IPI Letters

Information-Driven Innovation in Energy: Toward Sustainable Models for Energy Patent Start-Ups

Rocco Morelli — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0300

In modern economies, especially in the EU, one of the main ways to finance and launch innovative businesses is through regulations regarding start-ups. This route seems problematic for some new patents, particularly in the energy sector when they require an experimental phase, being based on conceptual projects. Below we briefly reflect on some possible reasons for this problem and highlight aspects that could be useful for improving the regulation, so that it can facilitate the financing of the necessary experiments (or industrial prototype development) and therefore effectively promote innovation and sustainability possibly in a framework of ESG Management.

Response to Sabine Hossenfelder’s Commentary on Vopson’s Paper: Is gravity evidence of a computational universe?

Melvin M. Vopson — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0300

On April 25, 2025, Melvin M. Vopson published a theoretical study proposing a novel derivation of Newtonian gravity [1] from information-theoretic principles, through the lens of the second law of infodynamics [2,3]. Shortly thereafter, on May 28, Sabine Hossenfelder released a video commentary critiquing the paper [4]. For maximum transparency, we extracted the full transcript of her video and we included it for our readers in the Appendix of this article. In her video, Sabine Hossenfelder criticizes Vopson’s article, suggesting that it contains mathematical errors, contradicts established principles like entropy, and misinterprets the concept of information. She concludes that the paper ”makes no sense at all” and ”shouldn’t have been published.” While constructive critique is essential for scientific progress, we must hold it to the same standards of specificity and rigor that we expect of published papers. Hossenfelder’s video provides no explicit mathematical rebuttal, specific citations, or reproducible counter-examples beyond verbal critiques and high-level subjective objections. In this report, we address the key issues she raises and offer detailed responses grounded in the content and logic of the original paper.

Anisotropic Semi-Dirac Inertial Mass: The Spatial Encoding Hypothesis

Richard Phillips — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0300

Recent observations of anisotropic particle behavior, most prominently semi-Dirac fermions with direction-dependent inertial mass in ZrSiS, have been interpreted strictly as band-structure curiosities. We propose the more fundamental mechanism of oscillatory spatial encoding, where particles are stable standingwave loops of spacetime, not point objects or strings moving in it. In this picture, loop geometry builds axisspecific curvature, so direction-dependent mass and velocity arise automatically. Magneto-optical and ARPES data - including the hallmark B2/3 Landau-level scaling and strong velocity anisotropy - match the model with no free parameters. By marrying higher-dimensional string-theoretic geometry to an intuitive informationtheoretic mechanism, the framework clarifies these anisotropies and eases long-standing point–string tensions.
The wider implications for unification, quantum gravity, and cosmology are speculatively noted but left for future work.

The Magnetic Monopole and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect

Rodney Bartlett — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0300

A very interesting comment by Nobel laureate Gerard‘t Hooft is the “discovery that unifying the forces of physics requires the existence of magnetic monopoles”. We examine this proposal through the prism of the Aharonov–Bohm effect.

Darkmatter, Supersolidity and Possible Implications

Sisir Roy, Malabika Roy — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0300