Prephysics Research Programme
The programme’s open research basis.
Research focus · Lane–Seifert
Four connected stages: reproduction, comparison, mechanism clarification and a planned prediction test on DES-Dovekie.
This page distinguishes research papers from other public research records. All fourteen papers below are publicly available preprints; none is presented here as a peer-reviewed publication. Journal status, where relevant, is kept separate from this public register. A separate preregistration block follows the paper register; the Zenodo Community also contains book, guide and methodology records, so its total record count is higher. For preregistrations, the dated Version DOI of the scientific execution anchor is primary; the Concept DOI additionally opens the complete and current version series, including later clerical clarifications.
Rebases P1 as a goal-relative functional account: four admitted functions form a partial dependency structure and support explicit two-component projection warrants for A1–A6; the former seven-level linear emergence path is no longer used as evidential basis.
Claim-relative roles, nine routes, transition profiles, and the Bridge Burden / Discharge / Debt architecture.
A token-level verdict protocol for physical claims. It freezes a versioned claim, adjudicates token satisfaction, filters applicability-relevant deficits, and records a time-indexed PASS / OPEN / Loss of Applicability verdict.
A verdict protocol for AI-based physical discovery claims.
Applicability diagnostics for interpretations of quantum mechanics.
The initial-conditions regress and the limits of presuppositionless explanation.
A constraint map across cosmological origin strategies.
Self-applicability and the diagnostic limits of final-theory claims.
Introduces the Functional Incompleteness Argument (FIA): complete, auditable claim-level applicability diagnosis requires recoverable requirement, transition-warrant and token-satisfaction information, none recoverable from the other two. P1 → P2 → P3 is one concrete realisation; the separate fourteen-case study calibrates S1–S7.
A regime-sensitive audit of the standard cosmological model.
Tracks the highest claim-resolution licensed by a documented cosmological analysis, distinguishing evidential strength from attributional resolution.
Identifies a low-redshift observer-vertex compatibility obstruction when the standard dressed timescape distance and expansion-rate observables are used together in a general-spacetime diagnostic.
Why fundamental physics requires a licensing discipline.
A modal-audit case study comparing body-level warrant, citable-surface scope, revision history and a frozen ADS–INSPIRE reception corpus.
Publicly deposited protocols that fix analysis decisions before execution. They are listed separately from the fourteen research papers above.
The Strand 1 reference runs used R9 with the runner frozen in TA-03 v0.6. The Bayesian reproduction test ended with a published STOP record ↗. The subsequent maximum-likelihood check reproduced both published best-fit values at zCMB ≥ 0.033; the STOP remains unchanged. Separately preregistered Strand 2 · v0.5.4 ↗ was published as Terminal Record v1.5 ↗ on 27 October 2026. Results, scope and project status →
Research plan R5.6 with amendments A1–A3, deposited on 31 October 2026 by Harald Zierhut and Thomas Schwarz. It separates two mean maps and three covariance treatments, with β in [0,4] and [0,7], on P+1690 and P+580, and adds a false-positive control on ΛCDM-generated data, subject to registered generator checks, and a bias-correction test. Analysis and decision rules are preregistered. No results yet. Project status →
Public planning records are listed separately from completed studies and preregistered execution protocols.
Harald Zierhut and Thomas Schwarz, 1 November 2026. The programme connects reproduction, controlled comparison, mechanism clarification and a planned predictive transfer test on DES-Dovekie. The public record contains the English programme outline and a SHA-256 commitment to the detailed plan. Strand 4 is planned, not yet preregistered. It reports no completed prediction or DES test result.
