The Pinned Splinter, and the Direction

The +1×ε never leaves the AS, because leaving is coupling, coupling is the bare 1:1, and the bare 1:1 is nothing. The now is permanently occupied; the occupant is why there is a next instant.

From this, the direction lemma, closed in three lines. Net-return is the healing direction — the world un-actualizing — and the pinned splinter forbids healing. The axiom’s surplus carries a sign: 1:1 plus 1×ε, the extra on the actualization side. Therefore the net is going.

Expansion, not contraction, from a plus sign.