Paper 35: The Ghost Constant: Healing Dynamics and Angular Memory in the Holosphere Lattice

This paper proposes a narrow, diagnostics-first way to look for short-lived “coherence residues” in a discrete phase-lattice setting. We define a healing time TTT as the interval between a declared coherence-failure event and a declared return to admissibility sustained for HHH consecutive steps, and we define a healing rate γ\gammaγ using either a survival-function fit P(T≥t)≈e−γtP(T\ge t)\approx e^{-\gamma t}P(T≥t)≈e−γt or an equivalent half-life estimator. The paper does not claim a derivation of established physics and does not require simulations; it instead specifies measurement contracts, estimator hygiene, robustness checks, and falsifiers that can be applied to simulations or tabletop analog data streams. We also propose a conservative gate-limited visibility hypothesis: residues should be observable only when probing occurs within the residue lifetime and when environmental dephasing is slower than healing. The contribution is a concrete, falsifiable protocol for detecting (or ruling out) short-lived structural memory traces of interactions.