Perhaps the new experiment will change physics as we know it , and scientists will finally be able toopen
How did it all start?
Physicist Dr. Melvin Vopson has beenstudies the issue of matter and information in the Universe. In the course of his work, he published a study in which he suggested that information has a mass. This means that all elementary particles, the smallest known building blocks of the universe, store information about themselves, just as humans have DNA.
The physicist calls information the fundamental building block of the universe. The connection between the physical universe and information is very profound, as it has been proven that information is a physical quantity.This means that it must be an integral part of the physical universe ," the scientist told the journal AZoQuantum." It gets a little more complicated when you start thinking about what information is and what its role is in the universe, because it's a blueprint for everything."
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He also argues that the information could be the elusive dark matter that makes up nearly a third of the universe.
New experiment
As part of a new study, the physicist developedan experiment that (if all goes well) will confirm that information is the fifth form of matter, along with solid, liquid, gas and plasma.
"If we assume that information is physical and has mass, and that elementary particles haveDNA with information about themselves, can it be proven?My latest article is about testing these theories so that the scientific community will take them seriously."scientist.
Vopson's experiment suggests what to detectand it is possible to measure information in an elementary particle by means of a collision of a particle with an antiparticle. Since there is 22 million times less information in an electron than its mass, experiments can measure the content of information by simply erasing it.
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When an electron-positron annihilates, in addition to two gamma photons with an energy of 511 keV (As a result of the conversion of their rest masses into energy), two additional photons with low energy may appear as a result of the erasure of their information content, the scientist is sure.At room temperature, the positron-electron annihilation should produce two ∼50μm infrared photons due to information erasure. Thus, this experiment can confirm both informational guesses and the existence of information as the fifth state of matter in the Universe.
To put it simply, when a particle of matter collides with a particle of antimatter, they annihilateAnd the information from the particle has to go somewhere. "catch" her.
How will physics change?
"It's going to be a moment of insight because it's going to changephysics as we know it, and will expand our understanding of the universe.But this will not contradict any of the existing laws of physics," the doctor saidWopson.
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One of the features of the theory is that it does notcontradicts quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, thermodynamics or classical mechanics. For example, General Relativity (GR) contradicts quantum mechanics. This, in turn, makes it difficult to build a scientific "theory of everything", which consists in the fact that both concepts have different areas of application. Quantum mechanics is mainly used to describe the microcosm, while general relativity is applicable to the macrocosm.
"My experiment complements physics with something new and incredibly exciting," he added.Wopson believes his work can demonstrate that information is a key component of everything in the universe.This is a new area of physical research.
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