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The fifth state of matter in the universe
New experiment that could confirm the fifth state of matter in the universe alongside solid, liquid, gas and plasma—and change physics as we know it. But it wouldn't conflict with any of the existing laws of physics.
Physicist Dr. Vopson has 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.
He even claims that information could be the elusive dark matter that makes up almost a third of the universe.
His experiment proposes how to detect and measure the information in an elementary particle by using particle-antiparticle collision.
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.
