Coupled Metronome Synchronization Live
The full interactive simulation runs as a standalone app. An embedded version is planned for this page.
What You're Seeing
N oscillators sit on a shared platform, each with its own natural frequency. The platform can move, coupling the oscillators through their shared substrate. As coupling strength increases, the oscillators' phases converge — they synchronize. The order parameter r(t) tracks how synchronized they are: r=0 means random phases, r=1 means perfect sync.
Why This Matters for Infotropy
This is record pressure at its most fundamental. Each oscillator's state becomes a constraint on the shared substrate's motion, which in turn constrains every other oscillator. The same structural pattern — accumulated records constraining future states — appears when DNA replication constrains future genomes, when legal precedent constrains future rulings, and when version control constrains future code.
Honest boundary
The metronomes are a physical model with known equations. The cross-domain pattern (record pressure) is a structural observation. The simulation demonstrates the physics accurately; the analogy to biology, law, and technology is descriptive, not mechanistically proven.