Information as Structural Time Encoding

Shannon information theory provides the quantitative foundation for communication
and compression; Landauer’s principle connects information erasure to thermodynamic
cost; Wheeler’s “it from bit” proposes that physical reality is information-theoretic
in origin. These frameworks describe information accurately within their domains.
This paper develops the geometric substrate from which information emerges in the
Cohesion Unified Field Theory: information is structural time encoding — the pattern
of recursion rate positions, torsion density distributions, and slip phase alignments
within the continuous recursion medium. A bit is a binary structural time configuration;
a qubit is a superposed structural time configuration; memory is a stable structural
time attractor; and entanglement is shared structural time encoding, established in
the quantum measurement and quantum field papers. The new contributions of this
paper are: (1) a formal definition of information as the triple I = {R(x), ϕ(x), T(x)};
(2) the memory attractor account of classical and quantum memory; and (3) the unified
cosmological information picture in which structure formation, inflation, and dark energy
are all information flow at different scales. The framework predicts that information
is never destroyed, because R(Dst) ≥ R0 > 0 ensures recursion and structural time
encoding never fully cease. This is the first account of information as structural time
encoding within the Cohesion UFT framework.