A technological capability scale for civilizations from the Kardashev and Barrow scales

arXiv:2609.35237 · quant-ph, gr-qc, physics.soc-ph · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, gr-qc, physics.soc-ph

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Energy Efficiency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Entanglement — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Data — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Roadmap for Devices and Systems — 1× in this paper
• Momentum transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The Cognitive Kardashev Scale: Quantifying the Material Envelope of Civilisational Computation
• Kardashev's Conundrum: Statistical Falsification of Exponential Energy Growth, the Non-Observation of Type II Technosignatures, and the Kardashev-Sagan-Nakamoto Resolution
• Black Holes: Attractors for Intelligence?
• The Search for Technosignatures: a Review of Possibilities
• Energy efficiency of quantum computers

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