Dark Energy from Entanglements with Mirror Universe

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel framework where the Universe's dark energy arises from entanglement with a mirror universe, avoiding fine-tuning and linking dark energy to boundary conditions in a pair-universe model.

Contribution

It introduces a pair-universe model with entanglement energy as the source of dark energy, eliminating the need for vacuum fluctuation explanations and fixing the cosmological constant via boundary conditions.

Findings

Effective entanglement energy accounts for observed dark energy density.

Global zero-energy condition cancels vacuum energy contributions.

Boundary conditions at the horizon determine the cosmological constant.

Abstract

We investigate a possible resolution of the dark energy problem within a pair-universe framework, in which the Universe emerges as an entangled pair of time-reversed sectors. In this setting, a global zero-energy condition allows vacuum energy contributions from the two sectors to cancel, alleviating the need for extreme fine-tuning. We propose that the observed dark energy does not originate from vacuum fluctuations but instead arises as an effective entanglement energy between the visible universe and its mirror counterpart. Treating the cosmological constant as an integration constant fixed by boundary conditions rather than a fundamental parameter, we show that the cosmological equations can be formulated without explicitly introducing vacuum energy. By imposing physically motivated boundary conditions at the cosmological event horizon, we obtain an integration constant consistent with the observed dark energy density. The parallel mirror world scenario thus provides a unified framework that may simultaneously explain the origins of dark energy and dark matter.