Volume 27 · Back matter

Breaking Evidence

New results that could move the volume's weaknesses.

The volume's weak-points page names the gaps. This page names the evidence that might close them. Most entries will start as watching and only move to promising once the citation, replication, and relevance are clear.

2026 · Berkeley

Watching

Research on matter formation

New work from Berkeley appears to bear on how matter forms in the regimes the volume tracks. The exact paper, group, and claim are still being verified; the entry is held as a placeholder until the citation and result can be stated precisely.

Touches

Chapter 3 · Chapter 16 · Chapter 17 · gravitational metamaterials

What would change

If the result provides a laboratory or observational anchor for engineered effective-mass systems, Finding 01 (no direct experimental anchor) would need to be narrowed or retired. If it instead strengthens the analogue-gravity picture in another wave system, it would be filed as a proxy, not an anchor.

What still needs checking

Full citation (authors, title, journal/preprint, date), the exact system studied, whether the effect is gravitational or an analogue in a different medium, and whether the result has been independently reproduced.

How to add an entry

New evidence is logged in src/lib/geometry-breaking-evidence.ts. An entry needs a source, a one-sentence summary, the chapters or findings it touches, a status, and a statement of what would have to change. Until the citation is solid, leave the status as watching.

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