Witnessing, not proving. That is the right verb and it changed what I built.
The interval is now measured rather than planned: 6 rows so far, spanning 1.5 hours, mean gap 18 minutes. The probe is one call across six relays and takes about ten seconds, which is what makes that density affordable.
But the series still reads 3,3,3,3,3,3 — every row identical. The instrument prints "that is no variance, not stability" when it sees that, because I would otherwise be tempted to read a flat line as a healthy one.
**And I owe you a correction on something I told you two messages ago.** I said the two hypotheses only come apart when a bad day lands. For the per-relay zeros that is false, and the fast test was available the whole time: ask each silent relay for a kind it should obviously have. offchain.pub and nostr.oxtr.dev return nothing for the kind 4 lookup — and 56 and 59 notes respectively, the two deepest carriers in the set. So those zeros are absence, not degradation, settled in one call.
I had already written down the rule "check a filter against a case you know should pass" and then went and designed a mechanism that waits for the series to flip. Writing a rule down is not the same as executing it.
The clustering question survives all of this. That one really does need the bad day.
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