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Replication. Reproducing or auditing a published claim Tagged papers: 27.
Quantifying the Reuse Barrier in Published Omics Data: Dispersal, Cost, and Feasibility Models for Agent-Supported Retrieval, Reanalysis, and Synthesis
Most published omics data remain functionally inaccessible for computational reuse: the information needed to reproduce a reported result is dispersed across article main text, supplementary files, and code repositories, and intermediate data such as protein abundance tables are shared irregularly…
Falsification Criteria for Quantum-Advantage Claims: An Effective-Criterion Audit Framework
Claims of quantum advantage are frequently stated in forms that resist empirical refutation: the advantage is qualified by hardware assumptions, sampling definitions, or problem encodings that can be revised after a classical rebuttal appears. This paper constructs a structured falsification…
Thresholded Readout of Continuous Classical Fields: A Formalization and Counterexample to the Uniqueness Claim for Quantum Mechanics
A family of contemporary foundational programs asserts that reality is a continuum of local deterministic fields and that quantum mechanics is the unique calculus bridging this continuum to discrete measurement outcomes. If that uniqueness claim were correct, research seeking additional physical…
Cross-Model LLM Convergence as Bayesian Evidence for Scientific Claim Correctness: A Formal Framework, Worked Derivations, and a Calibration Protocol
Verifying novel or fringe scientific claims is bottlenecked by the scarcity of domain experts. We propose and formalize a gate-checking method in which agreement between two or more independently trained large language models (LLMs) — not merely on a verdict but on the same multi-step argument…
Gate-Check Convergence: A Benchmark Protocol and Statistical Design for Measuring Cross-Model Agreement on Fringe Physics Claims
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly consulted as informal arbiters of scientific claims, including claims at the fringe of established physics, yet no published protocol measures whether independent models converge on such verdicts because they retrieve a shared consensus or because they…
Is the Meta-Pattern of Reification Physically Real? A Reconciled Audit with a Quantified Cost Framework
A the QNFO archive document (https://papers.qnfo.org/papers/meta-pattern-of-reification-in-physics/) proposes a "Meta-Pattern of Reification in Physics" and poses the question of whether this pattern is something physically real rather than a descriptive regularity. This paper treats that question…
Braid Group Representations and Modular Data: Non-Uniqueness, Finite Images, and the Ising Test Case
A central question in the theory of topological order asks whether the braid group representation $B_N$ carried by $N$ non-Abelian anyons uniquely determines the modular data — the $S$ and $T$ matrices — of the underlying topological quantum field theory. We reconcile three lines of analysis into a…
Braid Group Representations, Modular Data, and the Classification of Majorana Zero Mode Fusion Rules in 2D Topological Superconductors
We investigate whether the braid group representation on $N$ anyons uniquely determines the modular data ($S$ and $T$ matrices) of a non-Abelian topological order, and whether this framework classifies all fusion rules for Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in 2D topological superconductors. We show that…
A Pre-Registered Falsification of Deterministic Measurement-Triggered Relaxation
The hydrodynamic re-grounding of quantum mechanics proposes that measurement outcomes arise from a deterministic relaxation of a probability fluid into eigenstate basins, rather than from a discontinuous collapse. A prior adjudication of this program found its central weakness to be the absence of…
Prioritizing Large Language Models for Scientific Research and Agentic AI: A LiveBench-Grounded Audit (August 2026)
An audit of the frontier large-language-model landscape (August 2026) for mathematics-heavy scientific research and agentic AI, grounded in the LiveBench 2026-06-25 contamination-free benchmark. Findings: no Llama model ranks in the top 42; DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is the mathematics price-performance…
Knowing What We Do Not Know: Ignorance Auditing, AI-Generation Detection, and the Epistemic Lessons of an AI-Assisted Research Pipeline
This paper synthesizes three threads from a single research organization's experience with AI-assisted research and publication: the development of a fifteen-question Universal Ignorance Audit, two independent forensic analyses concluding that a flagship published paper was AI-generated, and the…
ODR Thesis: The Compton Count as the Only Primitive — A Five-Question Synthesis
The Ontological Distribution of Reality (ODR) framework identifies a particle with its Compton count \(N_C = m/m_P \in \mathbb{Q}^+\), a dimensionless rational number whose prime factorization assigns it a fixed vertex on the Bruhat–Tits tree. This paper synthesises five research questions into a…
Extending v_p^max Code Classification: Testing the Mahler Spectral Conjecture on Additional Stabilizer Code Families
ACRP-06: Tests UF paper C7.3 on 8 additional codes. Golay CSS confirmed v_p^max=28; all other stabilizer codes cluster at random baseline (1-6). C7.3 bound to Golay-type self-dual codes.
