The Wound
The Dimming
The permanent, measurable cooling of the sky in the wake of the network's expansion.
In full
Real, permanent, and slow enough on Earth to file under stellar cycles — roughly half a degree every five years in the climate record. That ease of dismissal is the point: a civilisation can look straight at an instrument telling it the truth and read it as noise, because the alternative is unaffordable. Two generations on it is common knowledge and comfortably mis-modelled.
Key facts
- About −0.5 °C per five years in the Earth climate record.
- Trivially filed under ordinary stellar variation.
- Known and priced in — under a model that turns out to be wrong.
- Named and public well before anyone understands how it actually behaves.