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Information Being A Form Of Matter: The backstory
Scientists want to use an experiment to confirm that elementary particles have measurable mass. It would involve a matter-antimatter annihilation process that would shoot a beam of positrons at electrons in a piece of metal. Positrons and electrons are both subatomic particles, with the same mass and magnitude of charge.
However, positrons are positively charged, and electrons are negatively charged. A sheet of metal has many free electrons, increasing the probability of collision with the incoming positrons.
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A New Concept of Matter
Scientists believe that the observable matter in the universe has specific information content.
For example, typical atoms—containing protons, electrons, and neutrons—hold not only the combined masses of these subatomic particles, but also the minuscule masses of the information they requi...
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Beyond Our Earthly Problems: The Universe May Be A Simulation After All
Proving that information has mass can explain mysteries like dark matter. That’s because the physical properties of the bits of information mimic what dark matter appears to be—small bits of mass particles without charge or spin.
Confirming that information is the fifth state of matter touc...
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Information Generated Every Day
The amount of information we have today is staggering.
Each day on Earth, we generate 500 million tweets, 294 billion emails, 4 million gigabytes of Facebook data, 65 billion WhatsApp messages, and 720,000 hours of new content added daily on YouTube.
The total amount...
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Key Findings
- Information could become the fifth state of matter alongside gas, plasma, liquid, and solid states.
- A scientist has proposed an experiment involving particle annihilation that could establish that information truly ha...
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Information Could Be the 5th State of Matter, Proving We Live in a Simulation
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