{"id":129724,"date":"2021-10-30T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T02:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/how-much-information-is-in-the-universe-its-an-unfathomable-number"},"modified":"2021-10-30T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T02:22:28","slug":"how-much-information-is-in-the-universe-its-an-unfathomable-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/how-much-information-is-in-the-universe-its-an-unfathomable-number","title":{"rendered":"How much information is in the universe? It\u2019s an unfathomable number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vzQT74nNGME?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was described in his 2019 paper, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1063\/1.5123794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">The <em><em>mass-energy-information<\/em><\/em> equivalence principle<\/a>,\u201d which extends Einstein\u2019s theories about the interrelationship of matter and energy to data itself. Consistent with IT, Vopson\u2019s study was based on the principle that information is physical and that all physical systems can register information. He concluded that the mass of an individual bit of information at room temperature (300K) is <strong>3.19 \u00d7 10<sup>-38<\/sup> kg (8.598 \u00d7 10<sup>-38<\/sup> lbs)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Taking Shannon\u2019s method further, Vopson determined that every elementary particle in the observable Universe has the equivalent of <strong>1.509 bits of encoded information<\/strong>. \u201cIt is the first time this approach has been taken in measuring the information content of the universe, and it provides a clear numerical prediction,\u201d he said. \u201cEven if not entirely accurate, the numerical prediction offers a potential avenue toward experimental testing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was described in his 2019 paper, \u201cThe mass-energy-information equivalence principle,\u201d which extends Einstein\u2019s theories about the interrelationship of matter and energy to data itself. Consistent with IT, Vopson\u2019s study was based on the principle that information is physical and that all physical systems can register information. He concluded that the mass of an individual [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}