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Particle Life · 2-D phase diagram

Can an emergent world be mapped like a real substance — into phases, on a diagram of its own control parameters?

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How the lab tests it

Cross the two axes the lab already measured one at a time. At each cell of a μ × α grid set the matrix to S + α·Q + μ — the mean interaction μ (added to every entry, the condensation knob) against the non-reciprocity α (how much of the genome's own asymmetry Q to mix in) — and read the bound fraction (condensation) and the activity ⟨|v|⟩ (motion), painting a heat-grid (green = condensed, red = active).

What it looks for

TWO roughly independent axes carving FOUR regimes: μ sets whether the field is BOUND (gas → condensate), α sets whether it MOVES (static → active) — giving gas (dispersed, still), static condensate (clumped, still), active gas (dispersed, chasing) and active condensate (clumped, churning). The whole α=0 edge has net drift EXACTLY zero (reciprocal ⇒ momentum conserved) at every μ — the rigorous static line (the colour shows the activity ⟨|v|⟩, the indicative measure; the drift is the rigorous active witness). Honest: single seed, single pass with carry-over (μ swept monotonically, so the condensation boundary carries the known Δμ≈0.04 hysteresis and is settle-smeared); μ capped at +0.2 because beyond it the dense condensate jiggles on the close-range repulsion and ⟨|v|⟩ stops meaning 'active' (the matrix itself stays only lightly clamped). The lab's #1 frontier — a first phase map of an emergent world

This is one world in the PHS lab — 91 interactive simulations, each posing a question and measuring the answer. See the catalogued findings.