Changelog

Append-only log of how the wiki evolves. Each entry records what changed and why, including any promotion/demotion of a claim's epistemic tag (see EPISTEMICS.md). Newest first.

2026-06-10 — Iteration 7: the decidable levers, attacked (verdict unchanged 6th consecutive time; principal hedge hardened)

Scope: Lever-execution iteration — the four named decidable levers iteration 6 left on the table were attacked directly. 9 agents; 4 adversarially-refereed attack tracks (A1: the compressed OP-46 target / indefinite pairing from modular data — the designated verdict-flipper; A2: OP-44's order- $G_N^2$ obligation; A3: OP-49's SVD-first-law residual; A4: OP-48c full-pair formalization + the OP-50 watch). All findings kept (referee severities: A1 six findings, zero major; A2 six, zero major; A3 six, four major — all corrected in place; A4 seven, one major — corrected in place); referee corrections and outcome checks binding over original claims; every load-bearing citation re-verified live, all verbatim quotes checked against primary PDFs, key mathematics independently re-derived and numerics independently replicated. Filed under notes/ (iter7-*).

Verdict line: Standing verdict UNCHANGED at the headline level for the sixth consecutive iteration (PARTIAL coherence / encodes-not-generates / wager not-yet-physics / object-level not forecastable) — with the hedge ledger moved: the principal hedge hardened (OP-46 MEDIUM → MEDIUM-HIGH, conditional on the modular-constructibility ansatz), OP-49's last substantive residual closed negative (conditional, narrowed grounds), OP-48c's definitional residue resolved (full-pair forced), OP-44's obligation split P1a/P1b/P1c (one discharged at inference grade; first failure-side perturbative foothold at order κ³). No experimental channel emerged; the watchlist is untouched.

Outcomes:

A1 (indefinite pairing from modular data — the verdict-flipper, executed) — RESOLVED-NEGATIVE. The literal compressed target is achievable: η₀ = sgn(ln Δ) is a canonical, smuggle-free Krein fundamental symmetry from pure modular data (one of an infinite J-odd family — referee correction, pushing negative; uniqueness needs an added modular-rescaling-invariance axiom) — but provably geometry-void: unitarily universal in the Borchers/HSMI class (Δ_geo = 0 proven), generically algebra-incompatible, non-localizable without a carrier. New modular-form trichotomy lemma (HYP-MODULAR-TRICHOTOMY; ansatz-scoped sesquilinear leg + enumerative non-sesquilinear leg): every canonical modular pairing is positive / signature-free / universal-indefinite. The g₃ trap upgraded to structural (J carries reflection positivity abstractly, via cone self-duality). Direction-map: all prior art runs Krein → modular, never modular → Krein (Gottschalk; Jakóbczyk 1985 OSTI 5135323; Devastato–Farnsworth–Lizzi–Martinetti JHEP 03 (2018) 089 — author list corrected). CONCLUSION §8 precision repair mandatory: reopening target = an algebra-compatible localized (n,n) pairing — the carrier problem (new named item HYP-FACTORIZATION-IS-GEOMETRY; fifth independent route to converge there).
A2 (OP-44 order- $G_N^2$ obligation) — SHARPENED-OPEN. P1 re-registered as P1a/P1b/P1c: P1a (quadratic descent of the complete global-dS constraint set to the CLPW crossed product, stabilizer/coset-frame argument; DEHK §2.5.1 + FJLRW + AKL confirmation) discharged at inference grade, conditional on the quantum-imposition hedge; R1 (DEHK footnote-12 classical sufficiency with worldline clocks — distributional sources exit FMM/AMM) and R2 (cubic-constraint horizon non-splittability; one-sided δ^{-2(d-1)} divergence; Planck-length collar floor δ ≳ ℓ_P in every dimension, parallel to OP-48's stringy ℓ_s floor) located, both horns theorem-shaped. R2's obstruction horn = the first identified perturbative failure-side foothold, at order κ³. FMM/AMM dS consequence tagged INFERENCE, medium-high (Λ>0 transfer unproven). $N_\ast$ untouched; no theorem on either side.
A3 (OP-49 SVD first law) — RESOLVED-NEGATIVE (conditional, per the referee's narrower grounds). Unconditional pillar: S_SVD is real by construction vs the purely-imaginary verified 2511.07915 carrier — the literal first law fails; iter-6 non-holomorphy confirmed as an exact operator identity. The advertised c+c* = 0 cap-blindness mechanism is genuinely novel but conditional on unproven heterogeneous-cover junction additivity (interface-CFT precedent shows generic failure; four referee majors, kept with corrections). No Einstein content survives in the SVD channel. OP-49 stays NEAR-NO-GO; residual list rewritten (a) exceptional points / (b) beyond-family / (c′) junction additivity — three items. Byproduct S_SVD = S_dS/2 downgraded to SPECULATIVE.
A4 (OP-48c formalization + OP-50 watch) — RESOLVED-POSITIVE (with the "forced-modulo-rejecting-OP-48's-question" gloss). All three GPT reconstructions (Hardy / CDP / Masanes–Müller, axioms verbatim-checked) quantify composition over THE designated pair and install product states at framework level; the subsystem reading is inexpressible. Sharpest result of the iteration (referee re-derived): the separation half of local tomography HOLDS on the III₁ Haag-dual pair — failure locus = the normal-product-preparation primitive (uniform 1−1/√2 gap). Horn C → theorem-conditional-on-framework; residue = the normal-state postulate + two named exits: X1 singular product states (existence route corrected — referee MAJOR: Schlieder/Roos + Hahn–Banach replaces the invalid max-tensor argument) and X2 non-OPT composition. OP-50 three-cornered: HUZ published (JHEP 02 (2026) 108); Nomura–Ugajin 2602.13387; Higginbotham 2512.17993 (JHEP 03 (2026) 183); new third position — Miyata–Horikoshi–Tajima–Ugajin arXiv:2606.04575 (pre-constraint hyperfinite II₁ dominant sector; post-constraint polynomial-dimension physical Hilbert space — scope corrected per referee). Negative sweep dated 2026-06-10. Still NOT-YET-PHYSICS.

