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MackTuesday t1_iwr7dzb wrote

It would take a *vast* amount of information to account for the mass of dark matter in the observable universe, something like 10^80 bits, and that's for a small, warm universe. For our big, cold universe, it would be much more.

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gurbblurb t1_iwrj1gp wrote

It says in the article that they estimated around 52 x 10^96 bits in the observable universe.

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fullawe t1_iwsq6gr wrote

The theory posts that every particle interaction requires an information particle, so there would be many orders of magnitude more information particles than regular particles.

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