Carl P. Zimmerman

A Two-Frequency Sub-Millimetre Dish Search at 542 and 596 GHz: A Pre-Registered Kill Test for a Dark-Energy-Tied Gravity Framework (Working Note)

Working note, version 1.0 (2026-10-15). AI-assisted research programme; not peer reviewed. We propose a narrow-band dish-antenna search for a 0.5 mm line at two fixed frequencies, 541.7 GHz and 595.5 GHz. In a framework that ties the galactic acceleration scale to the dark-energy...

The Supply Edge: A Mass-Conserving Rule Without Tuned Radii Fixes Structure Growth Under a Vacuum-Tied MOND Law (Working Note)

Working note, version 2.0 (2026-10-08). AI-assisted research programme; not peer reviewed. Version 1.0 (2026-10-07) stated the supply-edge hypothesis; this version adds the simulations that test it. We study the law a0 = kappa c sqrt(G rho_Lambda) (kappa = 1/2, fitted) with the k...

No External-Field Effect: Cluster-Satellite Lensing, the Cassini Quadrupole and the Outer Solar System Point to an EFE-Blind MOND Sector

Version 1.0 (AI-assisted research programme; not peer reviewed). We test the quadrature MOND law g^2 = g_N^2 + a0 g_N (a0 = (1/2) c sqrt(G rho_Lambda)) against three data sets sensitive to the external-field effect (EFE). Weak lensing of cluster satellites (Sifon et al. 2018, fiv...

What a Complete Mechanism for a Lambda-Tied MOND Law Would Have to Do: A Closure Map of Scoped No-Gos and a Reading of the Requirements

Version 1.1: wording corrections after an independent referee (CFG265: 1 CRITICAL, 3 MAJOR, 19 MINOR, 7 NIT); no result changes. The programme ties the MOND acceleration scale to the vacuum, a0 = kappa c sqrt(G rho_Lambda), with kappa = 1/2 fitted, never derived. Its best current...

What a Complete Mechanism for a Lambda-Tied MOND Law Would Have to Do: A Closure Map of Scoped No-Gos and a Reading of the Requirements

Version 1.1: wording corrections after an independent referee (CFG265: 1 CRITICAL, 3 MAJOR, 19 MINOR, 7 NIT); no result changes. The programme ties the MOND acceleration scale to the vacuum, a0 = kappa c sqrt(G rho_Lambda), with kappa = 1/2 fitted, never derived. Its best current...

A Width-Chain Estimate of the MOND Acceleration Scale from MIGHTEE-HI COSMOS, with its Flux-Scale, Line-Width and Kernel Systematics

Version 1.0: the first deposited version (internal revision 1.2; not peer reviewed). Revision history: an undeposited first draft read the catalogue line widths as observed-frame and divided them by 1+z; the catalogue paper's own worked examples show they are rest-frame, which a...

Only the Outermost Bound System Carries the Phantom: Hierarchical Ownership in a Lambda-Tied MOND Law, Its Scorecard, and an Exactly Newtonian Wide-Binary Prediction for Gaia DR4

The programme's central relation ties the MOND acceleration scale to the vacuum, a0 = kappa c sqrt(G rho_Lambda), with kappa = 1/2 fitted, not derived. This note reports a principle that decides which systems the law acts on, the scorecard it earns, and the prediction it makes fo...

A Width-Chain Estimate of the MOND Acceleration Scale from MIGHTEE-HI COSMOS, with its Flux-Scale, Line-Width and Kernel Systematics

Version 1.0: the first deposited version (internal revision 1.2; not peer reviewed). Revision history: an undeposited first draft read the catalogue line widths as observed-frame and divided them by 1+z; the catalogue paper's own worked examples show they are rest-frame, which a...

What a Complete Mechanism for a Lambda-Tied MOND Law Would Have to Do: A Closure Map of Scoped No-Gos and a Reading of the Requirements

Version 1.1: wording corrections after an independent referee (CFG265: 1 CRITICAL, 3 MAJOR, 19 MINOR, 7 NIT); no result changes. The programme ties the MOND acceleration scale to the vacuum, a0 = kappa c sqrt(G rho_Lambda), with kappa = 1/2 fitted, never derived. Its best current...

