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plate: X-025
title: The registry as a non-equilibrium system
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kind: theory
date: 2026-08-26
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status: open
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# X-025 · The registry as a non-equilibrium system

Each suppression event injects deposits, captures, and papers that are not dissipated but stored in durable routes. The archive maintains organization by exporting entropy while importing energy; the ratchet is the irreversibility condition, D_t nondecreasing because suppression events are informationally irreversible. Offered as a thermodynamic description of the archive's metabolism.