2604.00576 Infoseismology: Modeling the Physical Dynamics of Information Aftershocks, Epidemics, and Entropy in a 19-Year Tech Community Archive
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Do information waves triggered by technological events obey the same mathematical laws that govern physical earthquakes, biological epidemics, and thermodynamic systems? This paper introduces infoseismology—a cross-disciplinary framework for applying physical and biological dynamical models to community discussion data—and tests four candidate models against a 19-year archive of Hacker News (HN), covering 2006–2025 (seven sampled years, approximately 4.