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Information Dark Energy Can Resolve the Hubble Tension and Is Falsifiable by Experiment

We consider the role information energy can play as a source of dark energy. Firstly, we note that if stars and structure had not formed in the universe, elemental bits of information describing the attributes of particles would have exhibited properties similar to the cosmological constant. The Lan...

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Autor principal: Gough, Michael Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8947162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35327896
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24030385
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description We consider the role information energy can play as a source of dark energy. Firstly, we note that if stars and structure had not formed in the universe, elemental bits of information describing the attributes of particles would have exhibited properties similar to the cosmological constant. The Landauer equivalent energy of such elemental bits would be defined in form and value identical to the characteristic energy of the cosmological constant. However, with the formation of stars and structure, stellar heated gas and dust now provide the dominant contribution to information energy with the characteristics of a dynamic, transitional, dark energy. At low redshift, z < ~1.35, this dark energy emulates the cosmological constant with a near-constant energy density, w = −1.03 ± 0.05, and an energy total similar to the mc(2) of the universe’s ∼10(53) kg of baryons. At earlier times, z > ~1.35, information energy was phantom, differing from the cosmological constant, Λ, with a CPL parameter difference of ∆w(o) = −0.03 ± 0.05 and ∆w(a) = −0.79 ± 0.08, values sufficient to account for the H(0) tension. Information dark energy agrees with most phenomena as well as Λ, while exhibiting characteristics that resolve many tensions and problems of ΛCDM: the cosmological constant problem; the cosmological coincidence problem; the H(0) tension, and the σ(8) tension. As this proposed dark energy source is not usually considered, we identify the expected signature in H(a) that will enable the role of information dark energy to be falsified by experimental observation.
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spelling pubmed-89471622022-03-25 Information Dark Energy Can Resolve the Hubble Tension and Is Falsifiable by Experiment Gough, Michael Paul Entropy (Basel) Article We consider the role information energy can play as a source of dark energy. Firstly, we note that if stars and structure had not formed in the universe, elemental bits of information describing the attributes of particles would have exhibited properties similar to the cosmological constant. The Landauer equivalent energy of such elemental bits would be defined in form and value identical to the characteristic energy of the cosmological constant. However, with the formation of stars and structure, stellar heated gas and dust now provide the dominant contribution to information energy with the characteristics of a dynamic, transitional, dark energy. At low redshift, z < ~1.35, this dark energy emulates the cosmological constant with a near-constant energy density, w = −1.03 ± 0.05, and an energy total similar to the mc(2) of the universe’s ∼10(53) kg of baryons. At earlier times, z > ~1.35, information energy was phantom, differing from the cosmological constant, Λ, with a CPL parameter difference of ∆w(o) = −0.03 ± 0.05 and ∆w(a) = −0.79 ± 0.08, values sufficient to account for the H(0) tension. Information dark energy agrees with most phenomena as well as Λ, while exhibiting characteristics that resolve many tensions and problems of ΛCDM: the cosmological constant problem; the cosmological coincidence problem; the H(0) tension, and the σ(8) tension. As this proposed dark energy source is not usually considered, we identify the expected signature in H(a) that will enable the role of information dark energy to be falsified by experimental observation. MDPI 2022-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8947162/ /pubmed/35327896 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24030385 Text en © 2022 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_full_unstemmed Information Dark Energy Can Resolve the Hubble Tension and Is Falsifiable by Experiment
title_short Information Dark Energy Can Resolve the Hubble Tension and Is Falsifiable by Experiment
title_sort information dark energy can resolve the hubble tension and is falsifiable by experiment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8947162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35327896
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24030385
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