Bounce Theory III — The Growth, the Clock, and the End

The third paper in this series states the completed walk: the morning of October 28, 2026, when the theory's open forks were answered in eleven answers before the program's own deadline. The pull's life is specified end to end: its strength is set by the gathered dark on one smooth curve, strong early in the gathering and easing as it nears full. Our own pool is still gathering — the pop is still ahead. The fossil of the second paper, the pull's strength at our cut at 11/400 of full, is therefore also a time: read through the candidate growth law this paper states at its true grade, our cut sits 121/160000 of the way through the gathering. The program fired that candidate — strength as the root of the gathered share — at the author's instruction, and priced it the same morning: wounded as fired, killed in the closed dress the record owns, and standing in the open dress at premise grade, its exponent carried by one named premise (the strength tracks the span of what has gathered), not derived. At the end of the life the accounts close exactly: the twist hits the Aldred cap exactly at the pop, the seam's residue is spent, and nothing falls back. The residue is a clock: the seam's number grows from 2.055 at our cut to 4.000 at the pop, and a second-tense readout of the pull would measure the growth exponent directly. The conversion is not derived. Both locks stand to the digit: Lock 1 at 121.5 dex, Lock 2 at 0.011782 dex. The program's sealed prediction of a solve by this morning is graded in its record NOT SOLVED / PARTIAL, and the paper says so.