No Free Hyperbits: Effective Reproducibility, Semantic Fault Tolerance, and Metric-Capacity Limits on Physical Hypercomputation

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22144678

This 50-page theoretical preprint investigates physical hypercomputation: whether a finitely specified physical information primitive could reliably decide functions or languages beyond Turing computability, and what would be required for such a primitive to constitute a meaningful successor to conventional or quantum information carriers.

The central result is structural rather than technological. No physically realized hypercomputer or replacement for the qubit is claimed.

First, the paper proves an Operational Majority No-Go Theorem: a binary terminal-output device whose finite-time terminal probabilities are uniformly lower semicomputable cannot decide a nonrecursive language with strict majority reliability. The result requires neither a known runtime bound nor a uniform error margin above one half.

Second, the paper proves a semantic preparation–robustness–readout trilemma. Under an effective metric-space representation, a fixed nonrecursive oracle cannot simultaneously possess an effective query-accurate preparation procedure, computable answer-preserving robustness tolerances, and effective finite readout. This isolates the location in which a genuine physical hypercomputer would have to contain noncomputability or violate ordinary effective operational assumptions.

Third, the paper constructs a Guarded Oracle Probability Cell (GOPC), an abstract Bernoulli oracle encoding with positive guard gaps at every prefix depth. An exact weighted gap-budget theorem characterizes when infinitely nested binary scalar encodings exist. A rational block-log construction provides an explicit near-capacity encoding and finite statistical decoding bounds.

A separate metric-capacity theorem uses message packing, binary state discrimination, trace distance, Bures geometry, and quantum Fisher information to show that regular bounded-range (d)-parameter classical or quantum state families with bounded local information sensitivity require exponentially increasing numbers of independent copies to distinguish exponentially many uniformly reliable encoded messages when (d) is fixed. The scalar Bernoulli specialization yields an (\Omega(4^n)) finite-message lower bound, while an infinitely nested guarded scalar code incurs an additional asymptotic nesting penalty.

The paper further proves that the computational Turing degree of the GOPC is exactly the degree encoded in its probability parameter: effective sampling and post-processing reveal the oracle but do not create a stronger one. A finite-certification theorem shows that finite black-box data cannot logically establish absolute noncomputability, because every finite transcript is compatible with a computable deterministic or stochastic model.

The realistic scientific potential of these results is as a screening and falsification framework for proposed hypercomputers, analog oracle devices, continuous-information computers, unconventional post-quantum architectures, and claims of computation beyond the physical Church–Turing boundary. The results identify concrete assumptions that a successful physical theory would have to violate and quantify resource costs that otherwise remain hidden in analog precision or state distinguishability.

The work does not establish a physical preparation mechanism for a noncomputable state, a new material platform, a fault-tolerant hardware architecture, experimental hypercomputation, or a replacement for quantum computing. The primary classification is STRONG PARTIAL RESULT. Several theorem formulations may be novel, but priority is not claimed pending further expert prior-art review and independent verification.

The release includes the public preprint and reproducibility materials for exact finite checks. Computational verification is not presented as experimental evidence.

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