librons

Librons are a fictional or speculative concept used to describe discrete quanta that carry information between memory states within a hypothetical physical medium. The term is an informal coinage that blends notions of information storage with fundamental quanta; there is no standard, real-world definition or observation of librons.

In common fictional treatments, librons resemble boson-like quanta that can be created or annihilated and that encode information in their internal state rather than in classical energy alone. They are imagined as mediating the transfer of data across memory registers, enabling reversible computation and complex information processing without violating basic physical constraints. Some models treat one libron as representing a single unit of information, while more elaborate versions allow a spectrum of information quanta.

They are typically depicted as interacting weakly with the surrounding environment, permitting retention of information across cycles or steps of computation, and obeying conservation of information in the sense that information can be moved but not freely created or destroyed in isolation (in these models).

Because librons are not part of established physics and have no experimental basis, they remain a conceptual tool used in science fiction, thought experiments in quantum information, and speculative discussions about memory architectures and data integrity.