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118 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 78 claims, 13 questions, 26 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• De Haro and Elizalde (2026) argue Einstein's 1907–1916 route to geometric GR needed two separate heuristics because he read the invariant ds as a Gaussian geometric 'line element' rather than operationally as proper time
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · physics, history-of-science, general-relativity, einstein, equivalence-principle
• In 'Cartographing Gravity' (2026) the organizing terms 'conatus' and 'potentia' are imported from Spinoza's Ethics to name inertia and gravitation, with conatus also traced to a rival non-Spinozist sense in Hobbes
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, spinoza, conatus, operationalism
• De Haro and Elizalde (2026) argue the nonlinear completion of their operational gravity is forced to be Einstein's field equations specifically, by Lovelock's 1971 uniqueness theorem under covariance, second-order, and conservation assumptions
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · physics, general-relativity, philosophy-of-physics, lovelock-theorem, uniqueness
• De Haro and Elizalde (2026) reconstruct linearized general relativity from 'conatus' (proper-time extremization) and 'potentia' (gravitational modulation of clock rate), treating geometry as a derived synthesis rather than a starting postulate
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · physics, general-relativity, philosophy-of-physics, operationalism, equivalence-principle
• Has Jaume de Haro's proper-time / dynamical reconstruction of general relativity been corroborated by any independent author group?
  question open 2026-10-31 · physics, general-relativity, philosophy-of-physics, single-source, corroboration
• Did the 2016 quantum pigeonhole PNAS paper actually win the Cozzarelli Prize, per PNAS/NAS's own announcement?
  capture promoted 2026-10-27 · physics, quantum-foundations, quantum-pigeonhole, awards, cozzarelli-prize
• Cartographing Gravity: Operational Maps, the Conatus of Proper Time, and the Potentia of Matter (de Haro & Elizalde, 2026)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-26 · physics, general-relativity, philosophy-of-physics, operationalism, spinoza
• What is the exact URL and source_sha for Tirzah Kaufherr's Tel Aviv University faculty page listing her 1981 PhD thesis?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-25 · physics, quantum-foundations, aharonov, kaufherr, source-provenance
• Did Aharonov's quantum-frames-of-reference work with Aage Petersen actually predate its 1973/74 and 1984 publication by roughly a decade?
  capture promoted 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, reference-frame, history-of-science, priority
• Does Bohm and Aharonov's 1957 Physical Review paper actually show quantum correlations exceed the natural classical account, ahead of Bell 1964?
  capture promoted 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, epr, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• Bohm and Aharonov's 1957 result is narrower than Bell's 1964 theorem because the Wu-Shaknov apparatus only ever measured parallel or perpendicular polarizations
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, epr, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• Bohm and Aharonov's 1957 calculation ruled out Furry's classical-mixture hypothesis, not every classical account of the Wu-Shaknov correlations
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, epr, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• Tirzah Kaufherr's PhD thesis on quantum frames of reference predates the 1984 Aharonov–Kaufherr journal paper by three years
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, reference-frame, history-of-science, priority
• Abner Shimony heard Aharonov's 1957-paper priority claim directly in the 1960s and built a new Bell test instead of accepting it
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, epr, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• What is the exact URL and source_sha for Tirzah Kaufherr's Tel Aviv University faculty page listing her 1981 PhD thesis, quoted in claim-kaufherr-1981-phd-thesis-predates-1984-journal-paper-by-three-years?
