Physicist Layer — Full Derivation Record

Eight Postulates, One Core Sample Each

A stratigraphic read of what's proven, what's assumed, and what's still open — as of Master Document v48 (2026-08-27). Each bar is a cross-section of a postulate's derivation record: solid strata are proven, hatched layers are open ground. This is the unabridged version of the Status page — full technical detail, not distilled for a general audience.

Derived Partial / Conditional Postulated Conjecture / Open Eliminated (on record)
Aggregate — the theory as a whole
Computed live below by simple average across all eight postulates' segment data — not a literal document metric. STATUS-TAG CHANGE, v43: Postulate 6/8's “which 4 of 7” generator-assignment question is upgraded from CONJECTURE/OPEN to DERIVED (Addendum GQ, an exact proof via Cayley-Dickson doubling, not numerical evidence) — the aggregate above reflects this. v41–v42 (Addenda GE–GN) advanced the H.17/AZ.13 decoupling and Postulate-3 literal-coefficient threads with no formal status-tag changes. v44 (Addenda GR–GU) generalizes the H.17 nucleation mechanism to a third construction, tests four external escape routes proposed by outside collaborators (all four negative), proves G2 has no invariant fixed direction on any construction (unifying four earlier failed attempts as one fact), and corrects a substrate-naming mix-up affecting Postulate 7's AZ.13 discharge-mechanism entry (see P7) — no formal status-tag changes that round. v45 (Addenda GV–HC, eight addenda) settles H.17's own six-construction plateau puzzle after a 121-hour computation reaching N=261,815: the outlier construction genuinely plateaus, confirming the earlier claim but at a materially lower value (est. 1.5–1.7%, not 2.05–2.39%); three further hypotheses for its uniqueness (nilpotency class, center ratio, derived-subalgebra ratio) are excluded across a seventh tested construction; a second, symmetry-based obstruction axis is identified alongside GT's counting-based one; and three more candidate escapes (causal-set order theory, BFSS Matrix Theory, nonlocal fermionization) are tested and closed. Separately, Postulate 7's AZ.13 entry gets a correction-in-place: the GR anisotropy figure (0.386) is found not scale-invariant, climbing across tested radii rather than settling — flagged open, not reversed (see P7). No formal status-tag changes this round either. v46 (Addenda HD–HF) runs the most thorough sweep yet on why H₁(ℤ) uniquely plateaus — eight constructions and six candidate discriminators now excluded, still unexplained — and closes all four externally-proposed H.17-resolution mechanisms (two were already closed elsewhere in the record, unknown to the proposing survey; two closed on direct test); separately backfills a previously-lost eight-addendum thread (Addenda AA–AH, recovered from a 2026-07-17 session, cited by letter in three later addenda with nothing behind the citation until now). v47 is documentation-only, no new physics: restores an early Master Document snapshot (Part III §G) and a further nine addenda (AO–AX, 2026-07-18/19), and closes the companion Addenda Archive's own long-standing Contents-index gap. v48 (Addenda HG–HJ) tests H.17's long-flagged "fifth paradigm" — an associator-directed accretion walk — still log-diameter, an eighth independent construction landing in that class; closes off a potential fourth literal-coefficient candidate for Postulate 3 via a new exact identity and a Schur's-lemma proof (the three-way underdetermination itself remains exactly as open as before); and applies a conductance diagnostic to that same construction, sharpening rather than reproducing an earlier bottleneck finding — a ninth independent construction sharing the log-diameter default. No formal status-tag changes across v46–v48. H.17 remains CONJECTURE/OPEN, PERMANENT ENTRY.