We present a novel method for estimating the cosmic expansion rate
at high redshift (
) using the internal dynamics and morphology of nearby galaxies—without relying on direct redshift-distance measurements. The approach models rotation curves of systems showing a clear structural transition between a central bar (interpreted as a fossil spiral) and an outer spiral disk. Within a dual-Lagrangian framework, these nested structures are assigned separate dynamical regimes, enabling
to be extracted from the mass
and critical radius
of the proto-bar region. The critical radius is defined locally by the condition
, which yields a local critical density
. When this purely local relation is mapped onto cosmic time using the ΛCDM matter-era scaling
, it reproduces the universal
law. Applying the method to seventeen
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