Mass-energy-information equivalence

Short description: Hypothesis that information has mass-energy

The proposed mass-energy-information-equivalence principle is the hypothesis that mass, energy and information are all facets of a single underlying phenomenon. This principle proposed by professor M. M. Vopson in 2019.[1] It extends the mass-energy equivalence principle of special relativity by asserting that information has mass.[2] Vopson's ideas have been described as an application of Landauer's principle to elementary particles.[3]

## Contents

* 1 Testability
* 2 Challenges
* 3 References
* 4 See also

## Testability

Vopson has described a particle physics-based experimental tests for this hypothesis.[4]

E Džaferović-Mašić has suggested, based on Vopson's principle, that missing information in the Universe may be a candidate for explaining the dark matter phenomenon, and has proposed experiments that may be capable of testing this hypothesis.[5]

## Challenges

In a preprint published in 2022, Mark Burgin and Rao Mikkilineni argue, based on Burgin's own General Theory of Information, that Landauer's principle, Vopson's principle etc. describe only properties of the physical representations of information, but not the information itself.[6]

## References

1. ↑ Robson B., Ochoa-Vargas G. Searching for the principles of a less artificial AI //Informatics in Medicine Unlocked. – 2022. – С. 101018.
2. ↑ Vopson, Melvin M. (2019-09-01). "The mass-energy-information equivalence principle". AIP Advances 9 (9): 095206. doi:10.1063/1.5123794. Bibcode: 2019AIPA....9i5206V. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5123794.
3. ↑ McRae, Mike (2022-03-26). "Digital Data Could Be Altering Earth's Mass Just a Tiny Bit, Claims Physicist" (in en-US). https://www.sciencealert.com/physicist-claims-information-has-mass-and-might-be-considered-a-state-of-matter.
4. ↑ Vopson, Melvin M. (2022-03-01). "Experimental protocol for testing the mass–energy–information equivalence principle". AIP Advances 12 (3): 035311. doi:10.1063/5.0087175. Bibcode: 2022AIPA...12c5311V. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0087175.
5. ↑ Džaferović-Mašić, E (2021-02-01). "Missing information in the Universe as a dark matter candidate based on the mass-energy-information equivalence principle". Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1814 (1): 012006. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1814/1/012006. ISSN 1742-6588. Bibcode: 2021JPhCS1814a2006D. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1814/1/012006.
6. ↑ Burgin, Mark; Mikkilineni, Rao (2022-05-29) (in en-US). As Some Physicists Claim, Is Information the Fifth State of Matter? General Theory of Information Says No.. ISSN 2516-2314. https://easychair.org/publications/preprint/ZrFQ.

## See also

* Landauer's principle
* Entropic gravity
* Bekenstein bound

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