An experiment that could confirm the fifth state of matter in the
universe—and change physics as we know it—has been published in a new paper
from the University of Portsmouth.
Physicist Dr. Melvin Vopson has already published research suggesting that
information has mass and that all elementary particles, the smallest known
building blocks of the universe, store information about themselves, similar
to the way humans have DNA.
Now, he has designed an experiment—which if proved correct—means he will
have discovered that information is the fifth form of matter, alongside
solid, liquid, gas and plasma.
Dr. Vopson said: "This would be a eureka moment because it would change
physics as we know it and expand our understanding of the universe. But it
wouldn't conflict with any of the existing laws of physics.
"It doesn't contradict quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, thermodynamics or
classical mechanics. All it does is complement physics with something new
and incredibly exciting."
Dr. Vopson's previous research suggests that information is the fundamental
building block of the universe and has physical mass.
He even claims that information could be the elusive dark matter that makes
up almost a third of the universe.
He said: "If we assume that information is physical and has mass, and that
elementary particles have a DNA of information about themselves, how can we
prove it? My latest paper is about putting these theories to the test so
they can be taken seriously by the scientific community."
Dr. Vopson's experiment proposes how to detect and measure the information
in an elementary particle by using particle-antiparticle collision.
He said: "The information in an electron is 22 million times smaller than
the mass of it, but we can measure the information content by erasing it.
"We know that when you collide a particle of matter with a particle of
antimatter, they annihilate each other. And the information from the
particle has to go somewhere when it's annihilated."
The annihilation process converts all the remaining mass of the particles
into energy, typically gamma photons. Any particles containing information
are converted into low-energy infrared photons.
In the study Dr. Vopson predicts the exact energy of the infrared photons
resulting from erasing the information.
Dr. Vopson believes his work could demonstrate that information is a key
component of everything in the universe and a new field of physics research
could emerge.
Reference:
Melvin M. Vopson, Experimental protocol for testing the
mass–energy–information equivalence principle, AIP Advances (2022).
DOI: 10.1063/5.0087175
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