Entropy beacon

Entropy

A public beacon. A new pulse lands every ~2 s.

Each pulse hashes the live plasma state into a chain anyone can walk. Nothing on this page lights up unless a check passed in your browser — and the verifier is one shell line you run yourself.

Pulse

Emitted by one node · observed and Ed25519-cosigned by an independent witness

the band behind this text is a pulse-seeded rendering — decoration, not the beacon. the beacon is the numbers below.

What it is

A chain of physics-anchored pulses.

The Ledatic MHD solver advances one step every ~2 s. The resulting plasma state is hashed, concatenated with the previous pulse hash, and posted to a public store. Anyone can walk the chain. One node produces it; an independent Ed25519 witness observes it and cosigns what it saw.

Step 1

Advance

The 128² MHD grid advances one timestep. Real physics, conservation-checked.

Step 2

Hash

SHA-256 of the plasma state. Then SHA-256 of prev_hash || state_hash.

Step 3

Publish

Published as a new pulse to a public store at the edge. Visible to the world on this page.

The source

See what’s being hashed.

An Orszag-Tang vortex on a 128² periodic grid. Ideal-MHD, Lax-Friedrichs, conservation to machine precision (Δm/m < 10-15, ΔE/E < 10-15, ∇·B at 10-15 by construction). The frame below is the same frame that gets SHA-256’d into the chain. Plasma is chaotic — small perturbations blow up fast — which is exactly the property an honest entropy beacon needs.

Orszag-Tang
Grid 128×128 Var ρ Plane 64 KB Step

The viewport reads only the density plane of each published frame — the first 64 KB after the header, min-max normalized and color-mapped on your GPU. Every kept frame is a real keyframe from /entropy/frame/current; the dissolve between keyframes is presentation. If frames stop arriving, the panel says so: stale within seconds, and after ten quiet minutes it demotes itself to replay — recorded pixels, labeled as recorded.

Each frame also ships a signed record: — press it and the proof runs here, in your tab.

Feed

Watch the chain walk.

Pulses land newest-first. Each arriving row is checked against the one before it — the link glyph fills only when prev_value_hex matches in your browser, and a break prints red. Click any row to re-fetch its published record and compare. The full log of the last 50 lives at /entropy/pulse/log.

JavaScript is off — the chain still walks without it: fetch /entropy/pulse/log and compare each prev_value_hex yourself, or use the one-liner under Verify below.
Witness

Independently observed.

A second machine on separate hardware polls the same public chain, checks each link it sees, and signs a receipt — pulse id, value, and the moment it watched — with its own Ed25519 key. The latest receipt is republished below, and its signature is re-checked in your browser against a key pinned in this site’s source.

Observed pulse
Watched at
Gap
Chain link
Signature
Pinned key

raw receipt: /witness/fleet0/latest — the signed message is pulse_id|value_hex|witnessed_at

Verify

Walk the chain yourself.

You don’t have to take this page’s word for any of it. Each pulse carries the previous pulse’s hash in prev_value_hex; the chain check is pure arithmetic on public JSON. Pin the witness key once, and every receipt after that is checkable too.

Shell

Verify the chain in one line

curl -s https://ledatic.org/entropy/pulse/log | jq -e '. as $l | all(range(1; length); $l[.].prev_value_hex == $l[.-1].value_hex)' && echo "chain OK" || echo "chain BROKEN"

Fetches the last 50 pulses and confirms each one’s prev_value_hex matches the previous pulse’s value_hex. If anyone rewrote history mid-chain, the link breaks and you’ll see chain BROKEN.