{"id":1274,"date":"2025-12-13T16:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2025-12-13T16:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:45:26","slug":"information-as-the-fifth-state-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/13\/information-as-the-fifth-state-of-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Information as the Fifth State of Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Physics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Date : March 21, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : Phys.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/information.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/information.jpg 800w, https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/information-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/information-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Four types of matter are known today, solid, liquid, gazeous and plasma. A fifth type of matter could have been identified through experiment : INFORMATION, described as the fundamental building block of the Universe, and it may have mass ! Physicist Dr. Melvin Vopson suggested that information has mass and that all elementary particles store information about themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-03-state-universe.html\">Phys.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and the scientific paper on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/aip\/adv\/article\/12\/3\/035311\/2819739\/Experimental-protocol-for-testing-the-mass-energy\">AIP Publishing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics Date : March 21, 2022 Source : Phys.org Four types of matter are known today, solid, liquid, gazeous and plasma. A fifth type of matter could have been identified through experiment : INFORMATION, described as the fundamental building block of the Universe, and it may have mass ! Physicist Dr. Melvin Vopson suggested that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/13\/information-as-the-fifth-state-of-matter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Information as the Fifth State of Matter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}