{"id":137531,"date":"2022-03-31T01:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T06:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/information-could-be-the-5th-state-of-matter-proving-we-live-in-a-simulation"},"modified":"2022-03-31T01:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T06:22:39","slug":"information-could-be-the-5th-state-of-matter-proving-we-live-in-a-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/information-could-be-the-5th-state-of-matter-proving-we-live-in-a-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Information Could Be the 5th State of Matter, Proving We Live in a Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/information-could-be-the-5th-state-of-matter-proving-we-live-in-a-simulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If true, this idea could even help us understand all of the dark matter in our universe.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Trying to make sense of information is a universal daily experience. For physicist Melvin Vopson, this pursuit goes well beyond the mundane\u2014he\u2019s trying to prove that information has a physical presence. It\u2019s a weighty task that could lead to new insights about how we can manage the future of information storage. It could also lead to a fundamental shift in how we think about the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Vopson, who studies information theory at University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, wants 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If true, this idea could even help us understand all of the dark matter in our universe. Trying to make sense of information is a universal daily experience. For physicist Melvin Vopson, this pursuit goes well beyond the mundane\u2014he\u2019s trying to prove that information has a physical presence. It\u2019s a weighty task that could lead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137531","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}