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"Citation Thread" — bind citations, footnotes, evidence, references into visible relationships. It has a link layer (ropes / cloth between neighbours), a fieldflow layer (solar prominences, aurora, plasma streams, guided matter), a charge layer (attract/repel charged matter), and a memory layer (a decaying trail / hysteresis). Matter follows the field geometry because of fieldflow, not the field-owning force itself. The active render stack is links, field-lines, trails, particles.

Charge binds a citation to its source and fieldflow carries the eye down the thread — electromagnetic relation made readable from either end.

Runtime tokens

link fieldflow charge memory

Metrics

relation-strength confidence memory relation-strength is a host-supplied lane — drive it with data-field-<metric> (or a domain model); without that, its --field-* stays inert.

Diagnostics

topology causality inspector

Conditions

related

Render

links · field-lines · trails · particles

Reduced motion

persistent source highlights with numbered source links and support badges

Without motion

each claim names its source via a numbered link and a support badge, no thread animation needed

<field-root></field-root>
  <div data-body="link" data-strength="1" data-range="360" data-feedback></div>
  <div data-body="fieldflow" data-strength="0.7" data-range="0"></div>
  <div data-body="charge" data-strength="0.6" data-range="300" data-spin="1"></div>
  <div data-body="memory" data-strength="0.5" data-range="260"></div>