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This is the same guy who reckons dark matter may be down to "information-mass".

Apparently he says you can prove information has mass by weighing a hard drive and measuring the difference when it's "full" and "empty".

https://www.technology.org/2020/01/24/physicist-proposes-a-t...

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5123794

That paper is referenced in the one in the OP.

This is an actual physicist working for an actual university.

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Explains why I’m getting heavier each year

perhaps we shouldn't be so quick to dismiss the idea, as there's an interesting link with emergent gravity, the central claim of which is that the density of quantum entanglement in a volume is proportional to how strongly space curves there.

I was pretty dismissive but I'm not qualified to judge whether it's crackpot or a category misunderstanding (eg drives weigh differently according to the configuration of data on them, but not relevent to information itself).

If it's crackpot, I'd love it to be true, it's so simple sounding.

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