Registry · Remark
V.R25
tau-effective
formalized
V.R25 — Ignition is not a phase transition
Ignition is not a thermodynamic phase transition or symmetry-breaking event but a readout threshold: the point at which the refinement tower has accumulated enough structure for proper-time readout to become operationally distinguishable from proto-time counting. The tower's structure does not change at n_ign.
Book V
Part 1
Ch. 5