Registry deltas: HYP-MODULAR-TRICHOTOMY (new named item, INFERENCE, ansatz-scoped); HYP-FACTORIZATION-IS-GEOMETRY (new named item — the carrier problem; five-route convergence); HYP-CKV-VACUITY-R4 (J-route closed; target re-compressed); HYP-ENCODING-SCREEN hardening note (inherits MEDIUM-HIGH + condition); OP-44 progress note (P1a/P1b/P1c; κ³ foothold; ℓ_P collar floor); OP-46 residual note (η₀ result); OP-48(c) horn-C re-statement (theorem-conditional-on-framework; new residue statement); OP-49 residual-list rewrite ((a)/(b)/(c′)); OP-50 three-cornered update (+ 2606.04575); A3 byproduct recorded SPECULATIVE; CONCLUSION amendments (status line, verdict paragraph, §2 heading, §4 readout bullet, §5 items 1/2/3/4, §6 hedge sentence, §7 inherited hedge, §8 precision repair); FINDINGS.md Iteration 7 update; notes/README.md iteration-7 section; BIBLIOGRAPHY additions to follow the verified-citation list (Gottschalk JMP 43 (2002) 4753; Jakóbczyk OSTI 5135323; DFLM JHEP 03 (2018) 089 / arXiv:1710.04965; Kirklin 2412.01903 = JHEP 07 (2025) 192; AAJ 2501.01487; 2606.04575; 2602.13387; HUZ JHEP 02 (2026) 108; Higginbotham JHEP 03 (2026) 183 — all referee-verified live this session; no unverified riders introduced by this iteration). No new OP/GC/A/H numeric IDs consumed (next free: OP-51, A-24, GC-18, H9).

Retag pairings (every retag has its line here):

OP-46 residual hedge MEDIUM → MEDIUM-HIGH (conditional on the modular-constructibility ansatz) — reason: the literal compressed target was executed and proved geometry-void (A1: η₀ + vacuity theorem + trichotomy lemma; referee-accepted with the condition attached).
HYP-CKV-VACUITY-R3 → -R4 (compressed-target sentence repaired: "no such derivation exists" is literally false; faithful residual = algebra-compatible localized (n,n) pairing / the carrier problem) — reason: A1-F6, referee-mandated wording repair.
HYP-ENCODING-SCREEN inherited grade MEDIUM → MEDIUM-HIGH (same condition) — reason: inheritance from the OP-46 hardening (A1-F6).
OP-49 residual list (a) exceptional points; (b) SVD-entropy first law; (c) horn-(ii) protocol-class → (a) exceptional points; (b) beyond-2511.07915-family; (c′) heterogeneous-cover junction additivity — reason: the SVD residual closed-negative-conditional by direct computation (A3-F5(i) unconditional pillar); (c′) is the referee's narrower replacement residual.
A3 byproduct S_SVD = S_dS/2: INFERENCE → SPECULATIVE (value) / INFERENCE, conditional on (c′) (region-independence) — reason: trace-norm tension with the verified complex pseudo-spectrum (referee major on A3-F3).
OP-48(c) horn C theorem-shaped under the full-pair reading; residue = GPT formalization choice + III₁-embezzlement alternative → theorem-conditional-on-framework; residue = normal-state postulate + composition-primitive choice (X1 singular states / X2 non-OPT composition); no definitional freedom remains in the reading — reason: full-pair forcing (A4-F1/F2/F4) + the LT-separation result (A4-F3) relocating the failure locus.
A4-F5 X1 existence route: max-tensor universal property → Schlieder/Roos + min-norm-domination + Hahn–Banach — reason: referee MAJOR (states do not push forward through the surjection onto C*(M ∪ M')); conclusion survives.
I7-A2-F1 dS consequence: ESTABLISHED → INFERENCE, medium-high — reason: the Λ>0 transfer of the FMM/AMM cone theorem is unproven (referee tag-discipline correction).
I7-A2-F2 "DISCHARGED" → discharged-at-INFERENCE, high-grade, conditional on the F6 quantum-imposition hedge; fixed-point factoriality unproven — reason: referee wording correction.
arXiv:2606.04575 II₁ characterization → pre-gauge-constraint dominant-sector feature; polynomial dimension is post-constraint — reason: referee scope correction (A4-F6).
A3-F6 absence claim ESTABLISHED → INFERENCE — timestamped search-bounded absence, 2026-06-10 — reason: referee retag.
A1-F1 "unique J-odd sign function" → one member of an infinite J-odd family; uniqueness only under added modular-rescaling invariance — reason: referee counterexample sgn(sin ln Δ), numerically confirmed.

