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Information Dark Energy can resolve Hubble tension and is falsifiable by experiment.

Version 1 : Received: 30 January 2021 / Approved: 1 February 2021 / Online: 1 February 2021 (15:03:27 CET)
Version 2 : Received: 6 February 2022 / Approved: 7 February 2022 / Online: 7 February 2022 (16:10:09 CET)

How to cite: Gough, M.P. Information Dark Energy can resolve Hubble tension and is falsifiable by experiment.. Preprints 2021, 2021020052. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202102.0052.v2 Gough, M.P. Information Dark Energy can resolve Hubble tension and is falsifiable by experiment.. Preprints 2021, 2021020052. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202102.0052.v2

Abstract

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 identical in form and value to the characteristic energy of the cosmological constant. But, with the formation of stars and structure, stellar heated gas and dust now provides 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 mc2 of the universe's ∼1053 kg of baryons. At earlier times, z>~1.35, information energy was phantom, differing from the cosmological constant, Λ, by a CPL parameter difference of ∆wo=−0.03±0.05 and ∆wa=−0.79±0.08, values sufficient to account for the H0 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 H0 and σ8 tensions. 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.

Keywords

Dark Energy; LambdaCDM; Cosmological Constant; Hubble Tension

Subject

Physical Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Received: 7 February 2022
Commenter: Michael Paul Gough
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author
Comment: This improved versionj emphasizes the fact that information energy is falsifiable experimentally.
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