The Wound
Metric noise
also: astronomical-confidence degradation
Degrading spacetime cannot be measured precisely — so the instruments quietly lose decimal places.
In full
One of the era's most deniable observables: astronomical-confidence instruments start dropping precision, not because they are failing but because the metric they are measuring has become too noisy to pin down. A degrading region resists measurement. That is inconvenient for astronomers and extremely convenient for anyone who would rather not know.
Key facts
- Instruments lose precision, not calibration.
- The noise is in reality, not the apparatus.
- Trivially attributed to equipment.
- Grows with depletion.