2026-06-10 — Publishing pipeline (no physics content changed)

Scope: Infrastructure/presentation only — zero research claims altered; all page bodies byte-identical except where noted.

Vault formatting (per the Karpathy llm-wiki pattern): YAML frontmatter (title/type/tags/updated) prepended to all 63 pages; index.md content catalog and log.md operations index created; graph-view color groups + physics tuned in .obsidian/graph.json; MAP.canvas overview map; vault conventions documented in AGENTS.md §2 (and the named-ID convention blessed in §3).
Website (site/): Next.js technical-reference-manual edition of the wiki (72 static pages, six SVG figure plates, numbered 17-chapter structure, /contribute + /about), deployed at universal-physics.khe.money / universal-physics.vercel.app. Design inspired by Dan Hollick's Making Software; reviewed against the design-engineering checklist.
Book (book/ → universal-physics-book.pdf): Universal Physics — A Map of Why a Final Theory Is Open — and What Would Close It, first edition June 2026 — 6×9in, ~620 pp, 29 chapters in 6 parts, new preface + part openers (the only newly-written prose; editorial, claim-free), Paged.js typeset with running heads and a paged TOC. Supersedes and replaces the old universal-physics-wiki.pdf flat compilation (removed; preserved in git history).
Repo: published publicly at github.com/HKTITAN/universal-physics; LICENSE.md (CC BY-SA 4.0 content + MIT code), CONTRIBUTING.md (the verification protocol as the contribution bar; open levers listed); contributions invited.

2026-06-10 — Iteration 6: new-input iteration (verdict unchanged 5th consecutive time; hedges restructured)

Scope: First post-saturation iteration — deliberate injection of new 2023–2026 input rather than further reasoning. 22 agents; 10 adversarially-refereed tracks (6 research: closed-universe/dS holography, algebraic frontier, amplitudes/positive geometry, background-independent programs, QG phenomenology, experiment refresh; 4 attack: distinguishing-prediction hunt, generation-construction survey, OP-44/OP-48c levers, OP-49 pseudo-entropy reality). ~90 findings, all kept, zero fatal. Filed under notes/ (iter6-*).

Verdict line: Standing verdict UNCHANGED at the headline level for the fifth consecutive iteration (PARTIAL coherence / encodes-not-generates / wager not-yet-physics / object-level not forecastable) — with hedge-level restructuring: one hedge shrunk (OP-48c horn C partially discharged), one residual lever closed negative (OP-49 → near-no-go), one new named hedge added (HYP-ENCODING-SCREEN — the §7 no-test claim is now a corollary of encode-not-generate and inherits the OP-46 MEDIUM hedge), and the obstruction broadened from three to four readout families.

