I fail to see how it's relevant here, but physical bits certainly do rot. This is known as bit rot, data rot, data decay or data degradation. See https://en.w

I fail to see how it's relevant here, but physical bits certainly do rot. This is known as bit rot, data rot, data decay or data degradation. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation#Decay_of_storage_media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation#Decay_of_stor...