This appendix provides minimal mathematical tools to make the idea of an “horizon”
readable as a regime limit: the equator (compression) and the poles (expansion)
both tend toward the same operational infinity.
1) Zero and infinity as dual limits
Zero and infinity are not reachable states, but limits. A fundamental example:
$$x \to 0^+ \Rightarrow \frac{1}{x} \to \infty$$
In the model: at the equator time tends toward zero; at the poles order tends toward infinity.
In both cases, the system approaches the limit without ever reaching it.
2) One single infinity, two directions
Let us consider the function:
$$f(x)=\frac{1}{|x|}$$
Whether \(x \to 0^+\) or \(x \to 0^-\), the result is always:
$$f(x)\to \infty$$
The infinity is the same: what changes is the direction, not the horizon.
3) The horizon as an asymptote (not as a point)
A horizon is an asymptote: the limit is approached without collapsing into it.
$$g(n)=\frac{1}{n}\quad \text{with}\quad n\to\infty \Rightarrow g(n)\to 0$$
For this reason: the equator does not annihilate existence (it makes it indescribable),
and the poles do not annihilate operational conflict (they asymptotically reduce it).
4) Symmetry: compression and expansion
- Equator → infinity by compression (maximum operational conflict, \(t \to 0\))
- Poles → infinity by expansion (minimum operational conflict, increasing order)
It follows that the residual rule at the limit is the same.
5) Residual rule
When a system tends toward infinity, objects, states, and forms do not survive:
only invariant rules remain.
This conclusion is consistent with the mathematics of limits.