Tag Archive for 'Information'

Scholars argue that consciousness is a fundamental quality of the Universe. Image credit: NASA / ESA / JPL-Caltech / STScI / Sci-News.com.

Seven-Year Experiment Uncovers New Insights into Nature of Consciousness

May 1, 2025 by News Staff

A multinational team of neuroscientists has tested two competing theories of consciousness: the integrated information theory (IIT) and the global neuronal...

The 5D memory crystal. Image credit: University of Southampton.

Researchers Store Entire Human Genome on ‘Everlasting’ 5D Memory Crystal

Sep 20, 2024 by News Staff

Unlike other data storage formats that degrade over time, 5D memory crystals can store up to 360 terabytes of information without loss for billions of...

Bagherian et al. compared classical computing techniques for compressing data with potential quantum compression techniques. Image credit: Garik Barseghyan.

Researchers Seek to Define Quantum Data Compression

Apr 19, 2023 by News Staff

In a new review paper, scientists from the Quantum Information Science Section at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Michigan presented...

Quantum scrambling is one suggestion for how information can fall into a black hole and come out as random-looking radiation. Perhaps, the argument goes, it is not random at all, and black holes are just excellent scramblers. Image credit: E. Edwards / Joint Quantum Institute.

Hairy Black Holes Explain Hawking’s Paradox, Physicists Claim

Mar 22, 2022 by News Staff

The signature feature of black holes is that they are black — objects which fall into the hole can no longer be seen and can no longer influence...

The mass-energy-information equivalence principle proposed in 2019 and the information content of the observable matter in the Universe estimated in 2021 represent two important conjectures, called the information conjectures. Combining information theory and physical principles of thermodynamics, these theoretical proposals made specific predictions about the mass of information as well as the most probable information content per elementary particle. Dr. Vopson proposes an experimental protocol that allows for empirical verification of the information conjectures by confirming the predicted information content of elementary particles. Image credit: Pete Linforth.

Newly Proposed Experiment Could Confirm that Information is Fifth State of Matter

Mar 21, 2022 by News Staff

Dr. Melvin Vopson, a physicist with the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Portsmouth, has already published research suggesting that...

Blázquez-Salcedo et al. constructed a specific example of a class of traversable wormholes in four space-time dimensions. Image credit: NASA / G. Bacon, STScI.

New Theoretical Study Sheds Light on How Information Escapes from Evaporating Black Hole

Mar 11, 2022 by News Staff

An international team of physicists from RIKEN, Cornell University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, has used a new spacetime geometry with...

Professor McFadden argues that consciousness implements algorithms in space, rather than time, within the brain’s electromagnetic field. Image credit: Gerd Altmann.

Consciousness is Brain’s Information-Rich Energy Field, Remarkable New Theory Says

Oct 21, 2020 by News Staff

Consciousness is physically integrated, and causally active, information encoded in the brain’s global electromagnetic field, according to the conscious...