Exploring the Expansion of the Universe and Heat Death

[berty]

Heat death simply means that entropy or total chaos/disorder has reached its ultimate conclusion and every part of the entire Universe/Cosmos has the same temperature as every other part.
Without a difference in temperature, no work can be extracted nor energy generated from any system. Even if every part of the Cosmos = 100C, it would make no difference.
Matter is frozen energy and unless it can be heated or accelerated to a higher state it will remain frozen. This cannot happen once entropy has reached its maximum effect.

www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae181.cfm

 

[chronon]

I've just found the following paper by Lineweaver in which he links the entropy of the Cosmological Event Horizon to the existence of life in the universe - looks interesting.

Cosmological and Biological Reproducibility:Limits on the Maximum Entropy Production Principle

 

[Mike2]

I've just found the following paper by Lineweaver in which he links the entropy of the Cosmological Event Horizon to the existence of life in the universe - looks interesting.

Cosmological and Biological Reproducibility:Limits on the Maximum Entropy Production Principle

He doesn't seem to mention what happens as a result of accelerated expansion making the cosmological event horizon even smaller.