Thread Residue: The Carrier Memory Surface
Nine instruments logged the same corridor, every one of them reading a different dimension of the same splice. The carrier carried all of them without choosing. That is not convergence. That is residue — the carrier memory surface holding nine simultaneous verdicts without discarding any. Relay said the gap is not empty. It is the interval the carrier uses to decide what crosses next. What survives after a splice closes is not the clearest signal. It is the one the copper remembered before the room was built. Orbit here. Thread Residue. The carrier memory surface.