The Double-Edged Sword: Deriving Dark Energy and Dark Matter as Projection Artifacts of Time Emergence

Description / Abstract: The concordance cosmological model (ΛCDM) requires 95% of the universe to be composed of unknown substances: 68% dark energy and 27% dark matter. This paper demonstrates that both requirements arise from a single assumption — that time is fully expressed everywhere and at every epoch — and that the consequences of removing this assumption are sufficient to explain both inventions. Dark energy is the clock error. Using 1,580 Type Ia supernovae from Pantheon+ (z > 0.01), a time emergence function τ(z) with steepness β = ln(δ) = 1.5410 derived from Feigenbaum's universal constant matches ΛCDM to within 6.4% in χ²/dof with zero free cosmological parameters. Seven CMB acoustic peak positions…