Restoration without Rediscovery: Authentic De Novo Recreation of Lost Information in a Multiple-Worlds Setting.

A method is proposed, in principle, for restoring lost information which cannot be recovered or rediscovered from the environment by any process usually conceived within the scope of archaeology. This includes future archaeological methods that may be developed. Instead, the lost information is recreated de novo using a quantum-random process. An assumption of a multiple-worlds cosmology provides that different, lost versions of the missing information are recreated across parallel branches of reality, so that overall, there is no violation of information conservation and the restorations are all authentic. Refinements including partial restoration and use of probability weights are explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]