Dark matter as information

From Warren Ellis’s Orbital Operations email newsletter:

I’d tripped over an article somewhere that suggests that dark matter is the fifth form of matter, and the fifth form of matter is information. It’s everywhere but invisible because it’s cold, inert information storage stuck to the fabric of spacetime and just imperceptibly hanging out. Per quantum physics, information cannot be destroyed. Everything emits information and it has to go somewhere.

Two things:

First, that’s cool.

Second, this is the kind of stuff that I would probably not ever find/think about on my own. It’s great that there are still places like Orbital Operations where that put this kind of cool stuff in front of me.