The Dark Matter Clock Speed Anomaly: Topological Halos as Compute Cores in a Distributed Spacetime

The current Paper 62 benchmark does not claim that continuum dark matter or relativistic proper time has already been derived from first principles inside QGEFT. It does show that the verified warm-started `N=1024` live vacuum supports a stable computational asymmetry between sectors. Across `100` sweeps, the halo region produces `1884` wormhole-like shortcut-birth events while the vacuum produces only `613`, yielding a normalized halo birth-rate advantage of `3.073409x`. The defensible conclusion is therefore that dark halos act here as persistent high-activity topological compute cores rather than as passive background scaffolds.