JONATHAN CHARLES DOWNES

The Born Rule from Counting

The Geometric Block Universe is a single completed geometric structure - a compact curved space carrying fields - in which every history compatible with the laws is present, together with the records that observers hold within it. Nothing in the block evolves. What an observer ca...

The Born Rule from Counting

The Geometric Block Universe is a single completed geometric structure - a compact curved space carrying fields - in which every history compatible with the laws is present, together with the records that observers hold within it. Nothing in the block evolves. What an observer ca...

Cubic Unification Without Gauge Unification: Band-Edge Capacity, Peirce-Heat Reconstruction, and a Zero-Intersection Gauge Obstruction

The result is not a conventional grand unified theory. In ordinary GUT model building, a larger symmetry that is said to be 'broken', incomplete, or unable to reproduce the observed low-energy theory is usually treated as a model-building problem to be repaired by a different bre...

Cubic Unification Without Gauge Unification: Band-Edge Capacity, Peirce-Heat Reconstruction, and a Zero-Intersection Gauge Obstruction

The result is not a conventional grand unified theory. In ordinary GUT model building, a larger symmetry that is said to be 'broken', incomplete, or unable to reproduce the observed low-energy theory is usually treated as a model-building problem to be repaired by a different bre...

Predictive Codimension for Fermion Masses and Mixings: Calibration Gates and a Pre-Registered Programme for the JUNO/DUNE Era

The flavour-model literature contains hundreds of constructions claiming predictions for fermion mass ratios, mixing angles and phases, and no accounting standard for how many of those predictions survive after each construction’s adjustable structure — texture zeros, group and r...

Gauge Unification Under Audit- Research Corpus, August 2026 (manuscript versions v0.1–v0.8, predeclared criteria, computational protocols and research log)

The complete version trail, predeclared criteria, computational protocols andresearch log of an audit programme on the evidential status of gauge-couplingunification, developed under a predeclaration discipline: verdict criteriafrozen before tests, failures and corrections retain...

Flavour as a Boundary Test of Geometric Reconstruction Homogeneous Family Carriers, Majorana Backreaction, and Topological Zero Modes in the Geometric Block Universe

The Geometric Block Universe (GBU) programme seeks to reconstruct quantum probability, relational time, gauge–Higgs structure and gravitational dynamics from one constrained geometric ontology. This volume asks whether the same discipline can derive three-family fermion hierarchi...

Gravity from Block Consistency: Constraint Closure, the Einstein Limit, and the Global Volume–Momentum Pair

The Geometric Block Universe has, in its first six volumes, reconstructed a canonical probability measure, a finite gauge–Higgs representation skeleton, persistent records, and relational time from one geometric ontology. This volume subjects that ontology to its most dangerous t...

Standard-Model Flavour as a Typical Draw: Hierarchies, Mixing and CP Violation from a Record-Localised Overlap Measure

We test the hypothesis that the flavour parameters of the Standard Model are not selected by any dynamical mechanism but are a typical draw from a canonical probability measure on Yukawa overlap data. The measure is not fitted: Yukawa matrices are overlap integrals of generation...

Standard-Model Flavour as a Typical Draw: Hierarchies, Mixing and CP Violation from a Record-Localised Overlap Measure

We test the hypothesis that the flavour parameters of the Standard Model are not selected by any dynamical mechanism but are a typical draw from a canonical probability measure on Yukawa overlap data. The measure is not fitted: Yukawa matrices are overlap integrals of generation...