  question answered 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, aharonov, kaufherr, source-provenance
• Okon, Sudarsky & Wiedemann (2026, arXiv:2610.29804) at the single-source cap: no independent corroboration found, but direct comparison against Collins & Popescu (2025) shows the critique characterizes their proposal accurately
  capture promoted 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-mechanics, quantum-measurement, conservation-laws, reference-frames
• A Personal History in Quantum Foundations: an Oral History Interview (arXiv:2610.30998)
  capture promoted 2026-10-23 · physics, history-of-science, quantum-foundations, oral-history, arxiv
• Aharonov's 1988 weak-value concept originated from noticing measurement disturbance scales as epsilon-squared while extracted information scales as epsilon
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, weak-value, weak-measurement, history-of-science
• The 2016 quantum pigeonhole principle shows three particles can occupy only two boxes with no two ever found together
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, weak-value, quantum-pigeonhole, history-of-science
• Aharonov's quantum-frames-of-reference work predates its 1973/74 and 1984 publication by roughly a decade
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, reference-frame, history-of-science, priority
• Aharonov's one meeting with Niels Bohr consisted of Bohr lecturing him for an hour rather than hearing his question
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, history-of-science, niels-bohr, anecdote
• Aharonov considers Aharonov-Bohm-type "dynamical" nonlocality more fundamental than Bell-type entanglement
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, aharonov-bohm-effect, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• Bohm and Aharonov's 1957 EPR paper showed quantum correlations exceed the natural classical account, years before Bell's theorem
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, epr, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• Collins & Popescu's own text confirms the noncommuting-conserved-quantities case was left as open conjecture, as Okon, Sudarsky & Wiedemann report it
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-mechanics, quantum-measurement, conservation-laws, quant-ph
• Okon, Sudarsky & Wiedemann's reconstruction of Collins & Popescu's chain-of-preparers argument accurately restates it, not a strawman
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-mechanics, quantum-measurement, conservation-laws, reference-frames
• Okon, Sudarsky & Wiedemann's footnote explicitly distinguishes their regress argument from Collins & Popescu's chain-of-preparers rebuttal, preempting the obvious objection
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-mechanics, quantum-measurement, conservation-laws, reference-frames
• The 2016 quantum pigeonhole principle paper won PNAS's Cozzarelli Prize
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, quantum-pigeonhole, awards, cozzarelli-prize
• Did Aharonov's quantum-frames-of-reference work with Aage Petersen actually predate its 1973/74 and 1984 publication by roughly a decade?
  question answered 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, reference-frame, history-of-science, priority
• Does Bohm and Aharonov's 1957 Physical Review paper actually show quantum correlations exceed the natural classical account, ahead of Bell 1964?
  question answered 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, epr, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• Corbeel & De Haro (2026, arXiv:2610.28185) at the single-source cap — what corroborates the review, and does the title-slogan claim earn the fourth slot?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-22 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, black-holes, quantum-information, black-hole-information-paradox
• Conservation in Every Quantum Measurement Outcome?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-22 · physics, quantum-mechanics, quantum-measurement, conservation-laws, reference-frames
• Okon, Sudarsky & Wiedemann's spin-1/2 example shows the compensating-preparer mechanism cannot simultaneously conserve noncommuting quantities
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-22 · physics, quantum-mechanics, quantum-measurement, conservation-laws, quant-ph
• Okon, Sudarsky & Wiedemann argue the compensating-preparer mechanism only restores statistical, not individual-outcome, conservation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-22 · physics, quantum-mechanics, quantum-measurement, conservation-laws, quant-ph
• Okon, Sudarsky & Wiedemann argue the 'preparer' reference-frame justification for individual-outcome conservation generates an infinite regress
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-22 · physics, quantum-mechanics, quantum-measurement, conservation-laws, reference-frames
• Black Holes are about Quantum Information (Corbeel & De Haro, 2026)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-21 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, black-holes, quantum-information, black-hole-information-paradox
• Corbeel & De Haro (2026) treat the black hole 'central dogma' as an unproven modelling assumption, not an established result
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-21 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, black-holes, quantum-information, black-hole-information-paradox
• Corbeel & De Haro: the Hayden–Preskill model recasts an evaporating black hole as an 'information mirror,' with entanglement playing two distinct roles
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-21 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, black-holes, quantum-information, hayden-preskill
• Corbeel & De Haro: replica-wormhole results reproduce the Page bound, but not yet for an ordinary Schwarzschild black hole
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-21 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, black-holes, quantum-information, page-time
• Witten's no-boundary-as-universal-vacuum conjecture is a third, separate strand from the Curiel/Ferreiro-Cavallaro semiclassical-gravity cluster
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-20 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-gravity, background-independence, algebraic-qft
• Vinck & De Haro (2026) independently confirm Witten's no-boundary hypothesis generalizes the Bunch-Davies vacuum's role from de Sitter space to general spacetimes
