In interplanetary topologies, instantaneous network consensus is impossible: information cannot travel faster than light ($c$). Watch how the Causal Epoch Router prevents split-brain paradoxes by quarantining deep-space packets into a Schrödinger Buffer until their causal light-cone ($\chi = 1$) intersects the observer's worldline.
Where Θ is the Heaviside Step Function. If χ = 0, the event lies outside the physical light-cone. Traditional blockchains crash with timestamp drift; the TOM Causal Router isolates the event in transient stasis until χ = 1, preserving monotonic causal order across relativistic planetary frames without an external atomic master clock.