Scientist Says That Dark Matter May Be Information Itself
Info Dump
There is no shortage of debate regarding the nature of the dark matter, a mysterious substance that many physicists believe makes up a large proportion of the total mass of the universe, despite never having observed it directly.
Currently, a physicist from the UK called Melvin Vopson is raising a startling possibility: that dark matter might be information itself.
“He also claims that information would be the elusive dark matter which makes up almost a 3rd of the universe,” reads a press release from the College of Portsmouth, where Vopson is a scientist researcher.
“If we say that information is physical and also has mass and that elementary particles get a DNA of information about themselves, how could we prove it?” Vopson questioned in the release. “My latest paper is about putting these concepts to the test so they can be taken seriously by the scientific community.”
Dark Shadows
The paper, released in the journal AIP Advances, suggests an experiment that could test the hypothesis that information is a distinct state of matter– alongside solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas– by utilizing a particle-antiparticle collision too, in theory, “delete” information from the universe.
“We know that whenever you collide a particle of matter with a particle of antimatter, they annihilate each other,” Vopson stated in the release. “And also the information from the particle has to go somewhere when it’s annihilated.”
There are many concepts about dark matter– including, it’s worth pointing out, that it does not exist at all– so while Vopson’s idea is provocative, it’s best to withhold judgment until he actually manages to test his hypothesis.
Nevertheless, for what it’s worth, he seems pretty compelled by the concept.
“It does not contradict quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, thermodynamics, or classical mechanics,” he stated in the release. “All it does is complement physics with something brand-new and incredibly exciting.”
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