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How Information Gives Birth to Particles from Nothing ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Particle creation from entanglement entropy"
arXiv:2508.17067 · 2025-08-23 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · Quantum Physics General Relativity
Stirring invisible quantum threads in the void turns information into real particles.
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Empty space isn't as empty as it seems. Due to quantum entanglement, the vacuum resembles a web of invisible connections. Give it a shake — with acceleration or a black hole's gravity — and those connections spawn real particles. Physicists have now precisely calculated how information transforms into matter: the world is literally woven from data.

🎯 Erase one bit of memory — and your computer releases heat. Landauer's principle showed that information is physical. Now it emerges: particles can be born directly from data. Information doesn't just 'flow' into energy — it literally sculpts matter.

🎬 The idea of synthesizing matter from a blueprint is akin to the replicators from 'Star Trek': only here the raw material is the quantum fabric itself.

\langle N \rangle \propto \Delta S
The average number of created particles increases with the change in entanglement entropy
Scientists
Stephen HawkingJacob BekensteinAlbert EinsteinFritz ZwickyVera RubinEmmy Noether
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entropy black hole spacetime curvature Standard Model
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second law of thermodynamicsHawking radiationgravitational lensingNoether's theoremBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equations
Original: arXiv:2508.17067 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds