On the similarity of Information Energy to Dark Energy

TL;DR

This paper explores the analogy between information energy and dark energy, showing that the universe's information content could account for dark energy's properties and effects.

Contribution

It demonstrates that information energy shares key properties with dark energy, including energy per bit, total energy estimate, and negative pressure, suggesting a potential informational origin of dark energy.

Findings

Information energy per bit matches the cosmological constant energy.

Total information energy is comparable to dark energy.

Information energy exhibits a negative equation of state parameter.

Abstract

Information energy is shown here to have properties similar to those of dark energy. The energy associated with each information bit of the universe is found to be defined identically to the characteristic energy of a cosmological constant. Two independent methods are used to estimate the universe information content of ~10^91 bits, a value that provides an information energy total comparable to that of the dark energy. Information energy is also found to have a significantly negative equation of state parameter, w < -0.4, and thus exerts a negative pressure, similar to dark energy.