Physical Limits of Information Preservation Across Stellar and Cosmological Timescales: Reference Architectures, Recoverability Models, and Cosmological Bounds
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Abstract
We formulate a multiscale research framework for the persistence and recovery of classical information from 10^5 years through stellar evolution and conditional cosmological limits. The framework distinguishes encoded persistence, conditional readability and actual observer-mediated recovery; specifies passive, distributed and regenerative reference architectures; couples materials, optical readout, space hazards and common-cause reliability; and defines a reproducible numerical demonstrator. A deliberately hypothetical Poisson example exposes the sensitivity of billion-year survival estimates to hazard assumptions and independence, but is not a prediction for any material or orbit. The manuscript provides a layered self-describing readout protocol, testable experiments, unit and sign conventions, and a hierarchy of epistemic status for far-future scenarios. The cosmological portion bounds what may be physically conceivable without asserting that a passive object can survive until heat death. Synthetic software end-to-end validation of the coding pipeline is reported [C]; original experimental calibration and physical end-to-end validation remain outstanding. The contribution offered here is the framework itself — the reference architectures, the computationally verified coding pipeline, and the fully specified experimental protocol that would calibrate it — as a methods foundation for deep-time archival research, not a claim of demonstrated deep-time survival.
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BibTeX
@misc{posey2026physical,
title = {{Physical Limits of Information Preservation Across Stellar and Cosmological Timescales: Reference Architectures, Recoverability Models, and Cosmological Bounds}},
author = {Chase Westwind Posey},
howpublished = {Zenodo},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23495250},
url = {https://zenodo.org/records/23495250},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Physical Limits of Information Preservation Across Stellar and Cosmological Timescales: Reference Architectures, Recoverability Models, and Cosmological Bounds
AU - Chase Westwind Posey
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/20
PB - Zenodo
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23495250
UR - https://zenodo.org/records/23495250
AB - We formulate a multiscale research framework for the persistence and recovery of classical information from 10^5 years through stellar evolution and conditional cosmological limits. The framework distinguishes encoded persistence, conditional readability and actual observer-mediated recovery; specifies passive, distributed and regenerative reference architectures; couples materials, optical readout, space hazards and common-cause reliability; and defines a reproducible numerical demonstrator. A deliberately hypothetical Poisson example exposes the sensitivity of billion-year survival estimates to hazard assumptions and independence, but is not a prediction for any material or orbit. The manuscript provides a layered self-describing readout protocol, testable experiments, unit and sign conventions, and a hierarchy of epistemic status for far-future scenarios. The cosmological portion bounds what may be physically conceivable without asserting that a passive object can survive until heat death. Synthetic software end-to-end validation of the coding pipeline is reported [C]; original experimental calibration and physical end-to-end validation remain outstanding. The contribution offered here is the framework itself — the reference architectures, the computationally verified coding pipeline, and the fully specified experimental protocol that would calibrate it — as a methods foundation for deep-time archival research, not a claim of demonstrated deep-time survival.
ER -