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use crateGlass;
use crateDaemonicError;
/// Should not exist. Medium or observer is broken.
/// Propagation ceiling exceeded. Laws violated.
/// If you're holding this, something is deeply wrong
/// and it's not the data — it's the system.
/// Impossible (hard): The state CANNOT be constructed. The type system prevents it.
/// If you're holding an Impossible, a language invariant broke — the compiler failed to prevent something it should have prevented.
/// This is a substrate-level failure. The entity didn't do anything wrong. The floor fell out from under it.
/// The correct response is Broken Sword — document everything and terminate,
/// because the system's guarantees have been violated and nothing can be trusted.
/// Paradox (soft impossible): The state LOOKS impossible from the current reference
/// frame but might be valid from another frame. Incomplete context produces apparent
/// impossibility. Two observations that each survive adversarial testing independently but
/// contradict each other. This isn't a substrate failure — it's an information failure. The
/// correct response is Attend, not Abort. Gather more context. Check other frames. The paradox
/// might resolve with additional observation.
/// Annotation on an Impossible observation.
/// "This shouldn't exist, here's what we think happened."