Lack of Information Accelerates the Universe ⚡ экспресс
The authors suggested that on the horizon of the visible universe, entanglement entropy (a measure of information linkage) sits just below thermodynamic equilibrium. This deficit creates energy that kicks in only recently—at redshifts less than one—and gently accelerates expansion. The model preserves early epochs but alters late ones: structure growth slows while the expansion rate rises. Curiously, it's as if a shortage of cosmic 'memory' gives the universe an extra shove apart.
The visible edge of the universe is a holographic screen that, like a black hole, obeys laws discovered by Bekenstein and Hawking. Normally, information is preserved on it, but calculations show that if a few bits are lost, energy is released that accelerates expansion.
It is precisely this information leakage that can explain the famous Hubble tension — the discrepancy in measurements of the expansion rate of the universe. Unlike previous hypotheses, there's no need to change Big Bang physics — just a loss of data over the last few billion years. The effect is like a headwind: the faster the expansion, the stronger it pushes. This is not a constant dark energy but a growing one, adding a few percent to the rate today. For such acceleration, losing information equivalent to a couple of photons per year from the horizon would be enough; observations confirm this.
🎯 The information lost on the horizon is what's missing for an observer to fully describe the invisible universe. It's amazing that this deficit behaves like real thermal energy and can accelerate the expansion.
🎬 Just as in a cyberpunk world where a data leak changes the system, here bit loss on the horizon subtly rewrites the behavior of the universe.