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

Now, one theoretical physicist posits an even more radical notion. What if dark matter didn’t exist at all? Dr. Melvin Vopson of the University of Portsmouth, in the UK, has a hypothesis he calls the mass-energy-information equivalence. It states that information is the fundamental building block of the universe, and it has mass. This accounts for the missing mass within galaxies, thus eliminating the hypothesis of dark matter entirely.

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