6 of its relations lack claim-level evidence.
atlas representation · Describes the current Thinking OS representation, not the state of the world.
Structural neighbourhood: 6 → 23 → 51 concepts reachable within 3 hops.
structural · Structural reach — being reachable is not the same as being understood.
cross-field
3 within-field, 3 cross-field
Strengths & constraints
Strengths
- Cross-disciplinary connector — 50% of its relationships cross field boundaries. structural
Constraints
- Evidence coverage currently thin in the atlas — few of its relationships carry claim-level evidence. atlas representation
- No dated history stored — the atlas records no key date for this concept. atlas representation
Conditions
- Read structurally — most of its relationships carry no external evidence yet, so claims here are graph-derived. structural
Seen through each discipline
How this concept sits in each of its fields — derived from its real connections in the graph, not asserted.
Through this lens it connects to Hubble tension, Baryon acoustic oscillations and JWST early-galaxy tension.
Through this lens it connects to Hubble tension and JWST early-galaxy tension.
Related ideas to explore
Concepts that look related but are not yet connected here — candidates for a connection to reason about, not established links.
This idea also appears in…
The same structure shows up in other disciplines. These are real recurrences drawn from the graph — a starting point for asking “what carries over, and what changes?”
Concepts
- Cosmic microwave backgroundAstronomy
crosses a discipline boundary
- Dark energyAstronomy
crosses a discipline boundary
- Dark matterAstronomy
crosses a discipline boundary
- Connects 6 other ideas across 2 disciplines.
- Most of its connections are of the “Teaching link” kind.
Derived from the graph’s real structure — observations, not a score.
Sources
- Gravitational anti-screening as an alternative to the Λ CDM $\Lambda \mbox{CDM}$ model (2016) verified
- Λ $ \Lambda $ CDM model and cosmological puzzles (2018) verified
- $\mathbf{\Omega_1\Omega_2}$--$\mathbf{\Lambda}$CDM: A promising phenomenological extension of the standard model of cosmology (2026) verified