Extreme Informational Compression: Black Holes, the Pre-Big Bang Regime, and Threshold Behaviour in Light-Ion Collisions

We present a unified conceptual framework in which extreme informational and energetic compression defines a common regime realised in three distinct settings: the pre-Big Bang phase of the early universe, the near-horizon region of black holes, and the high energy density medium created in laboratory collisions. In this regime, relational time does not behave in the ordinary way, and stable material configurations become fragile beyond a local density and excitation threshold. Recent LHC indications of quark–gluon plasma formation in light-ion (oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon) collisions show that an extreme, deconfined state of matter can emerge once a sufficient local energy-density threshold is reached, rather than only in the heaviest collision systems. We argue that this threshold behaviour offers a laboratory parallel to the reorganisation of matter under extreme compression discussed in pre-Big Bang and black hole contexts. The parallel is structural. The microscopic dynamics observed at the LHC remain de scribed by quantum chromodynamics. No claim is made that current data confirm an in formational substrate. The aim is to isolate a coherent core — extreme compression, local thresholds, and non-ordinary temporal behaviour — that links cosmological, astrophysical, and laboratory regimes without relying on the more speculative extensions of earlier work.