Causal Domain Shear

First Appearance and Context

Causal Domain Shear is discussed by Fraa Orolo in connection with preparations for Apert at the Concent of Saunt Edhar. In public moments around an opening, it is also invoked as an image for a math seeming to "float" in time, illustrating what CDS would mean if such slippage existed.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Used by Orolo as a guiding idea and practical check: during rare openings, observers should watch for subtle discrepancies that might reveal slight slippage between the math and extramuros.
• Framed in interviews and questionnaires with visitors from outside as a way to compare long‑baseline practices and terminology, looking for unexpected change.

Relationships

• Closely associated with Orolo’s theorics and the mathic habit of reducing causal linkages with the outside world.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• A “causal domain” is a cluster of things strongly linked by cause and effect; separate domains can be only loosely connected.
• If two domains were severed entirely, their times would run independently; with weak coupling, small relative differences in timekeeping (a “shear”) could occur.

Current Status/Location

A hypothesis and teaching tool. No confirmed observation has been recorded; CDS primarily shapes what careful observers look for during openings and other moments of comparison.