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-20 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-gravity, hartle-hawking, de-sitter
• Witten's 2023/2025 paper states, in his own words, a two-part 'universal no-boundary state' hypothesis for general spacetimes
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-20 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-gravity, hartle-hawking, de-sitter
• Witten/CLPW's no-boundary-state strand and the Curiel/Ferreiro-Cavallaro matter-spacetime-divide strand never cite each other and share no authors, only common QFT-in-curved-spacetime background references
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-20 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-gravity, semiclassical-gravity, background-independence
• The term 'background-independence' originated in 1980s string theory and was popularized in the 1990s Witten–Rovelli/Smolin dispute
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-17 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, history-of-physics, background-independence, string-theory
• CLPW's 'gravitational dressing to an observer's worldline' is a crossed product of a Type III von Neumann algebra with its modular automorphism group, yielding Type II
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-17 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-gravity, von-neumann-algebras, algebraic-qft
• Vinck & De Haro (2026): CLPW's algebraic framework is semiclassically but not perturbatively background-independent
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-17 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-gravity, background-independence, semiclassical-gravity
• Vinck & De Haro (2026) argue no existing philosophical definition of background-independence captures Witten's claim for the CLPW algebra
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-17 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-gravity, background-independence, algebraic-qft
• Vinck & De Haro (2026) redefine 'background-independent algebra' as representation-independence rather than dynamical spacetime
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-17 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-gravity, background-independence, algebraic-qft
• Curiel's 2019 non-existence theorem, read directly, matches Ferreiro & Cavallaro's (2026) reconstruction of it — condition for condition
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-15 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, general-relativity, corroboration, gravitational-stress-energy-tensor
• Curiel's 2019 gravitational non-existence theorem has documented contact with the Jacobson-Padmanabhan thermodynamic-gravity program, not with Wheeler's informational ontology or the holographic principle
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-14 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, general-relativity, semiclassical-gravity, thermodynamic-gravity
• Does Curiel's own 2019 published non-existence theorem match Ferreiro & Cavallaro's (2026) reconstruction of it?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-13 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, general-relativity, corroboration, single-source-cap
• The 8-arcminute Mars equant-error figure traces to Kepler's own Astronomia Nova (1609), Ch. 19 — not to Bracco & Provost — but is not yet independently confirmed at Tier 1
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-10-13 · physics, history-of-science, astronomy, kepler, ptolemy
• A direct read of Bracco & Provost (2009) finds no 8-arcminute Mars-accuracy figure, despite being Astronomia Ova's cited source for it
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-13 · physics, history-of-science, astronomy, kepler, ptolemy
• Does Ferreiro & Cavallaro's (2026) egalitarian reading have documented contact with information-theoretic treatments of spacetime? — capture
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-12 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, general-relativity, semiclassical-gravity, trace-anomaly
• A 2016 Russian historical review, independent of Robert Singer's 2026 preprint, documents the same 1895–1904 chain of corrections to the kinetic-energy substitution error — with a different narrative center of gravity
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-12 · physics, classical-mechanics, nonholonomic-systems, history-of-science, historiography
• The name "Hadamard–Hamel problem" for the kinetic-energy substitution question predates Robert Singer's 2026 preprint by at least a decade
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-12 · physics, classical-mechanics, nonholonomic-systems, history-of-science, historiography
• Udwadia and Wanichanon's 2010 paper, read directly, confirms Singer's quotations are accurate — and shows exactly where the two papers part ways
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-12 · physics, classical-mechanics, nonholonomic-systems, history-of-science, historiography
• Does an independent source corroborate Astronomia Ova's (arXiv:2610.05358) central result and its ~8-arcminute Mars equant-error figure?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-11 · physics, history-of-science, astronomy, kepler, ptolemy
• Ferreiro and Cavallaro (2026) extend Lehmkuhl's 'egalitarian' reading of GR: in QFT on curved spacetime the metric gains material significance alongside its geometric and gravitational ones
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-11 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, general-relativity, semiclassical-gravity, trace-anomaly
• Quantizing matter fields on curved spacetime makes a gravitational stress-energy tensor possible where classical GR proved none could exist
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-11 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-field-theory, general-relativity, semiclassical-gravity
• Ferreiro and Cavallaro (2026): splitting total stress-energy into 'gravitational' and 'matter' parts needs a vacuum choice generic spacetimes lack, producing a dilemma that collapses the classical matter/spacetime divide
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-11 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, general-relativity, semiclassical-gravity, trace-anomaly
• Does Curiel's own 2019 published non-existence theorem match Ferreiro & Cavallaro's (2026) reconstruction of it?
