There are a number of clues to the nature of a DM particle. The first has to do with stability. A particle has to be stable for some period of time. This means that the machinery that gives a particle its nature, must be relatively impervious to the effects of other, non-interacting particles that pass nearby. Every particle has energy, momentum, spin state, charge and all particles are capable of motion. What is different about a particle, consistent with Digital Philosophy, is that it is a little machine where we can find the digital information that represents its energy, velocity, spin, momentum, charge and other characteristics. In addition, there might be magnetic dipole orientation and other forms of internal state information. Further, the particle must have the informational mechanisms that convert the digital information into the action and characteristics so specified. If the velocity is represented by digital information, then the process must look at that information and move the particle (along with all the information) according to the velocity). If a photon accelerates the particle, the momentum vector information in the photon must get added to or subtracted from the momentum vector information in the particle.
We already understand many characteristics and attributes of particles and al these attributes will need to be incorporated into a DM model. A good example is the wave structures related to the particles momentum and energy. There is a lot of experimental data and theory that lets us understand many aspects of particles, at various scales of length.
Beyond a particle’s internal information are the mechanisms that interpret that information to produce the actual motion and other behavior of the particle. It seems reasonable that the mechanism of motion is very similar for all particles. DP supports the possibility of representing velocity information by an extended wave structure. It seems likely that representation of the energy of a particle is more compact. While we already know a lot, a great deal of effort will have to go into some kind of combination of efforts ranging from trial and error to the sort of engineering that goes into the design of computer logic or mechanical devices. Of course, if we’re lucky, some clever theorist will figure it out.
