
A new radio-polarimetric report of the Milky Way halo (Landecker, Hill, et al., 2026) describesa surprisingly intricate yet coherent magneto-ionic topology with high Faraday complexity, whereconventional expectations favored either turbulence-dominated disorder or large-scale simplicity.We interpret this result through the MetaTime v36.0 framework [1], which splits the effectivedark sector into passive Latency (ρL, effectively cold) and active Inference/Execution (ρI , negativepressure) coupled by an exchange term. In this lens, the organized halo is a Latency Mantle: alow-dissipation, state-bearing substrate (“Fossil Mass”) that stores long-horizon dynamical historyand provides a routing geometry for galactic-scale coherence. Faraday complexity is then not anuisance but an observable of information density: the measurable imprint of structured state inthe vacuum/plasma backplane. We outline falsifiable tests relating Faraday-depth topology statisticsto the dynamical mass-discrepancy field, providing a non-particulate alternative interpretation of“dark matter” phenomenology.
Dark Matter Alternatives, Galactic Halo, Faraday Rotation, Magnetic Topology, Information Theory, Entropic Gravity, MetaTime, PCAM, Latency Mantle, Fossil Mass, Computational Cosmology, Vacuum Viscosity.
Dark Matter Alternatives, Galactic Halo, Faraday Rotation, Magnetic Topology, Information Theory, Entropic Gravity, MetaTime, PCAM, Latency Mantle, Fossil Mass, Computational Cosmology, Vacuum Viscosity.
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