Time, (Inverse) Temperature and Cosmological Inflation as Entanglement

TL;DR

This paper explores the idea that time and temperature are manifestations of quantum entanglement, proposing a dynamic link between them and applying this concept to cosmological inflation with potential observable consequences.

Contribution

It introduces a novel perspective that interprets time and temperature as quantum entanglement phenomena and applies this framework to early universe cosmology.

Findings

Time and temperature can be viewed as quantum entanglement.

Temperature may arise from quantum tunneling probabilities.

Entanglement-based models could have observable effects in cosmology.

Abstract

We present arguments to the effect that time and temperature can be viewed as a form of quantum entanglement. Furthermore, if temperature is thought of as arising from the quantum mechanical tunneling probability this then offers us a way of dynamically "converting" time into temperature based on the entanglement between the transmitted and reflected modes. We then show how similar entanglement-based logic can be applied to the dynamics of cosmological inflation and discuss the possibility of having observable effects of the early gravitational entanglement at the level of the universe.