Voigt Effect - Substrate-Dependent Structural Evolution Under Repeated Stress in Computational Systems - Multi-Environment Empirical Evidence with Temporal Stability Metrics

This work introduces and empirically validates the Voigt Effect, a structural phenomenon in computational systems in which repeated stress cycles lead to persistent transformation of the system’s baseline, even after apparent operational recovery. Through controlled experiments conducted across multiple execution substrates — including a virtualized Linux VPS environment (Munich) and two bare-metal Windows systems with different hardware capacities — this study demonstrates that identical stress conditions can produce fundamentally divergent structural outcomes. The results show that: Virtualized systems exhibit progressive structural degradation, with Time-To-Risk (TTC) decreasing across stress cycles and stabilizing at lower baselines Bare-metal systems exhibit elastic recovery, restoring or even improving their structural baseline after stress Structural evolution is independent of raw hardware capacity and instead governed by the execution substrate These findings establish that computational stability is: time-dependent history-dependent substrate-conditioned The study introduces a formalization of structural evolution using TTC as a temporal metric and defines the structural delta (ΔB) across stress cycles, revealing distinct regimes of degradation and recovery. Critically, this work demonstrates that: Operational recovery does not imply structural equivalence. The Voigt Effect represents the first empirically observed phenomenon within the Voigtian Field, bridging theoretical formulation and real-world system behavior. This work contributes to a new paradigm in computational observability, where systems must be understood as temporally evolving structures, rather than static operational states.