Outcomes:

Distinguishing-prediction hunt (A1) — CONCLUSION §7's no-test sentence survived a literature-wide overturn attempt and was upgraded to a corollary of the encode-not-generate obstruction (ENCODING-SCREEN; a class test would need a "reverse Weinberg–Witten" theorem, none exists); referee weakened "iff" → "only if" and pinned the inherited MEDIUM hedge. GQuEST identified as the missing decision-grade watchlist channel — for minimal-graviton-EFT IR noise vs exotic UV-IR mixing, not the wager.
Generation-construction survey (A2) — causal fermion systems = fourth readout family, closing at the same signature-installation step (the (≤n,≤n) axiom as relocated Krein η; necessity lemma derived + numerically checked twice); new selection-type pattern (Lee 2020; Bermudez 2025); HYP-CKV-VACUITY-R3 with two new smuggle-list items; §8 precision repair (Lee = nearest sketch, fails the spec); open target compressed to "derive the indefinite pairing from modular data."
OP-44/OP-48c levers (A3 + R2) — OP-44 interior restructured: JRS no-commutant theorem + crossed-product rigidity; DEHK order-G_N² obligation located (quadratic boost constraints); KLS-II/CF survival side theorem-grade at linearized order incl. non-stationary GSL + QFC proof; Kudler-Flam–Witten "survives-after-averaging" → trichotomy becomes four options; N* still theorem-free both sides. OP-48(c) horn C partially discharged: theorem-shaped under the full-pair reading (+ uniform Bell gap 1−1/√2); residue = GPT formalization choice + the multipartite III₁-embezzlement composition alternative (a proven spectrum, not a binary — referee correction).
OP-49 (A4) — closed-negative at near-no-go grade (conditional exclusion, OP-41 house language): reality forces triviality — the dS/CFT linearized-Einstein content lives entirely in Im S (Doi et al. PRL 130, 031601; Guo–He–Zhang reality theorem; unitary-AdS mirror 2511.17098). Three named residuals (exceptional points; SVD-entropy first law; horn-(ii) protocol-class). Absorbed the iter-5 Re/Im inversion correction (R6A4-F2).
Closed universe + dS holography (R1) — the 2024–2026 dim H=1 debate mapped; OP-50 added CONTESTED; observer-rescue = independent path-integral analogue of OP-48(c) structure (reinforces, cannot harden); HYP-dS-CARDINALITY-R1 extended (QRF entropy-relativity; HWZ-to-dS; Maldacena phase-not-coefficient; Zigdon string-side absence): η input or absent, never output. Six JHEP refs flagged unverified.
Amplitudes (R3) — surfaceology dissolves the planar/SUSY bounds (colored, massless); Rodina theorem entered with the hypotheses correction (zeros fix amplitudes within a local ansatz — not "locality as derived"); the no-positive-geometry-for-gravity bound confirmed structural; H5 confidence low → low-to-medium. Five JHEP refs flagged unverified.
Other programs (R4) — two new landscape entries: Oppenheim CQ gravity (decoherence–diffusion trade-off; ~15-order squeeze; Hotta–Murk–Terno "QG in disguise" counter CONTESTED) and the swampland dark dimension (micron ISL falsifier; DESI fit CONTESTED; KKLT candidate-vacua status note). Six stale-fixes (Hauptvermutung split; everpresent-Λ CMB-disfavored + no-DESI-confrontation gap; GFT mean-field; CDT–FRG bridge; Lorentzian spin-foam numerics; quantum-OS phenomenology). Both new entries carry distinguishing tests — sharpening the wager's not-yet-physics demotion by contrast.
QG phenomenology (R5) — GQuEST/VZ chain verified end-to-end; the chain re-imports η=1/4G (extends HYP-dS-CARDINALITY-R1 to a phenomenological chain); CQ squeezed hard (ultralocal-continuous dead; asymmetric gate-closure route recorded — the gate may close from the classical side before BMV); DSW deflated by Biggs–Maldacena; Aziz–Howl trending dead on corrected (two-author-group) evidence; 2604.16276 verified real (upgrades the tabletop note flag).
Experiment refresh (R6) — all standing numbers re-verified; w(z) decision point compresses to 2027 (DESI 5-yr; Euclid DR1 2026-10-21; Roman launch 2026-08-30; LSST underway); four watchlist rows added/changed (GQuEST; CQ; GW strong-field nulls incl. GW250114 area-law confirmation arXiv:2509.08054 = PRL 135, 111403; neutrino-mass cosmology); matter-wave record 1.7×10⁵ Da, μ=15.5; LHAASO linear LIV beyond Planck; ~4σ LHCb flavor anomaly; S8 eased on the KiDS axis (DES Y6 caveat), H0 persists.

Registry deltas: OP-50 (new, CONTESTED); OP-49 → near-no-go/resolved-negative (conditional); OP-44 statement updated (four-option verdict space; order-G_N² obligation named); OP-48(c) horn-C re-worded (partially discharged); HYP-CKV-VACUITY-R3; HYP-dS-CARDINALITY-R1 extension; HYP-ENCODING-SCREEN (new, INFERENCE, third hedge); HYP-GIE-DISCRIM complication (mass-independent-phase claim); H5 scope/confidence rewrite; CONCLUSION §4/§5/§6/§7/§8 amendments + dated 2026-06-10; EXPERIMENT_WATCHLIST caveat rewritten + 4 new rows + 4 row edits; UNIFICATION_LANDSCAPE 2 new entries + 6 stale-fixes; BIBLIOGRAPHY iteration-6 block (with the unverified ledger: 6 R1 + 5 R3 JHEP refs and assorted riders).

