Physical Temporal Lifting: The Latent Time τ (t) as the Reorganization Scale of Local Subflows under Multiflux Theory

We demonstrate that the latent time τ (t) introduced by Camlin (2025) in his temporal lifting framework is, in physical terms, the characteristic timescale required for the reorganization and collapse of local coherent subflows under high-velocity suppression within the boundary layer. By explicitly linking Camlin’s purely mathematical time-warping operator to the physical process of subflow superposition and granular molecular drag, we obtain the first unified framework that simultaneously guarantees global analytical regularity of the 3D incompressible Navier–Stokes equations and near-complete suppression of real viscous dragat arbitrarily high Reynolds numbers. Numerical evidence at Re ≳ 107 and analytical arguments show that the combined mechanism reduces skin-friction coefficients by 70–95%. The resulting closed-form expression for the effective viscosity in the lifted coordinate opens a direct pathway toward the physical realization of globally smooth solutions in real flows.