We were asking
Does the topology response at q48 represent genuine fission or an earlier susceptibility in the body's surface layer?
Flow Lenia / body
The Mature Body Frays Before It Divides
A q48 causal-order effect increased thresholded component counts, but the extra pieces were mostly tiny, mid-density peripheral structures rather than macroscopic daughters.
librarytopology and lineage analysis
This experiment found
The signal vanished when components had to carry even a small fraction of total mass, so the experiment found density-specific fraying rather than a rise in daughter incidence.
That sent us to
Can a surface-targeted intervention amplify that susceptibility until material partitions into persistent daughters?