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Gravity in Recognition Science: Results, Consistency Tests, and Open Problems — September 2026

This dated research-program report connects a weak-field lattice graviton reconstruction, horizon-record entropy and gravitational normalization, and a shared classical matter–gauge–geometry action. It preserves constructive results, corrections, consistency tests and open physic...

A Compact Gauss Field with a Native Clock: Ground Energy and Planar Strain

A compact square couples the complete eight-level clocks to unrestricted integer electric flux. At specified couplings, positivity, a complete finite eigenvalue count and an infinite-tail estimate enclose the normal ground energy near 1.6373452821 and give an excitation gap above...

Lossless Retention and the Physical Meaning of a Comparison

What must persist when a physical system retains a comparison? Exact recovery of its inputs, preservation of numerical order, and conservation of energy impose different conditions. We exhibit a reversible count update with a lossless scalar reading whose order reverses, and give...

Gravity Tests and Gravitational Collapse: What Three Preprints of 14 September 2026 Establish

This technical review examines three gravity preprints submitted on 14 September 2026: a lunar laser ranging test of equal free fall, a charged-binary inspiral waveform analysis, and a theorem on nonspherical perturbations of self-similar naked-singularity backgrounds. It disting...

Recognition Structure from Responses and Records

Which physical structure must a description preserve if it preserves what participants can achieve? Calibrated responses reconstruct a directed recognition ledger, and answerable interruptions require retained records. For a finite quantum carrier, preserving a finite family of p...

Economics from Shared Reality and Distinct Persons

In Recognition Science, physical and ethical descriptions concern one underlying reality. Actions change shared relations; their burdens and consequences remain attributable to distinct persons. Economics develops how those persons organize production, storage, exchange and use w...

Gravity Tests and Gravitational Collapse: What Three Preprints of 14 September 2026 Establish

This technical review examines three gravity preprints submitted on 14 September 2026: a lunar laser ranging test of equal free fall, a charged-binary inspiral waveform analysis, and a theorem on nonspherical perturbations of self-similar naked-singularity backgrounds. It disting...

Lossless Retention and the Physical Meaning of a Comparison

What must persist when a physical system retains a comparison? Exact recovery of its inputs, preservation of numerical order, and conservation of energy impose different conditions. We exhibit a reversible count update with a lossless scalar reading whose order reverses, and give...

Gaussian charge fluctuations of the eight-state native clock

We derive the Gaussian charge-fluctuation limit of independent copies of the complete eight-state native clock in its product ground state, with the native occupation operator and additive clock dynamics. The limiting charge field has variance 1/4, four positive-frequency modes a...

Gravity in Recognition Science: Results, Consistency Tests, and Open Problems — September 2026

This dated research-program report connects a weak-field lattice graviton reconstruction, horizon-record entropy and gravitational normalization, and a shared classical matter–gauge–geometry action. It preserves constructive results, corrections, consistency tests and open physic...

Minimal Hilbert completion of retained recognition histories

This research note constructs the unique minimal Hilbert completion of all finite retained recognition histories, with each state identified with its recorded successor. It proves convergence of finite-depth approximations and transports finite-time reads while preserving native...

A Compact Gauss Field with a Native Clock: Ground Energy and Planar Strain

A compact square couples the complete eight-level clocks to unrestricted integer electric flux. At specified couplings, positivity, a complete finite eigenvalue count and an infinite-tail estimate enclose the normal ground energy near 1.6373452821 and give an excitation gap above...

Complete 64-state quantum comparison and retained field evolution

Two contacts can agree as a comparison while changing the systems that carry them. For an explicit pair of eight-state systems, we derive a comparison identity on all 64 states: its squared difference depends only on the relative field phase. We construct a unitary event that ret...

Source-Moment Constraints on Lattice Matter–Field Dynamics

Can the interaction between matter and light be determined before fitting an atomic energy? In a specified lattice contact family, prepared energy measurements determine the contact fractions and, once a frequency ratio fixes the field shape, all three positive coupling ratios. R...

Complete 64-state quantum comparison and retained field evolution

Two contacts can agree as a comparison while changing the systems that carry them. For an explicit pair of eight-state systems, we derive a comparison identity on all 64 states: its squared difference depends only on the relative field phase. We construct a unitary event that ret...

Source-Moment Constraints on Lattice Matter–Field Dynamics

Can the interaction between matter and light be determined before fitting an atomic energy? In a specified lattice contact family, prepared energy measurements determine the contact fractions and, once a frequency ratio fixes the field shape, all three positive coupling ratios. R...