According to a study conducted by Melvin Vopson, a physicist at the University of Portsmouth, the digital data we create, such as billions of WhatsApp conversations, billions of Tweets, countless SMS and billions of YouTube videos, weighs the weight of the world a little bit.
Of course, this is a very extreme concept because there isn’t much to prove it. A recent experiment by Vopson based on antimatter explosions has prompted the scientific community with a strange theory that digital data not only has mass, but may also be a strange new state of matter.
In 350 years our digital data could outweigh all the atoms in the world
Unlimited digital growth, according to past research, a significant portion of Earth’s mass will eventually be in the form of digital information may result in it. In fact, in 350 years, some experts think our digital data could outweigh all the atoms on Earth. Such a theory could change how we calculate mass under certain conditions and lead to new theories that can give us a better idea of the nature of dark matter.
The experiment by Vopson supports all of this. He says: “The information in an electron is 22 million times smaller than its mass, but we can measure the information content by erasing it. We know that when you collide a matter particle with an antimatter particle, they annihilate each other, and when the information from the particle is destroyed, we can measure the information content by erasing it. has to.”
Searching for very specific wavelengths of radiation in the annihilation of an information-charged electron tightens the bonds between information found as a form of energy within particles rather than another feature of thermodynamics within the larger system. Finding some kind of internal, information-based energy component as a fundamental property of matter can also qualify as a new kind of physical state.
Atoms can combine in solid state and flow in liquid and gaseous state, disperse in plasma and adapt as Bose-Einstein condensates or reduce disorder as information carriers. Until the experiment is complete, Vopson’s hypothesis, while intriguing, will remain controversial. But if it turns out to be true, the consequences could be huge indeed.
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