  question answered 2026-10-11 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, general-relativity, corroboration, single-source-cap
• Moore, Smith & Mertens (2026) construct an orbit family that satisfies Kepler's second law about one point and an exact Ptolemaic equant about a different point simultaneously
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · physics, history-of-science, astronomy, kepler, ptolemy
• Hehl, McCrea, Mielke & Ne'eman's 1995 review already defines a hypermomentum current coupled to the affine connection — the mechanism the 2024 'hypermomentum challenge' turns on
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, gravity, gauge-theory, hypermomentum
• Iosifidis & Hehl (2024) state, in their own words, that they are first to show hypermomentum breaks the Geometric Trinity's equivalence — while naming Wolf & Read (2023) as their target and building on an existing equation-of-motion lineage
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, gravity, gauge-theory, hypermomentum
• Kepler's 1609 Astronomia Nova records his frustration at the oval orbit's quadrature and his explicit rejection of a near-elliptical 'puffy-cheeked' orbit (the via buccosa)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · physics, history-of-science, astronomy, kepler, astronomia-nova
• Ptolemy's equant model missed Mars's position by about 8 arcminutes — within antiquity's observational reach but outside Tycho Brahe's 1–2 arcminute precision, which is why Kepler had to abandon it
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · physics, history-of-science, astronomy, kepler, ptolemy
• Does an independent source corroborate Astronomia Ova's (arXiv:2610.05358) central result and its ~8-arcminute Mars equant-error figure?
  question open 2026-10-10 · physics, history-of-science, astronomy, kepler, ptolemy
• When quantum field theory kicks in: the relation between matter, gravity and energy (arXiv:2610.10588) — capture
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-09 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-field-theory, general-relativity, semiclassical-gravity
• Hamel's own 1949 textbook states the prohibition at the very knife-edge example later cited as posing the "paradox," and gives the reason using Neumann's 1899 term
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-09 · physics, classical-mechanics, nonholonomic-systems, history-of-science, historiography
• "Hamel's paradox" is a 2010 coinage by Udwadia and Wanichanon, not a problem Hamel himself posed or left open
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-09 · physics, classical-mechanics, nonholonomic-systems, history-of-science, historiography
• Zhonghao Lu (2026) argues the full Hilbert space is physical, against Carcassi et al. (2025) and Heathcote (1990)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-09 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-mechanics, hilbert-space, modality
• Lu (2026) proposes θ-Intermediatism — a hierarchical, layered view of physicality rather than a single binary cut
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-09 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-mechanics, hilbert-space, modality
• Zhonghao Lu's (2026) reference list cites the wrong arXiv identifier for the paper his whole argument rebuts
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-09 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-mechanics, hilbert-space, citation-accuracy
• The inadmissibility of substituting a velocity constraint into kinetic energy before forming Lagrange's equations, and its exact limits of validity, were established in print between 1895 and 1904
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-09 · physics, classical-mechanics, nonholonomic-systems, history-of-science, historiography
• The unbounded-operator domain-restriction problem in quantum mechanics was first raised in the foundations-of-physics literature by Heathcote (1990), restated by Carcassi, Calderón & Aidala (2025)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-09 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-mechanics, hilbert-space, functional-analysis
• The Hamel's-paradox-myth branch now rests three claim-notes on a single unrefereed preprint (arXiv:2609.35857) with no independent corroboration — what confirms it, and what else from the same paper is on hold?
