How many facts fit in a causal past
One event per Planck four-volume gives a number with two hundred and forty-four digits, and it caps what a simulation can honestly render.
cosmology
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The instanton exponent was hiding in plain sight
A numerical coincidence I could not explain turns out to be the standard exponential suppression with the coupling pinned by the central charge.
S_dS over pi squared replaced a number I made up
The derived capacity of the horizon, and the fraction of the holographic budget the old numerology was quietly using.
How many operations does the universe get?
Two times the energy times the time, divided by pi hbar. Applied to a horizon, with three independent bounds agreeing.
The one over ten nobody could derive
A single coefficient that stood between a formula and a match, and where it came from, which is nowhere.
A phase picked after the answer was known
The primordial phase was presented as fixed by modular data. The channel and the prefactor were chosen to give pi over six.
A rate that could not equal itself
Setting an expansion rate equal to a replication rate, differing by a factor of ten to the fifty-eight.
a-zero: the formula that did not give its own answer
A critical acceleration whose stated formula evaluates to sixty-six per cent above the value claimed for it.
An exponent that missed by forty-nine orders of magnitude
The worst single error in the programme, and the odd comfort that it was caught by its own printed arithmetic.
The 12 pi that was not 12 pi
An identity I presented as independent confirmation, which is really a definition with a missing factor of omega lambda.
Paper 11: structure growth, withdrawn
Another archived paper, and a note on why archiving beats deleting.
Paper 10b: model comparison as the honest test
A likelihood pipeline built so that the framework can lose. That is the point of building it.
Paper 10a: inflation from branch nucleation, withdrawn
A clean idea with no mechanism behind the number it produced. Archived rather than deleted.
Paper 10: a feature in the primordial spectrum
The claim that a phase is fixed by modular data, why that claim is weak, and the standard mechanism that supplies it instead.
Paper 9b: neutrinos and a baryon asymmetry I cannot yet derive
A two-parameter fit that predicts the neutrino mass sum, followed by a leptogenesis claim that does not survive substitution.
Paper 6: rotation curves from a very long-range mode
A condensate at 10 to the minus 28 metres cannot explain galaxies. Add a horizon-set collective mode and it can reach them.
Paper 5: the cosmological constant, twice wrong and now partly right
Two retractions, one derived capacity, and one exponent that matches to three parts in a hundred thousand.
Two-mode squeezed states and thermal horizons
Why an accelerating horizon looks hot to anyone inside it, worked through with a covariance matrix you can check.
Instanton actions, from 8 pi squared over g squared to 4 pi squared c
The standard exponential suppression, and what happens when the coupling is pinned by a topological level.
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