Measuring the MOND Acceleration Scale at High Redshift: The Baryon-Calibration Wall

v1.3: corrects the Gaia DR4 paragraph. Version 1.2 called Arm A's floor (1.1614, alt 1.1917; nu_RAR kernel) and its pair counts those of 'the bare law'. With the framework's own P2 kernel the merged law gives 1.063-1.102 canonical (1.079-1.127 alt), 2.3-3.7 sigma from ownership a...

Observing Case: Does the Galactic Acceleration Scale Evolve? Deep-Regime Rotators at z ~ 2-2.6 (Version 2: corrected target ledger, separated rivals, honest odds)

VERSION 2 (2026-09-25) supersedes version 1. Version 1's candidate ledger carried values that contradict their own cited sources (largest: A68-HLS115 is at z = 1.5869 with M* = 8.1e9 Msun, not a z = 2.49 deep-regime candidate); it merged two rivals (the LambdaCDM-emergent rise wa...

The Clock-Host Candidate in One Page: What Stands, What Died, What Decides

A one-page statement of the standing relativistic candidate of the a0 = (1/2) c sqrt(G rho_Lambda) programme as of 2026-09-20: a single-metric khronometric clock hosting one screened MOND scalar (the AeST coupling without its dark sector), written out as a Lagrangian. What stands...

Does the MOND Acceleration Scale Evolve? A Pre-Registered Decisive Measurement: the Deep-MOND Tully-Fisher Zero Point of One Lensed Rotator at z ~ 2.5, with a Two-Stage JWST/ALMA Funnel

VERSION 3 (2026-09-18) supersedes version 2 of the same day: v2's PDF was the v1 build (a compile error dropped the figure) although its TeX carried the note; v3 carries the note and the figure in the PDF, with the figure file included. VERSION 2 NOTE (2026-09-18). The framework'...

The Decoupling Locus: a MOND Scale Derived from a Clock, and the Solar System Reduced to One Number

ERRATUM, version 2 (2026-09-18). The disformal matter coupling of Section 5 puts photons on the matter metric and gravitational waves on the Einstein metric; GW170817's photon-graviton arrival test excludes it: the delay along the NGC 4993 sightline is 1.8-2.3 yr against the obse...

A Clock That Must Run Fast: the Solar System as an Inequality on the Rate of Cosmic Time

ERRATUM, version 2 (2026-09-18). The disformal coupling this paper aligns puts photons on the matter metric and gravitational waves on the Einstein metric; GW170817's photon-graviton arrival test excludes it by 3-4e7 (delay 1.8-2.3 yr against 1.74 s; CK01, 5/5, both a0 footings,...

A Conserved Clock Rate, and the Board Run End to End

The solar system demands a clock running about 1.5e7 times proper time, a number nothing explained. We show it does not need explaining. The closure's two kinetic coefficients descend from a SINGLE logarithmic function P(X) = -(U/2) log(U - 2 d X) whose pole is a SPEED LIMIT, wit...

A Photocount Reading of the Interpolating Function, and a No-Go for Deriving Its Normalisation from a Clock

A companion paper removed the MOND acceleration scale as an independent parameter and found that 155 SPARC rotation curves then select, with nothing fitted, the member n = 2 of the family mu_n(Y) = 1 - (1+Y)^(-n), which is kappa = 1/2. This paper reports what happened when we tri...

A Conserved Clock Rate, and the Board Run End to End

The solar system demands a clock running about 1.5e7 times proper time, a number nothing explained. We show it does not need explaining. The closure's two kinetic coefficients descend from a SINGLE logarithmic function P(X) = -(U/2) log(U - 2 d X) whose pole is a SPEED LIMIT, wit...

A Parameter-Free Radial Acceleration Relation from the Dark-Energy Scale

We remove the MOND acceleration scale as an independent parameter. If the interpolating function's argument is the acceleration in units of the dark-energy acceleration s = c sqrt(G rho_Lambda) rather than in units of a_0, then a_0 is an OUTPUT and the coefficient kappa in a_0 =...

A Photocount Reading of the Interpolating Function, and a No-Go for Deriving Its Normalisation from a Clock

A companion paper removed the MOND acceleration scale as an independent parameter and found that 155 SPARC rotation curves then select, with nothing fitted, the member n = 2 of the family mu_n(Y) = 1 - (1+Y)^(-n), which is kappa = 1/2. This paper reports what happened when we tri...