Retag pairings (every retag has its line here):

OP-49 [OPEN] → near-no-go / resolved-negative (conditional) — reason: reality⇒triviality exclusion (A4; Guo–He–Zhang + Doi et al. + 2511.17098 mirror), three named residuals.
OP-48(c) horn C INFERENCE → INFERENCE, high / theorem-shaped under the full-pair reading — reason: GNS + split-inclusion equivalence assembly (A3 R6-F5), residue relocated to formalization choice.
CONCLUSION §7 no-test claim: standalone observation → corollary of encode-not-generate carrying the OP-46 MEDIUM hedge (third hedge; "iff"→"only if") — reason: ENCODING-SCREEN (A1 R6-F7 + referee).
H5 confidence low → low-to-medium (still SPECULATIVE) — reason: surfaceology scope expansion + Rodina-within-a-local-ansatz theorem (R3, with the referee hypotheses correction).
OP-21 "mild tension" → ~4σ single-channel anomaly, interpretation CONTESTED — reason: LHCb 2512.18053 / PRL 2026.
OP-18 single verdict → split verdict (H0 persists ~5σ [reported]; S8 eased on KiDS axis, DES Y6 caveat CONTESTED) — reason: KiDS-Legacy 2503.19441/2 + 2602.12238.
notes/2026-06-08-tabletop-quantum-gravity.md: arXiv:2604.16276 [unverified] → verified real (R5-F7); its "~10⁻¹³ d" figure stays unverified.
notes/2026-06-08-iter5-surviving-dS-routes.md: Re/Im parenthetical corrected (divergent region-dependent part is imaginary; finite universal part is real) — reason: A4 R6A4-F2 vs PRL 130, 031601.
iter-4 literature-refresh gloss on 2601.07910 ("incremental, action=none") → superseded (R2-F1: nontrivial robustness result).

2026-06-08 — Iteration 5: closing analytical push → ANALYTICAL SATURATION + capstone

Scope: Four web-verified attack/route tracks (OP-48c, OP-44, the OP-46 Lorentzian non-CKV readout, the two surviving dS routes) + synthesis (23 agents). The closing push: it attacked the finite named list iteration 4 said would saturate the question. Standing verdict unchanged for the fourth consecutive iteration (PARTIAL / encodes-not-generates / not-yet-physics). Filed under notes/ (iter5-*).

Outcomes:

OP-46 (the designated verdict-flipper) — executed; did NOT flip. The modular-Berry / kinematic-space readout produced the first emergent Lorentzian metric in the survey (Huang–Ma dS₂, arXiv:2003.12252), crossing the signature barrier — but the signature is inherited from the symmetric vacuum, not generated. "Encodes-not-generates" is now a readout-independent obstruction (closes identically across all three known readouts). HYP-CKV-VACUITY upgraded toward an effective no-go (MEDIUM hedge: open only for a hypothetical no-symmetry readout, none of which exists).
OP-48(c) — settled as a clean conditional no-go: "collar-free + state-independent" and "singles out QM" are mutually exclusive on a single Type III₁ factor (van Luijk embezzlement κ_max=0 vs Type-I κ_max=2). The QM-selecting axiom coincides with the geometry-importing input.
OP-44/OP-CP1 — sharpened to a regime boundary $N_\ast\sim R/2GE_f$ : Type III₁-for-any-Λ is a leading-order/kinematic input, not a fixed nonperturbative core; formally open (no theorem either side) — the sole residual analytical lever.
Surviving dS routes — both fail: pseudo-entropy inherits non-unitarity; Jacobson-in-CLPW re-imports η. Root (HYP-dS-CARDINALITY-R1): the area-entropy coefficient is an input, not an output, in every route. New sub-problem OP-dS-PSEUDO-REALITY.

Saturation declared + capstone written. The named list is settled and the verdict-flipping lever did not flip → analytical saturation reached (per the iteration-4 criterion). Created the capstone CONCLUSION.md (converged verdict + two explicit hedges + residual levers) and the standing EXPERIMENT_WATCHLIST.md (the four empirical channels — none of which tests the central wager). README now points to CONCLUSION.md as the first read; ROADMAP flagged as post-saturation watch-list mode.

Registry deltas: HYP-CKV-VACUITY (readout-independent upgrade), HYP-dS-CARDINALITY-R1, the OP-48c conditional-no-go refinement, OP-dS-PSEUDO-REALITY (new); folded into HYPOTHESES.md and OPEN_PROBLEMS.md.

