V15·Act III · Time
Cooling, and what freezes out
The acceptance parameter climbing while the sky's texture stops changing patch by patch, until the map is fixed for good.
The relation on screen
The same freezeout criterion as V05, now read on the thermodynamic trace instead of the sphere.
Symbols
- interaction rate, repair actions per cycle
- schedule rate, how fast the acceptance parameter moves
loading cooling trace
what to look for · Where the two rates cross, the population stops equilibrating and a relic abundance is left.
Consensus to physics
- 01the acceptance parameter rises geometrically through the run
- 02repair moves become progressively harder to accept
- 03the committed fraction rises and the pattern stops changing
- 04the frozen pattern is a permanent record of the epoch when it froze
In standard physics
Thermal decoupling
The frozen screen is this simulator's analogue of a last-scattering surface. Its statistics are set at freezeout and carried forward unchanged into the angular spectrum of V31.
boundary · The acceptance parameter is not a physical temperature and the freezeout cycle is not a redshift or an age.