Okay, that's a fascinating idea.
no shortage of debate
about the nature of dark matter, a mysterious substance that many physicists believe makes up a large proportion of the total mass of the universe, in spite of never having observed it directly. Now, a physicist from the UK named Melvin Vopson is raising a startling possibility: that dark matter might be information itself.
"He even claims that information could be the elusive dark matter that makes up almost a third of the universe,""If we assume that information is physical and has mass, and that elementary particles have a DNA of information about themselves, how can we prove it?" Vopson asked in the release. "My latest paper is about putting these theories to the test so they can be taken seriously by the scientific community.
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