{"id":239676,"date":"2026-06-26T06:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-thermodynamic-approach-to-gravity-could-explain-cosmic-acceleration-without-dark-energy"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:24:25","slug":"a-thermodynamic-approach-to-gravity-could-explain-cosmic-acceleration-without-dark-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-thermodynamic-approach-to-gravity-could-explain-cosmic-acceleration-without-dark-energy","title":{"rendered":"A thermodynamic approach to gravity could explain cosmic acceleration without dark energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-thermodynamic-approach-to-gravity-could-explain-cosmic-acceleration-without-dark-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gravity, the force that attracts objects toward each other, is currently framed by Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity. This framework describes gravity as the curvature of spacetime, the invisible four-dimensional fabric of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>While general relativity is now the central theory of gravity, it fails to explain some cosmological phenomena and mysteries, such as the so-called cosmological constant problem. This is the unexplained mismatch between the observed energy of empty space and the far greater values predicted by quantum theories.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/tvmx-qk3k\" target=\"_blank\">a recent paper published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a>, researchers at Imperial College London tried to frame gravity using thermodynamics, the framework that describes how energy and heat transform. Their study builds on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-fundamental-reality-quiet-revolution-physics.html\">a seminal paper by theoretical physicist Ted Jacobson<\/a>, published more than three decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gravity, the force that attracts objects toward each other, is currently framed by Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity. This framework describes gravity as the curvature of spacetime, the invisible four-dimensional fabric of the universe. While general relativity is now the central theory of gravity, it fails to explain some cosmological phenomena and mysteries, such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}