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Personal preface

For 20 years now, I take interest in the question of the constancy of the natural forces.
I have formulated my thoughts and perceptions on this in various scripts, (the first one in 1986 „are the natural constants really constant?”, and then in sequence, synchronous to the progress of cognition).
The latest edition was set up in May 2001, under the title „The cosmic time – key to a new world model-", www.cosmictime.de The target of this contribution shall be  to confront my recognitions so far to the present state of knowledge, and to deliberate especially those results of research which can be brought into accordance with my own imaginations and hypotheses.As can be shown, the  "presumptive evidences" for the correctness of the "Cosmic Time Hypothesis" (CTH) have meanwhile become so conclusive , they simply cannot be ignored any longer. The power featured by the CTH also is expressed by the new, unconventional solutions it proposes for such fundamantal topics as „unification of natural forces and „cosmological constant“ or „energy of the vacuum”, respectively, which still belong to the big unsolved questions of theoretical physics. It answers (among others), some questions essential for this:
· Why was, at the Planck time( » 10 -43 seconds after the big bang), the gravitation force and the strong nuclear force equally strong?
· Why is that vacuum density, deducible from the elementary particles physics, by the factor 10 120 larger than that value resulting from observations, and which consequences has this for the cosmological constant?
· Which physical meaning has the vacuum energy density or the cosmological constant, resp.?
Apart from this, the CTH solves additional basic problems of theoretical physics and cosmology and hereby relieves it from unnecessary ballast.
· It solves the main problems of the big bang theory ( problems of the horizon, of galaxy formation, of planarity and of world age).
· The  inflationary model thereby loses ist right of existence.
· It prooves , the expanding (plane) universe is long-term stable (according to the physics valid today, it would be highly instable)!
· It supplies a convincing physical reason for the hypothesis of the Earth expansion, which could not find general acceptance in geophysics until today.
Finally, the CTH also explains some phenomena of the observing astronomy in a simple and natural way:
· The plane space-time perceptible within the limits of the observable universe.
· The observable continuous new formation of stars and galaxies from "unsoiled" hydrogen everywhere in the cosmos.
· The fact we see less matter in the universe than would be necessary for a plane space-time.
· The star formation rate decreasing with time, following from observations.
· The discrepancy between distance and red shift of type Ia supernovae in far galaxies resulting from measurements.
On the basis of its inner consistency and simplicity, the CTH also suffices the aesthetical requirement which any basic theory should fulfil.
 
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