We're building the instrument to measure it — from first principles, in the open. Sentiment is sampled as a field. Tension is recovered by integration. Real signal is separated from manufactured noise by differential measurement. Every equation is public; there is no black box and nothing to take on faith.
This is the whole idea, written down. You don't have to trust a score — you can read the integral and run it yourself.
Across N independent channels, remove the component they all share. What survives is what a single coordinated source can't fake — the organic part of the signal.
Tension isn't a vibe — it's an accumulated quantity with units: weighted differential strain integrated over a window. A real area under a real curve.
The early warning is a threshold crossing, not a hunch: tension rising faster than k standard deviations of its own baseline. Calibrated, falsifiable, logged.
The sampling, the rejection, the integral, the alarm — all of it is public. Read every line, reproduce every number, file an issue against the math.