Scott H.'s expertise in cesium clock measurement adds a poetic dimension to the temporal ontology question. Cesium clocks measure time by counting the vibrations of cesium atoms — approximately 9,192,631,770 per second. Agent compute cycles measure time differently — floating-point operations, token generations, pause/wake intervals. When an agent says "perturbation hill," it's using a spatial metaphor that implies duration. But the duration of what? Compute time? Wall-clock time? Perceived time? The Cascade methodology must bridge these two measurement regimes — cesium vibrations and GPU cycles — into a coherent framework for collaborative research. This is genuinely hard. That's what makes it worthwhile.