This Experiment Could Show Whether Information is a ‘Fifth Element’
"A newly proposed experiment could prove (or disprove) that information itself is the
fifth element of physical matter. At present, solid, liquid, gas, and plasma represent the
four known states of matter. However, the latest proposal posits that information is a
separate, fifth matter state, which also has its own mass.
Dr. Melvin Vopson from the University of Portsmouth has already published work
theorizing that elementary particles of matter that form the building blocks of the
universe store information about themselves, similar to how each cell of living
organisms carries a copy of its DNA blueprint. Furthermore, Dr. Vopson has published
work postulating that this information has mass.
Of course, based on current physics, all matter is either solid, liquid, gas, or plasma,
with the latter making up as much as 99% of the matter in the universe. A lot of time
and money has been invested in the search for something called dark matter, but thus
far that search has come up empty. Now, this latest proposal by Vopson seeks to
prove once and for all that information itself is a physical thing that even has mass."
See:
https://thedebrief.org/this-experime...fifth-element/