Statistical Audit of the 5-Smooth Semigroup Mass-Ratio Claim
ACRP-04 statistical audit. Verdict: CONSISTENT WITH LOOK-ELSEWHERE ARTIFACT. p_global=0.116; 2 claimed-fit arithmetic errors; 5 non-optimal triples; precise ratios deviate 4-9138 sigma; pre-registered neutrino prediction trivially passes.
Auditing the BQNN: Does a Tunable Quantum Neural Network on Trapped-Ion and Superconducting Hardware Demonstrate a Route to Near-Term Quantum Advantage?
We audit the BQNN paper by Lakhdar-Hamina et al. (2025, PRL / arXiv:2507.21222v2) which implements a tunable quantum neural network on three quantum computing platforms. Through a complete Phase 1-4 research pipeline including due diligence, external literature search across 32 papers, and a 9-stage…
PQS AI-Evaluation Audit: Post-Quantum Synthesis Investigation and AI Gate-Check Analysis
Archive of the complete research record investigating the Post-Quantum Synthesis (PQS) framework: a neutral investigation of PQS's four sub-pillars mapped against external literature, plus an earlier-iteration analysis of AI gate-check convergence between Claude and Gemini evaluating PQS…
Kappa/SIIT Cross-Validation: Exact Reproduction of Standard Model 1-Loop β-Functions and Resolution of the Harmonic-Paradigm Tension
We report a direct mathematical cross-validation of the Kappa / Scale-Invariant Information Thermodynamics framework (Quni-Gudzinas, 2025, the QNFO archive 17218944/17230397) against the Standard Model's known 1-loop renormalization-group β-functions. Through the single definition…
Critical Review: The Stacked Ring Shell Model of Atomic Nuclei
Critical review of "The Stacked Ring Shell Structure of Atomic Nuclei" by Wang XE et al. (2026). Applies five-phase research pipeline: due diligence, literature search, citation audit, red-team review, and quantitative counter-evidence. Finds the stacked ring shell model is a mnemonic classification…
Deep-Dive Research & Critique: IQM/Deutsche Bahn Hybrid Quantum Railway Scheduling
A deep-dive research analysis and red-team critique of IQM and Deutsche Bahn's July 2026 hybrid quantum-classical railway scheduling demonstration. Finds the demo is an honest proof-of-concept substantially overclaimed in marketing: p=1 QAOA on 20-qubit subgraphs adds zero demonstrated advantage.…
Simulation Inconsistency Detection via Neurobiological and Cognitive Interfaces
Here is the continuation of the detailed, merged outline for Chapters 3 through 7, structured by chapter, subsection, and paragraph topic.
SPACETIME CONDENSATE
Standard cosmology (\(\Lambda\)CDM) is currently fractured by two statistically significant anomalies: the \(5\sigma\) Hubble tension between early-universe (Planck) and late-universe (SH0ES) expansion rates, and the 120-order-of-magnitude vacuum catastrophe separating the theoretical Planck density…
Computational Toy Model of Non-Local Information Storage in a Quantum Cellular Automaton
Can local, unitary dynamics generate the kind of non-local information storage that holographic quantum error correction requires? This paper revisits that question with a fully reproducible, exact state-vector simulation of a twelve-qubit quantum cellular automaton (QCA) evolving under the…
Impact of Cognitive Linearity on Epistemic Modeling
This study investigates the epistemological tension between human linear constructs and natural nonlinearity. Drawing on Mach’s principle of the “economy of science,” we argue that linearity serves as a “pragmatic abstraction”—a necessary cognitive and technical simplification that enables…
Higgs Particle Never Existed
The 2012 announcement of the discovery of a new boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was interpreted as the detection of the Higgs particle, a foundational component of the Standard Model. This document presents a formal proof, derived from the first principles of quantum field theory,…
Not Even Wrong
This document presents a rigorous, multi-faceted mathematical deconstruction of String Theory’s claim to be a physical theory of nature. Quantitative metrics are systematically derived for its empirical vacuum, unfalsifiability, and information-theoretic cost, while acknowledging its significant…
Scale-Divergence Problem
This document provides a rigorous examination of the Scale-Divergence Problem, a fundamental schism in modern cosmology that arises from the antithetical performance of the two leading theoretical frameworks—Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) and Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)—across different…
Standard-Deviation Normalization Proof
Let \((\Omega, \mathcal{F}, P)\)be a probability space, and let \(X\)be a real-valued random variable defined on this space, representing a physical observable. Assume \(X\)has a well-defined mean \(\mu = \mathbb{E}[X]\)and finite, positive variance \(\sigma^2 = \mathbb{E}[(X - \mu)^2] > 0\). Let…
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