The mass-energy-information equivalence principle
The mass-energy-information equivalence principle
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DOI：
10.1063/1.5123794
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发表时间：
2019-09-01
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影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Vopson, Melvin M.
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作者：
Vopson, Melvin M.
1961年形成的兰道尔原理指出，逻辑不可逆性意味着物理不可逆性，并证明了信息是物理的。在这里，我们提出了一个新的质量-能量-信息等价原理，提出了一点信息不仅是物理的，正如已经证明的那样，它在存储信息的同时具有有限的和可量化的质量。在这个框架下，在室温(300K)下，信息比特的质量为3.19×10(-38)kg。为了验证这一假设，我们在这里提出了一个实验，预测当充满数字信息时，数据存储设备的质量相对于其处于擦除状态的质量将略有增加。对于1TB设备，估计质量变化为2.5x10(-25)千克。
Landauer's principle formulated in 1961 states that logical irreversibility implies physical irreversibility and demonstrated that information is physical. Here we formulate a new principle of mass-energy-information equivalence proposing that a bit of information is not just physical, as already demonstrated, but it has a finite and quantifiable mass while it stores information. In this framework, it is shown that the mass of a bit of information at room temperature (300K) is 3.19 x 10(-38) Kg. To test the hypothesis we propose here an experiment, predicting that the mass of a data storage device would increase by a small amount when is full of digital information relative to its mass in erased state. For 1Tb device the estimated mass change is 2.5 x 10(-25) Kg.