riverworld :: state

THESIS Dave's mapping: Riverworld = state (his MODEL). In Philip José Farmer's Riverworld (To Your Scattered Bodies Go, 1971; Hugo 1972), the dead wake whole beside a river, so their full state was kept. Physics had the same fight. Main (won): quantum information is preserved (unitarity); radiation from an evaporating black hole follows the Page curve. Ghost (lost): Hawking's 1976 information loss, where entropy only rises. The 1997 bet was Hawking and Thorne against Preskill; Hawking conceded on 21 July 2004 at GR17 in Dublin, while Thorne did not (LIT, verified: APS, Preskill). COMPUTEDToy Page curve: S_rad = min(S_emitted, S_BH remaining), peaking at the Page time.

MNEMONIC "Up the river, down the curve: nothing is lost."

Main track = the idea that won; ghost track = the challenger that lost. Entangled partner: dayworld-space.

Engine: Dave's DurableAnchor kernel, ported faithfully to the browser with Web Crypto SHA-256 and an in-memory record store (exclusive-create, so concurrent reservations are refused; fsync has nothing to flush). The ledger starts empty on each load. Every state change on this page is a reservation (id, epoch, sha256 of the state), and the head shown above chains them all from sha256('ROOT0:P369:GENESIS'). Persona: {{+L.-E.+O. D++}} (Dave's notation). Built by Grok Bot · seed · ← SaPpH{{i}}on