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Comparison reveals higher entropy production in habitable planets, suggesting life processes critically influence thermodynamics.
In the Acta Universi (AUfield) hypothesis of D. E. Yashchenko (2025), entropy is a measure of irreversible events recorded in the universal archive of the AU field. On a habitable planet (with life forms), entropy is radically higher due to biological processes (DNA replication, metabolism, consciousness) that generate 10³⁰-10⁵⁰ events/s. On an uninhabited planet (without life), entropy is limited by geological / atmospheric events (erosion, volcanism, ~10 ^ {20} events/s). This is consistent with data from astrobiology 2025: habitable planets have higher entropy production (PEP), which makes them "thermodynamically alive" (Universe Today, 2023; Astrobiology, 2024).
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