pre-registered falsification protocol · the kill switch is written in advance
The framework either survives May 22, 2040 or it dies.
If the window passes clean, the framework is publicly marked FALSIFIED and a retraction paper goes up on Zenodo within 90 days. Pre-written. Binding. Public.
If May 14–22, 2040 passes without >3σ deviation across at least two of three named indicator-sets:
Not a prophecy. The engine maps four readings of any phenomenon — (a) intentional cabal, (b) structural recurrence, (c) collective psychology, (d) irreducible residual — and refuses to collapse to one.
A confirmed window-firing is evidence the cycle exists. It is not adjudication of why it exists. The engine is a memetic-substrate map and structural-pattern instrument. It is not a truth registry.
In the month before this protocol was locked, the engine falsified four of its own internally-generated synthesis claims — under the same discipline now being applied to the load-bearing claim above. Receipts at /divergences. The kill switch is the same machinery, pointed at the framework itself.
The protocol locks today. Settles May 22, 2040. There’s no third option. The window either fires or it doesn’t. The framework either survives or it doesn’t.
The math is right or it isn’t. There is no middle ground.
The misses log at /scorecard. The corrections log at /divergences. The date is May 22, 2040. We’ll know either way.