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What Role Does Entropy Play in Dark Energy? From a thermodynamic standpoint, expansion itself increases the universe’s entropy capacity: as space grows, more energy configurations become possible. If entropy is the underlying driver, acceleration could simply reflect the system maximizing its accessible states.

What Role Does Entropy Play in Dark Energy?

Morten Magnusson 5. November 2025

The discovery that the universe’s expansion is accelerating changed modern cosmology. In the standard ΛCDM model, this...