Convergence 5: First acoustic topological space-time crystals

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Michael Darius Eastwood
Michael Darius Eastwood · Independent AI alignment researcher
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Michael Darius Eastwood · Research Notes · 3 July 2026 · Part of the Research evidence spine
Michael Darius Eastwood, independent researcher, London: originator of the embedded-correction alignment thesis (manuscript 8 December 2024, SHA-256 anchored: f0d1f38f).
Register entry 5 of 19. Domain: Acoustics. Institution: Zhang/Yang et al.. External date: 2026-02. Measured against: A4 (concurrent with Paper III). Classification: CONVERGENT.
Primary source: Newton 2, 100334

What happened

First acoustic topological space-time crystals.

Why it is in the register

Topological space-time crystals in acoustics arrived in the same month that Paper III mapped time crystals onto the framework's saturating regime. The convergence claim is again structural: non-equilibrium order sustained by periodic driving is the same shape the framework assigns to bounded recursive systems. Two independent experimental programmes reaching that regime within weeks of the framework's classification is what the register exists to record.

How to check this entry

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