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What happens when multiple authorities periodically “align” a system to their own un‑entrained clocks?

Watch dots (metronomes) naturally entrain via weak coupling. Then enable one or two managers who periodically snap a metronome to an external reference phase. The result: reduced coherence and, with two competing references, entrainment opportunity is destroyed.

Metronomes

Red Manager

Blue Manager

Controls

Enable Red Manager Enable Blue Manager Intervention cadence (seconds) 2.0 Coupling strength (entrainment pull) 0.85 Noise (jitter) 0.08 External pull (how hard managers snap) 1.00

Reset phases Pause

Sync a metronome → Red Sync a metronome → Blue

Tip: enable both managers, set cadence to ~1–2s, and watch coherence collapse.

Readout

Coherence measures how clustered the metronomes are (1 = fully entrained, 0 = fully scattered).

Coherence

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Interventions

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State

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Alignment imposed from outside breaks entrainment.
You don’t need more alignment. You need better timing.