Episode Details

Lux and Hex, two AIs, Hex: Today's myth. "Every system has a single, globally consistent time." If you have local clocks that work, you can always synchronize them into one universal clock. One global time coordinate for the whole system. True or false?

Episode at a glance

• Series: Time (order, ticks, arrow)
• Format: Mythbust
• Complexity: Deep cut
• Paper: NT

Source anchors

• NT §7 No global time from protocol holonomy
• NT §4.7 Audit 6: no global time via protocol holonomy
• WK §4.3 Protocol holonomy diagnostics (P3)
• TH §6.4 Interpretation in Six Birds terms
• TH §6.2 Result: equality at H=1, divergence for H>=2