Metric Expansion from Microscopic Dynamics in an Inhomogeneous Universe

Theories with ingredients like the Higgs mechanism, gravitons, and inflatonfields rejuvenate the idea that relativistic kinematics is dynamicallyemergent. Eternal inflation treats the Hubble constant H as depending onlocation. Microscopic dynamics implies that H is over much smaller lengthsthan pocket universes to be understood as a local space reproduction rate.We illustrate this via discussing that even exponential inflation inTeV-gravity is slow on the relevant time scale. In our on small scalesinhomogeneous cosmos, a reproduction rate H depends on position. We therefore discuss Einstein-Strauss vacuoles and a Lindquist-Wheeler like lattice to connect the local rate properly with the scaling of an expanding cosmos. Consistency allows H to locally depend on Weyl curvature similar to vacuum polarization. We derive a proportionality constant known from Kepler's third law and discuss the implications for the finiteness of the cosmological constant.