Open questions · hostile tests · falsifiers
Start with the ways
the program can fail.
A framework with a theory-of-everything objective should earn attention by exposing its unresolved foundations, adverse evidence, and non-negotiable failure conditions.
The claim posture today
TV002 is a research architecture pursuing a proposed relationship among interface geometry, temporal structure, and observer-accessible physics. It is not presently a completed theory-of-everything result. The 56 chapter titles are obligations; the later sectors remain blocked until their premise cone is established.
The first two foundational wordings are proposed for freeze. The third—the Temporal Transduction Principle—is a constitutional target whose exact generator is still missing. No Standard Model, gravity, quantum, matter, or cosmological conclusion inherits support from the historical manuscript.
Foundational blockers
Show what distinguishes the exact S² interface scaffold from admitted near-misses. Until then, no-spectator and scaffold-exhaustion claims remain blocked rather than hidden inside a “derivation.”
Establish the declared covariant split and interface metric on the claimed domain. Until then, unqualified global geometric and null-balance conclusions remain blocked.
Specify one target-blind generator with state space, domain, symmetries, current, units, boundaries, causality, stability, well-posedness, branch maps, and hostile controls.
Repository and promotion posture
BOOTSTRAP-B04 is the active standalone repository closeout. FC02-CP1 remains held until the bootstrap is integrated, independently restartable, and cold-start read back. Banking that infrastructure is a repository-state event, not a root freeze, scientific result, or chapter promotion.
PROMOTION-PATH-001 separately blocks the first real CP4 promotion. A protected two-phase path must bind completed exact-candidate CI, independent council review, authenticated owner approval, and the exact promoted commit before any chapter may be called promoted.
Root falsifiers
- Scaffold–Interface: a required consistent bridge needs another spectator factor, or the exact transduction structure cannot exist on S².
- Geometric Null Balance: no covariant split/null lift exists on the declared domain, or the free limit contradicts established causal or mass-shell behavior.
- Temporal Transduction: no exact generator exists; balance fails for an admissible process; branch types depend on coordinates or gauge; or the generator violates causality, unitarity, or stability.
- Core thesis: clock, mass/source, and gravity outputs cannot be derived from one parent current and transduction structure.
- Novelty: the observable theory is only an invertible field redefinition with no new constraint or prediction.
- No fitting: a desired result is found inside a premise, selector, fixture, profile, convention, or expected-answer file.
- Recovery: a declared SR, GR, quantum, QFT, thermodynamic, or empirical limit fails in its stated domain.
How to attack the program efficiently
- Audit premise authority. Ask whether every input is a proposed root, conservative definition, standard theorem with hypotheses, empirical input, model assumption, or earlier TV002 result—and whether the conclusion is no stronger than that cone permits.
- Check proposition fidelity. Compare the prose, exact claim record, code header, domains, units, branches, source hashes, and acceptance condition.
- Mutate load-bearing premises. A hostile control must kill the route for the declared reason; dead-code mutations and prewritten outputs do not count.
- Test physical coherence. Inspect conservation, causality, stability, observability, limiting behavior, parameter counting, and comparison with established physics.
- Look for escape hatches. A failed rigid prediction cannot be rescued by silently changing the target, premise, domain, or interpretation.
What the four engines cannot do
Lean can certify an encoded implication under declared assumptions. Python can reproduce a calculation. Sage and Mathematica can provide separate mathematical routes. None can make a postulate true, supply a missing physical bridge, prove independence merely by using different syntax, or promote a chapter without council and owner authority.
What is not settled
- No root is frozen:
SCAFFOLD-UNIQUENESS-001,GNB-GEOMETRY-001, andTT-GEN-001remain open blockers. BOOTSTRAP-B04still holds FC02-CP1, andPROMOTION-PATH-001blocks the first real CP4 authorization.- No chapter is currently promoted on the protected path.
- Quantum, QFT, Standard Model, gravity, thermodynamic, cosmological, parameter-closure, and novelty gates remain open or blocked.
- The program has not established theory-of-everything closure or community acceptance.
An incomplete bridge remains open. A proved contradiction is a falsifier. The interface should never blur those states.