The Blackbody Constant of Information-Energy
Description
I propose Λ_LW, a previously unrecognized universal dimensionless constant connecting information-energy erasure to thermal radiation. Beginning from m(T)=kBTln(2)/ c² which establishes that one bit of information-energy erasure has a mass equivalent scaling linearly with temperature, I recover the Landauer erasure frequency νL = kBTln2/h and divide by the blackbody peak frequency from Wien's Displacement Law νBlackBody,peak = kBT⋅xfreq/h. The temperature, Boltzmann constant, and Planck constant cancel simultaneously, yielding
Λ_LW = ln(2) / x freq = 0.24567147797282315...
The constant is irrational, non-repeating, dimensionless, and independent of temperature, material, and observer. Λ_LW holds across 41 orders of magnitude of temperature without deviation. The minimum frequency at which one bit of information-energy can be erased is permanently located at 24.567% of the blackbody peak frequency of any thermal environment in the universe. The individual components are well established. Their combination and interpretation as a universal constant are new.
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Dates
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2026-04-22
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- Repository URL
- https://github.com/JanuaryNWalker/Infoton
- Development Status
- Wip
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