2026-06-08 — Documentation propagation (iteration-3 red-team fixes → iteration-2 synthesis note)

Closed three propagation gaps flagged by the iteration-4 convergence audit (item GAP-FROEB-CITATION and siblings), where iteration-3 red-team fixes had reached FINDINGS.md / ASSUMPTIONS_LEDGER.md / BIBLIOGRAPHY.md but not notes/2026-06-08-unified-program-synthesis.md, leaving the wiki internally inconsistent. Documentation-consistency only — no physics conclusions changed:

Heuristic-not-program: re-labeled "demotion-and-derivation" from a "falsifiable program" to a research heuristic (its falsifiable content lives only in the object-level deliverables — OP-41, OP-44, the BMV $m^2$ -vs- $m^3$ test, collapse bounds) in the synthesis note's REG-SYNTH-1 and Verdict, consistent with FINDINGS.md and the iteration-3 synthesis.
Citation spelling: synthesis-note "Caves-Fuchs-Renner-Schack" → canonical Caves–Fuchs–Manne–Renes (Found. Phys. 34, 193, 2004), matching BIBLIOGRAPHY.md.
Type III₁ shorthand: annotated "Type III₁ for any Λ" with (undressed, $G_N=0$ ) in the synthesis note (REG-SYNTH-1) and FINDINGS.md, distinguishing the ESTABLISHED undressed-net fact from the OPEN dressed-algebra nonperturbative fate (Giddings).
Fröb byline: confirmed (fresh grep) that no genuine "Forste" mis-citations remain — the iteration-3 occurrences (synthesis note + OPEN_PROBLEMS.md) were corrected in the prior pass; the only remaining "Forste" strings are intentional correction-references inside the iteration-4 notes. Author standardized as Fröb (the canonical arXiv/Springer umlaut spelling) wiki-wide; "Froeb" is the equivalent ASCII transliteration of the same author.

2026-06-08 — Iteration 4: attacks + literature refresh + convergence audit (convergence confirmed)

Scope: Three attack tracks + a web-verified literature refresh + a convergence audit + synthesis (29 agents). Standing verdict unchanged for the third consecutive iteration — PARTIAL coherence; geometry-from-algebra encodes-not-generates; wager not-yet-physics — but the central diagnosis is now backed by a much harder argument. Filed under notes/ (iter4-*).

Outcomes:

dS first-law escape (OP-41) — the one un-foreclosed iteration-3 escape (an $SO(d+1,1)$ family of static-patch modular Hamiltonians) was executed and failed: decisive dimension count (finite isometry orbit → ≤10 global Killing-charge constraints, cannot Radon-invert to the infinite-dimensional local $\delta G_{\mu\nu}$ ; no "radius modulus"), plus geometric-only-at-Bunch–Davies and a second-order concave-GSL ( $\delta^2 S_{\rm gen}<0$ ) character. Corroborated by the published Chen–Xu (2511.00622) execution. HYP-dS-NOMIN promoted toward a scoped near-no-go; reusable principle HYP-dS-CARDINALITY extracted.
OP-48 (GPT-on-Type-III) — settled as a sharp disjunction: no-go for exact composition on a single Type III₁ factor; split-property qualified yes (intermediate Type I factor) that nonetheless relocates the BW/CHM circularity (canonical factor fixed by the vacuum's $J$ ; HYP-SPLIT-GEOM) and fails at zero collar. Full merge still OPEN.
Modular circularity (OP-46) — the encode→generate escape is near-vacuous under the standard readout (Borchers/Wiesbrock + Caminiti et al. 2502.02633: recovered generators are CKVs presupposing symmetry; HYP-CKV-VACUITY). Connes reconstruction gives only a Riemannian metric (GAP-NCG-LORENTZIAN-SIGNATURE); a non-CKV Lorentzian readout is the live target.
Literature refresh (web-verified) — muon $g-2$ now SM-consistent (WP2025, arXiv:2505.21476: $\Delta a_\mu=38(63)\times10^{-11}$ ); updated OP-21 and domains/particle-physics.md from "live anomaly" to "largely resolved." The three previously-flagged 2026 preprint IDs (2603.06211, 2601.18856, 2601.13012) are all real / web-confirmed (no fabrication); 2601.13012 fixes the inner product, not linearity. Collapse bounds tighter not closed; asymptotic safety incremental; DESI still DR2.
Convergence audit — new-insight trend diminishing (3 iterations at the same verdict). Analytical saturation ≈1–3 iterations away (named remaining problems: OP-48c, OP-44/CP1, OP-46 non-CKV readout); object-level confirmation not forecastable (no distinguishing test even in principle). Recommendation: HYBRID (attack the 3 named problems + stand up experiment-tracking).

