Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0603084

From: Paul Gough Prof [view email]

Date (v1): Fri, 3 Mar 2006 15:20:45 GMT (109kb)
Date (revised v2): Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:47:12 GMT (114kb)
Date (revised v3): Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:03:07 GMT (83kb)
Date (revised v4): Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:25:53 GMT (81kb)

On the similarity of Information Energy to Dark Energy

Authors: M.P.Gough, T.D.Carozzi, A.M.Buckley

Comments: 5 pages, no figures, no tables

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.

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603084