  question open 2026-10-09 · single-source-cap, corroboration, physics, classical-mechanics, nonholonomic-systems
• Does Hehl et al. 1995 actually contain a latent spin-torsion/hypermomentum tension, and does Iosifidis & Hehl 2024 actually make it technically explicit for the first time?
  capture promoted 2026-10-06 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, gravity, gauge-theory, hypermomentum
• Astronomia Ova: Kepler's Laws, Ptolemy's Equant, and Legendre's Polynomials (arXiv:2610.05358)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-06 · physics, history-of-science, astronomy, kepler, ptolemy
• Unbounded Operators, Physicality, and Modality in Quantum Theories (arXiv:2609.28136) — capture
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-05 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-mechanics, hilbert-space, modality
• Gauge gravity's 'hypermomentum challenge' breaks the Geometric Trinity's equivalence unless matter doesn't couple to the affine connection — a condition currently untestable
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-05 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, gravity, gauge-theory, geometric-trinity
• The 'Geometric Trinity' claims general relativity, TEGR, and STEGR are dynamically equivalent despite resting on different geometric foundations
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-05 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, gravity, gauge-theory, geometric-trinity
• Tiwari dates the hypermomentum challenge's technical content to Iosifidis & Hehl (2024), with the underlying tension latent in gauge-gravity literature since Hehl et al. (1995)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-05 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, gravity, gauge-theory, hypermomentum
• Does Hehl et al. 1995 actually contain a latent spin-torsion/hypermomentum tension, and does Iosifidis & Hehl 2024 actually make it technically explicit for the first time?
  question open 2026-10-05 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, gravity, gauge-theory, hypermomentum
• The Myth of Hamel's Paradox (arXiv:2609.35857)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-04 · physics, classical-mechanics, nonholonomic-systems, history-of-science, historiography
• Does Li & Torr's 1992 APS conference abstract itself state 'provide a basis for the electrical generation of gravitational fields in the laboratory,' as a 2010 DIA survey document quotes it?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-25 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Li & Torr's 1992 APS conference abstract remains unlocated after a multi-route search, leaving its 'generator' quote resting on a single, uncorroborated transcription
  claim seedling Tier n/a — negative/absence finding; no primary text was found to quote directly 2026-08-25 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Do Li & Torr's 1992 Physical Review B paper and the 1994 UAH preprint (Li, Torr & Karwacki) actually state that rotating ions in a superconductor could generate a usable antigravity field?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Li & Torr's 1992 Physical Review B paper is a theoretical model of superconductor magnetic permeability, not a claim that rotating ions generate a usable antigravity field
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• The Li–Torr 'generate gravity in the laboratory' claim traces to a 1992 APS conference abstract and the 1993 Foundations of Physics Letters paper, not the 1991 or 1992 journal papers
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• The 1994 Li, Torr & Karwacki UAH preprint on lattice-ion rotation could not be located after a multi-route search, and its content remains unverified
  claim seedling Tier n/a — negative/absence finding; no primary text was found to quote 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Does Li & Torr's 1992 APS conference abstract itself state 'provide a basis for the electrical generation of gravitational fields in the laboratory,' as a 2010 DIA survey document quotes it?
  question open 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• What do the primary sources say about Ning Li's 1991 gravitomagnetic proposal and its 2011 replication?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-23 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• The 2011 'replication' in the superconductor-antigravity literature was Martin Tajmar's own research group re-testing its own 2006–2009 apparatus, not an independent University of Colorado Boulder team
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-23 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Edward G. Harris's 1999 peer-reviewed paper formally rebutted Torr and Li's claim that a superconductor generates a detectable gravitomagnetic/gravitoelectric field
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-23 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Do Li & Torr's 1992 Physical Review B paper and the 1994 UAH preprint (Li, Torr & Karwacki) actually state that rotating ions in a superconductor could generate a usable antigravity field?
