About us

Vopson research is a blog associated with Dr Vopson's Physics research activities at the University of Portsmouth, School of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Technology.

Media

 Media podcast and videos about Dr Vopson's research

 Audio podcast and article: Is information the fifth form of matter? 

Radio interview on German radio: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/einstein-2-0-physiker-will-nachweisen-dass-information-masse-besitzt-dlf-300533e9-100.html

 Audio podcast - World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

https://www.thisishcd.com/episode/dr-melvin-vopson-the-environmental-weight-of-data

 

 Video interviews with Dr Vopson:


Solve podcast:


 

Video documentaries:  




News report
 


  

BBC Brazil

 


 

Video in Polish


Video in German


 Documentary


  Academic discussion 1

Academic discussion 2

Academic discussion 3


Short video



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Video about the second law of infodynamics. 





Our Research in the Media

Here is a list of selected media articles covering the research proposed in this project. Only a fraction of the media articles have been added here. 

 

An Experiment That Could Confirm the Fifth State of Matter in the Universe – And Change Physics As We Know It

Today UK News, 30 Apr 2022

 

An Experiment That Could Confirm the Fifth State of Matter in the Universe – And Change Physics As We Know It

Scitech Daily, 29 Apr 2022

 

If the universe is a giant computer simulation, here's how many bits would be required to run it

 LiveScience, 04 Nov 2021

 

If the universe is a giant computer simulation, here's how many bits would be required to run it

 Space.com, 08 Nov 2021

 

How Much Information Is Actually Stored In The Universe? These Scientists May Have An Answer

Wonderful Engineering, 07 Nov 2021

 

New experiment could confirm the fifth state of matter

 Sign of the Times, 06 Apr 2022

 

Information Could Be the Fifth State of Matter, Proving We Live in a Simulation

Men's Health, 04 Apr 2022

 

New experiment could confirm the fifth element

Space Daily, 29 Mar 2022

 

Scientist Says That Dark Matter May Be Information Itself

Futurism, 28 Mar 2022

 

New experiment could confirm the fifth element

 Sky Nightly , 27 Mar 2022

 

Digital Data Could be Making our Planet a Bit Heavier, Claims Physicist

 Guardian mag, 26 Mar 2022

 

Digital data could be altering Earth's mass just a tiny bit, claims physicist

 MSN, 26 Mar 2022

 

Scientists conduct experiment that may change physics forever - daytonews

Day To News.com, 23 Mar 2022

 

A new experiment could confirm information as the fifth state of matter

 Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar 2022

 

Este experimento puede confirmar el quinto estado de la materia

Europa Press, 22 Mar 2022

 

New experiment could confirm the fifth element

 EurekAlert!, 21 Mar 2022

 

New experiment could confirm the fifth element

 Nanowerk, 21 Mar 2022

 

New experiment could confirm the fifth state of matter in the universe

 Phys.org, 21 Mar 2022

 

New experiment could confirm the fifth element

 Newswise, 21 Mar 2022

 

Information Could Be the 5th State of Matter, Proving We Live in a Simulation

Yahoo!, 04 Apr 2022

Information Could Be the 5th State of Matter, Proving We Live in a Simulation

Yahoo! News, 30 Mar 2022

 

Information Could Be the Fifth State of Matter

Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar 2022

The Amount of Information in the Universe

Real Clear Science, 21 Oct 2021

 

A Physicist Quantified The Amount of Information in The Entire Observable Universe

Science Alert, 20 Oct 2021

 

Is Information The Fifth State Of Matter? Physicist Aims To Prove It Is

Iflscience, 22 Mar 2022

How much information is in the universe? It's an unfathomable number

Inverse, 30 Oct 2021

 

The Demons of the Mathematicians

Medium US, 07 Dec 2020

 

Digital data could overtake Earth's actual atoms, physicist says

CNET, 14 Aug 2020

 

Digital Information Threatens to Consume The Planet’s Mass, Physicist Claims

True Viral News, 13 Aug 2020

 

Predicted 'information catastrophe' may be caused by fifth state of matter

 

Inverse, 11 Aug 2020

 

There is no dark matter. Instead, information has mass, physicist says

Big Think, 21 Jan 2020

 

The world’s data explained: how much we’re producing and where it’s all stored

 World Economic Forum, 07 May 2021

 

Physiker behaupten, digitale Daten könnten die Masse der Erde nur geringfügig verändern

Presseraum, 26 Mar 2022

 

La información sería el quinto estado de la materia en el Universo

El Periódico Extremadura, 22 Mar 2022

 

La información sería el quinto estado de la materia en el Universo

La Nueva España, 22 Mar 2022