A particle-based calculation uses information theory to estimate cosmic bits, without proving information is a new state of ...

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Elementary school science teaches us that there are four types of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. But a new theoretical study says that the fifth form of matter has been lurking right under ...

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The concept that we are all computer-generated characters occupying a world as real as the ones gamers explore on their PlayStation consoles isn't exactly a new one. As far back as 1999, Morpheus was ...

Physicist Michael Vopson proposes that the universe operates on an efficient algorithm, suggesting it behaves like a data optimization program. This theory challenges current understanding by ...

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An experiment that could confirm the fifth state of matter in the universe—and change physics as we know it—has been published in a new paper from the University of Portsmouth. Physicist Dr. Melvin ...

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