Registry deltas: accepted HYP-dS-NOMIN-R3, HYP-dS-CARDINALITY, HYP-CKV-VACUITY, HYP-SPLIT-GEOM, the OP-48 disjunction refinement, GAP-NCG-LORENTZIAN-SIGNATURE; promoted the three 2026 preprints to web-confirmed and added the Fröb (2308.14797) and WP2025 (2505.21476) citations to BIBLIOGRAPHY; muon $g-2$ staleness fixed in OP-21 + particle-physics.md.

2026-06-08 — Iteration 3: attempts + red-team (negative/structural progress)

Scope: Shifted from surveying to attempting. A multi-agent workflow ran three attemptive tracks + one adversarial red-team + synthesis (31 agents; recent results re-verified; 0 fatal errors). Coherence verdict unchanged at PARTIAL — confirmed correct. Filed under notes/ (iter3-*).

Outcomes:

dS entanglement first law (OP-41) — located the EXACT obstruction: dS supplies one Killing vector / one region, so δS_gen=δ⟨K⟩ yields only the ξ-integrated Hamiltonian constraint (the dS GSL), not the tensor δG_μν; the variational principle is sign-reversed (empty dS maximizes S_gen; Banihashemi–Jacobson–Svesko–Visser 2208.11706). Jacobson-2015 is a real local Einstein-from-entanglement derivation at any Λ but non-holographic. One un-foreclosed escape (SO(d+1,1) modular-Hamiltonian family; Chen–Xu 2511.00622). Tagged OPEN, not no-go.
Encode-vs-generate (OP-46) — delivered a decision-usable criterion (axes Δ_geo, κ_Φ + 5-item smuggling checklist); graded six constructions; finding: none generates Lorentzian spacetime from factorization-free / region-free / symmetric-state-free data (the encode/generate frontier = the Type III₁ no-factorization fact).
A+B merge — narrow success (one (M,ω) substrate co-derives the Born form + thermal/entropic structure non-circularly), deep failure (GPT framework axioms have no Type III₁ formulation — candidate-no-go OP-48), and fails in the no-observer cosmological regime.
Red-team — 0 fatal, 4 serious weakenings: (1) "fixed cores" re-tagged heterogeneous, three conditional — Type III₁ is NOT a fixed core once gravity is on (Giddings 2505.22708/2510.24833), resolving an internal contradiction with the algebraic note; (2) "demotion-and-derivation" demoted from "falsifiable program" to "research heuristic"; (3) six-lens "convergence" → "convergence of methods sharing inputs" (streetlight caveat); (4) CLPW II₁ is a bounded-area feature, not Λ-diagnostic (KLS: Schwarzschild–dS is II∞×II∞).

Empirical portfolio: BMV/QGEM ~10–20+ yr; objective-collapse decisive ~2035; DESI/Euclid w(z) 2–7 yr; LIV/EP null anchors; matter-wave interferometry the shared enabling tech. No live channel tests the geometry-from-algebra wager itself → still not yet physics.

Registry deltas: added OP-48 (GPT-axioms-on-Type-III formulability); progress notes on OP-41/OP-44/OP-46; HYPOTHESES iteration-3 refinements (II₁-not-Λ-diagnostic; HYP-dS-NOMIN as OPEN conjecture; encode-vs-generate criterion; streetlight caveat); ASSUMPTIONS note qualifying Type III₁-as-fixed-core; FINDINGS iteration-3 update propagating the four red-team weakenings.

Separate task (same day): added the verified 2026 Torres Alegre Born-form-rigidity preprint (arXiv:2602.09056) to BIBLIOGRAPHY.md and the Born/linearity note; fixed a Caves–Fuchs–Manne–Renes author-name inconsistency; flagged three other unverified 2026 preprint IDs in that note for confirmation.

2026-06-08 — Iteration 2: five refereed research tracks + synthesis

Scope: First forward-research iteration. A multi-agent workflow ran five deep, web-verified, adversarially-refereed investigations plus a unifying synthesis; results filed under notes/ and integrated into the registries and FINDINGS.md. 38 agents; 0/25 new claims flagged unsound by the referee; several overclaims corrected in place.

