# later (temporal)

after now

- Computed level: L5 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: time  ·  Arena: temporal

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [future](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-future.temporal)

**Through:** the point in time after the present moment creates a later moment

**Novel properties:**
- temporal offset beyond present
- relative ordering after reference

## Examples
- The Voyager 1 probe will exit the heliosphere in 2025, 48 years after its 1977 launch. *(spaceflight)*
- The 2020 Australian bushfires released carbon that permafrost thawed in 2030 will later emit as methane. *(climate)*
- The Y2K remediation effort in 1999 fixed code so systems wouldn’t fail at 00:00 on January 1, 2000. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [chaos](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-chaos.unpredictable-drift) (L12)
- [investment](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-investment.financial) (L17)
- [memory](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-memory.cognitive) (L20)
- [scaffold](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-scaffold.temporary) (L15)
- [soon](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-soon.temporal) (L6)
- [storage](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-storage.physical) (L7)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-later.temporal*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-later.temporal.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*