Entropy production by decay of a dominant relic

ID: entropy-production-by-decay-of-a-dominant-relic

At fixed scale factor and unchanged relativistic counts, instantaneous conversion of a relic into thermal radiation gives the displayed entropy-density enhancement. It exceeds one because the gas receives energy from outside its prior equilibrium sector. This does not contradict cosmological entropy conservation, whose source-free reversible assumptions fail during decay and thermalization.

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