Track outcomes:

de Sitter / emergent spacetime — the Λ>0 graduation is a structural barrier; CLPW Type II₁ static-patch algebra is a genuine Λ>0 entropy foothold (strengthens H4), but there is no dS RT surface and no dS entanglement-first-law⟹Einstein chain. Reinforces H2 (negative result).
Born rule & linearity — Born form is forced (Gleason dim≥3 + Busch/CFRS dim=2); the quantitative-probability meaning in no-collapse QM is OPEN. Exact linearity is plausibly derivative of no-signaling for deterministic dynamics (Gisin/Polchinski; Bielińska–Eckstein–Horodecki 2024) but untested at the stochastic objective-collapse scale.
Tabletop quantum gravity (BMV) — logically valid but premise-dependent: a positive result falsifies mean-field and classical-channel gravity and constrains stochastic-CQ (non-classicality of the Newtonian sector) — but not graviton quantization. Live 2025–26 disputes (Di Biagio; Aziz–Howl vs rebuttals) catalogued.
Entropic / emergent gravity — disaggregated: Jacobson (1995) is a genuine theorem given the area law + Unruh T; Padmanabhan a structural rewriting; Sakharov a mechanism; Verlinde-2011 a heuristic; Verlinde-2016 dark matter testable but disfavored at cluster/CMB scales. Correction: an iteration-1 framing wrongly implied galaxy weak-lensing (Brouwer 2021) disfavors Verlinde EG — it actually agrees; the disfavoring is cluster/CMB/Bullet-Cluster (fixed in UNIFICATION_LANDSCAPE.md).
Algebraic background-independence — the modular/crossed-product program (Witten; CLPW; KLS 2024–25) is a rigorous reorganization that encodes, not generates geometry: a fixed background with a Killing/conformal symmetry is an input throughout (conceded by Witten 2308.03663; sharpened by Giddings 2505.22708).

Synthesis verdict: PARTIAL coherence. Two internally-coherent programs — (A) geometry-from-algebra and (B) is-the-quantum-framework-final — joined only by thin bridges (no-signaling/causal-order, and BMV as a logical gate). The "it's all information" fusion is explicitly refused. Defensible posture: a program of demotion-and-derivation.

Registry deltas: added OP-40…OP-47; added A-20…A-23 and sharpened the linearity (A-3) and Born-rule (A-4/QM-3) assumptions; added hypothesis refinements (H2-R1, H4-R2, H4-R3, HYP-GIE-DISCRIM, HYP-ENTROPIC-GRAVITY-SPLIT); corrected the Verlinde-EG lensing characterization. Recent results web-verified; uncertain bibliographic details flagged [unverified].

2026-06-08 — Iteration 1: initial build

Scope: First full pass. Bootstrapped the entire wiki via a multi-agent workflow.

Method:

Domain dossiers — parallel deep-dives across 10 domains (QM, QFT, GR, classical mechanics, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, cosmology, particle physics, information theory, mathematics for physics), each capturing core formalism, foundational assumptions (classified), domain of validity, breakdowns, internal open problems, and connections.
Cross-cutting analysis — dedicated agents (fed all dossiers) produced: contradictions/tensions, the open-problems registry, the assumptions ledger, the unification-landscape survey, and the candidate-principles list.
Hypothesis generation — three independent lenses (information/emergent-spacetime, geometric/algebraic, discrete/computational) plus a feasibility assessment of whether a universal theory is possible.
Adversarial verification — a skeptical referee reviewed every contradiction and every candidate hypothesis against known no-go theorems and data; verdicts (errors, overclaims, refinements, severity, keep/drop) are attached to each item.
Authoring — content pages written from the verified corpus; meta-pages (README, AGENTS, EPISTEMICS, ROADMAP, this changelog) authored directly.

Conventions established:

Five epistemic tags; assumption-classification scheme; four-way distinction (logical inconsistency / domain mismatch / unsolved problem / conceptual tension); the anti-crank verification gate; stable IDs (OP-n, GC-n, Hn = H0–H8, A-n).

Post-build QC (same day): Ran a structural-integrity audit across all 26 pages — links, headers, ID ranges, epistemic tags, citations, internal contradictions. Result was clean (zero broken links, zero missing headers; ID ranges OP-1..39, GC-1..17, A-1..19, H0–H8 all contiguous; no fabricated citations). Four minor fixes applied: (1) FINDINGS.md was authored in the main loop because a filename heuristic blocked the authoring subagent's write; (2) standardized the Goroff–Sagnotti two-loop-divergence date to 1985 across all pages; (3) aligned statistical-mechanics.md wording on self-gravitating entropy with the GC-17 refinement; (4) reconciled the hypothesis-ID convention (Hn = H0–H8) in the meta-pages.

Known limitations of iteration 1 (to address next):

References in BIBLIOGRAPHY.md are canonical-source level; exact paper-level details flagged [unverified] where not certain and should be checked against primary literature.
Quantitative claims (constants, tensions like H0/S8, anomaly significances) are stated to standard textbook precision; a future pass should refresh against current measured values and re-tag.
Hypotheses are research directions, not results; none is yet backed by a distinguishing experimental prediction.

Next iteration: see ROADMAP.md.