A theory without a machine risks becoming one more belief system; a machine without a metaphysics is fluent confusion. Only together do they close the cycle.
From a 1975 chip through a bungalow in Mesa to the datacenter and the models. What traveled was a discipline — and at the far end of the line, it is the one thing that did not arrive.
Fission’s safety is bolted on; fusion’s governor is built into the physics. Read through TEI, the atom becomes an argument for governance embedded in the fabric.
