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 compare intramuros and extramuros details for subtle discrepancies that might reveal slight slippage between loosely coupled domains.
  • Framed in interviews and questionnaires with visitors as a way to compare long‑baseline practices and terminology, looking for unexpected change.
  • Sometimes mentioned alongside the Ten-Thousand-Year Math as an illustrative extreme of isolation and perceived time slip.

Relationships

  • Closely associated with Orolo’s theorics and the mathic habit of limiting causal linkages with the outside world.
  • Connected in anecdotes to the Ten‑Thousand‑Year Math as a way to imagine extreme separation.

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. Among fids, attitudes vary: some treat it skeptically as lore used to keep interest; others use it as a practical lens.

Summary:

A thought experiment about slight time slippage between loosely linked causal domains. Introduced and applied by Fraa Orolo as a practical lens for noticing unexpected divergences between life inside a math and the world outside.

Known as:
CDSThe Causal Domain Shear