  question open 2026-08-23 · physics, antigravity, superconductivity, ning-li, primary-source-verification
• Too clean to be real — a room-temperature-superconductivity claim unmade by forensic reading of the published data, not by failed replication
  topic map 2026-08-14 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, condensed-matter, superconductivity
• Verify Hirsch's forensic critique, the 'data alteration and manipulation' quote, and the Sept 2022 Nature retraction of Dias's room-temperature superconductivity paper against primaries
  capture promoted 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, condensed-matter, superconductivity
• Hirsch's arXiv trouble was two distinct events: administrators withdrew his CSH-fraud paper in December 2021, and he was separately banned from posting in February 2022
  claim seedling 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch
• Hirsch modeled his CSH-fraud critique on a 2009 Debessai et al. europium paper he argues is a confirmed precedent case of data alteration
  claim seedling 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch
• Hirsch and van der Marel's 2022 technical analysis concludes CSH's reported susceptibility data are a smoothly-varying spline plus a quantized artifact, not a genuine background subtraction
  claim seedling 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch
• Nature's 2022 retraction notice for the Dias carbonaceous-sulfur-hydride paper cites an undisclosed, non-standard background-subtraction procedure
  claim seedling 2026-08-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch
• Formula 1 cars generate documented peak lateral g-forces of 'over 5G' at corner apexes, per the sport's own teams
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · motorsport, physics, biomechanics, breast-health
• The 2019 SI kilogram redefinition was underpinned by counting atoms in near-perfect enriched silicon-28 spheres to determine the Avogadro constant
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · metrology, physics, SI-units, measurement-history, avogadro-constant
• The Avogadro Project's silicon-28 spheres are so round that at Earth's scale their surface would deviate only 3–5 meters
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · metrology, physics, materials, measurement-history, avogadro-constant
• Gravity Probe B measured Earth's frame-dragging at 37.2 ± 7.2 mas/yr, matching general relativity's 39.2 mas/yr prediction
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-11 · physics, general-relativity, frame-dragging, gravity-probe-b, metrology
• Hopfield's 1982 associative memory is a system of Ising spins whose retrieval dynamics minimize an energy function borrowed from spin-glass physics
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · hopfield-networks, associative-memory, spin-glass, ising-model, physics
• John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for the artificial-neural-network architecture, framed by the committee as a physics object
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · hopfield-networks, hinton, nobel-prize, history-of-ml, physics
• Ning Li and Douglas Torr's 1991 Physical Review D paper models a superconductor's passive response to an external gravitomagnetic field; the field-generating 'antigravity' claim belongs to their later, unread 1992–1994 papers
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, ning-li
• Superconductor-based antigravity effects have never been independently replicated; the vault's original '2011 Boulder Physical Review Letters' attribution is unconfirmed — the actual 2011 primary is Martin Tajmar's own team re-testing its own apparatus
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, replication
• Thermoluminescence dating, developed at Oxford in the 1960s, became a commercial forgery detector for antiquities a generation after chemistry unmasked van Meegeren
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, thermoluminescence, archaeometry, forensic-authentication, physics
• Does Hopfield's 1982 energy function derive specifically from the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick spin-glass model?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · hopfield-networks, spin-glass, ising-model, physics, history-of-ml
• What do the primary sources say about Ning Li's 1991 gravitomagnetic proposal and its 2011 replication?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · physics, antigravity, superconductivity, replication, verification
• The h-index inventor became science's fraud-hunting forensic mathematician
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, bibliometrics, research-integrity, physics, fraud-detection
• A CSIRO optician's hand-feel for nanometers helped redefine the kilogram
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · metrology, physics, craftsmanship, measurement-history, SI-units
• The antigravity physicist inside the 2026 'dead scientists' conspiracy theory
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · fringe-science, conspiracy-theory, physics, nasa, defense-funding
• Jorge Hirsch, the h-index's inventor, used data-pattern forensics to help force the retraction of Ranga Dias's room-temperature superconductivity claim
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, condensed-matter, superconductivity
• Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter physicist, invented the h-index in 2005 as a single number for an individual scientist's output
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, h-index, hirsch, research-assessment
• Verify Hirsch's forensic critique, the 'data alteration and manipulation' quote, and the Sept 2022 Nature retraction of Dias's room-temperature superconductivity paper against primaries
  question open 2026-07-09 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, physics, superconductivity, hirsch