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I put the original L&L quote in my previous post. Thanks again for the references...my copies of GR and Cosmology books are pre-"Dark Energy" and needed to be updated...I just ordered the Dodelson book.

Thanks for the references...you are right...intense! The Landau and Lifshitz reference discusses why the present Universe is so far from equilibrium and why it should not be considered as a closed system, which led to my original post. Maybe I should include it here: ..."when large regions...

I am also struggling with whether the universe is an open or closed system in the thermodynamic sense, and how to include gravitational effects. If matter tells space-time how to curve, and space-time tells matter how to move, then there seems to be an interaction between matter and the...