Acceptance criterion 1: the toy Lagrangian (OP11)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Acceptance criterion 1 is the referees’ demand for one explicit action, a toy model being enough, in which Born reciprocity ρ, the exchange (x, p) → (p, −x), is a genuine symmetry that the vacuum breaks, with the neutral metric η as the order parameter. In ordinary quantum mechanics ρ is only a change of description, carried out by the Fourier transform; the program claims more, and the referees asked to see it in a model. The referees of review rounds 1 and 2 named it independently, and the program made it the first acceptance criterion for anything it proposes. Checkpoint #11 records it as met in the referees’ wording by model I, a sigma model of a phase-space metric and a real structure, with a bounded ρ-preserving potential. A simulation with all fields dynamical, a derivation of the potential and forced locality of matter remain open. One clause of an older wording, that η also select the electric sublattice, is not addressed.

Success criteria S0–S5 and the pre-registered predictions

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The success criteria are six pass-or-fail tests, S0 to S5, written down on 19 October 2026 before either toy model was built, together with a forecast of how each would come out. Four of them encode the referees’ literal demand: prior work is cited, the action is symmetric, the symmetry permutes the vacua, and an order parameter distinguishes them. Two encode the deeper objection that the framework does no work: the breaking must survive quantum fluctuations, and it must make matter’s interactions local in position. Fixing the tests first means the results are judged by standards chosen before the results were known, as the program’s pre-registered forecasts do for its review rounds. The worklog scored all four forecasts as hits, before the round-4 review narrowed several of the results that the scoring relied on.

Toy models of broken reciprocity on The Broken-Born program

Acceptance criterion 1: the toy Lagrangian (OP11)

Success criteria S0–S5 and the pre-registered predictions