Events2nd International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications
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This submission belongs to the session A. Physics and Engineering of the event 2nd International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications
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13 Nov, 2015
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Charles H. Lineweaver, Vihan M. Patel, Tamara M. Davis, Can we describe the evolution of the cosmic event horizon with the maximum entropy production principle?, in Proceedings of 2nd International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications, 15 November–30 November 2015, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland, doi: 10.3390/ecea-2-A015
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Can we describe the evolution of the cosmic event horizon with the maximum entropy production principle?

Tamara M. Davis 2
Vihan M. Patel 1
1. Australian National University
2. University of Queensland
Abstract

The universe is dominated by a non-zero energy of the vacuum (ρΛ) that is making the expansion of the universe accelerate. This acceleration produces a cosmic event horizon with associated entropy SCEH ~ ρΛ-1When this entropy is included in the entropy budget of the universe, it dominates the entropy of the next largest reservoir, supermassive black holes, by 19 orders of magnitude: 10122 k >> 10103 k. Here we address the issue of how one might apply the maximum entropy production principle (MEPP) to the processes responsible for the production of the cosmic event horizon entropy.

Keywords
maximum entropy production principle
expansion of the universe
cosmological constant
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