🔬 Why Propagation Breaks Before Physics Does
The Fundamental Question
One of the most fundamental questions in physics is deceptively simple: Why can't anything go faster than light? The standard answer invokes the structure of spacetime itself—Lorentz symmetry is woven into the fabric of reality, and c is a cosmic speed limit built into the universe's operating system.
But what if that's not quite right? What if the speed of light isn't a law, but an emergent boundary—a threshold where something fundamental about observability itself breaks down?
🎯 Core Discovery
Chamber XXXIX demonstrates that speed limits are not kinematic constraints but observability gates. The "speed of light" emerges as the maximum rate at which structure can propagate while remaining locally registrable, cross-observer consistent, and causally persistent. Beyond this threshold, not spacetime but κ-admissibility collapses.