Temporal Drag

Temporal Drag is the computational resistance that slows time in deeper recursive layers, lengthening each pulse cycle quadratically with recursion depth as computational complexity accumulates. The book treats time here as emerging from accumulated computational complexity rather than as a fixed backdrop. Each deeper layer carries more accumulated load, so its cycles run longer and its pulse frequency falls; the book develops this in Part 7.4 through the Recursive Pulse Cycle Time, Pulse Frequency Deceleration, the Temporal Drag Equation, a viscous-drag analogy and the Integrated Temporal Evolution. The same mechanism gives depth-dependent stability: in Part 7.6, Temporal Drag lengthens the persistence of forms in deeper layers, and together with the Phase-Locked Domains of the Resonant Field of Becoming it underpins the Field-to-Form Transition. The current definition states the quadratic dilation as T_n = T_0 × (n + 1)², where T_n is the cycle time at recursion depth n, T_0 the prime pulse duration and n the recursion depth; a depth-n cycle spans (n + 1)² ticks, while the tick itself, T_0 = ①⥂⧗⌂, is the same at every depth. It connects to Recursive Pulse Cycle Time, Temporal Drag Equation, Temporal Drag Force Analog, Integrated Temporal Evolution, Pulse Frequency Deceleration and Form Persistence Time.