Bounce cosmology · live research program
Was there a bounce before the Big Bang?
This is an open research program testing what a nonsingular Big Bounce cosmology can actually predict and what archival survey data can independently establish. The theory, spectral-anomaly, and galaxy-chirality programs share tools and motivation, but the survey catalogs are not presented as detections of a bounce.
Three research programs connect theory, discovery, and observation. Their lead results, candidate packages, data, and review evidence are public — but a finished package is not automatically a flagship paper.
Research programs
Three questions, three lead results
The portfolio is organized around scientific questions, not a fixed paper count. Supporting notes, software, and exploratory companions remain available with their evidence, but do not displace the lead result.
Primary theory result with a boundary Note and reusable research software.
Bounce theory
Question: Does matter-dominated contraction produce a distinctive, reproducible primordial non-Gaussian amplitude?
Current result: P2 rederives the stated matter-contraction amplitude f_NL^local = −35/16; its survey mapping remains conditional, not a detection forecast.
Boundary: Nonlinear transmission through a specified bounce completion and survey-native covariance remain open scientific conditions.
Flagship rebuild active. Current P3 is technical provenance support, not the discovery paper.
DESI anomaly discovery
Question: What unusual spectra emerge from a full-scale DESI anomaly search, and which candidates survive scientific validation?
Current result: A discovery-focused flagship is being rebuilt around the preserved 2,145-row filtered slice and 1,127 SIMBAD/NED-unmatched candidate taxonomy.
Boundary: The enhanced parent catalog, exact model, score lineage, and selection reproducibility must be restored or regenerated before a flagship manuscript is drafted.
Primary catalog result with a distinct standalone AJ environment companion.
Galaxy chirality
Question: Is there a large-scale observed-label chirality dipole in the released DESI imaging catalog?
Current result: P4 releases the catalog and reports a declared primary observed-label dipole consistent with zero.
Boundary: The result is not a physical primordial-parity constraint; morphology transfer and systematics remain open.
Evidence library
Papers, software, and technical records
These candidate packages preserve their PDFs, artifacts, and version-specific review evidence. Their readiness is evidence status, not a claim that every package is science-complete or awaiting endorsement alone.
A compact CQG Note deriving the minimal Einstein–Cartan–Holst axial contact interaction and the zero-spin canonical-scalar branch. v1A.0.127 adds the mandatory declarations and availability section; earlier exact-PDF findings were truth-audited to zero genuinely-new-real. Final-hash bounded confirmation and Houston's own review remain distinct open gates.
P1B is a focused software metapaper around namaster-proof 0.1.7. Its evidence shows the workspace is deterministically regenerable; v2B.0.16 makes the manuscript-versus-software version boundary legible. The archival DOIs are published, while final-hash confirmation, correspondence metadata, and human review remain separate gates.
Derives f_NL = −35/16 for the stated matter-contraction background and cubic action, then maps that result conditionally to published and in-house large-scale-structure sensitivity estimates. v1.7.130 adds the APS AI-use disclosure and a drift-proof deposit reference; its final-hash bounded confirmation and Houston review remain separate from the earlier evidence.
Publishes 181 public DESI DR1 TARGETID associations for the anomaly program's candidate list, split transparently into 170 high-coordinate-consistency core associations and 11 lower-confidence positional associations. v3.2.0-r17 binds the viewer captures, documents the exact 2,468-row positional-parent denominator, publishes the two-pass deduplication order, and content-hashes every resumable scan input — deterministic public-identifier and join/checkpoint machinery enabling auditable follow-up. This is a public-identifier and provenance data release, not a detection claim.
Classifies 8.47M galaxies. The strict safe-sample observed-label statistic remains null-consistent (z=0.63465, p=0.23768), and the v1.0.268 CE-composition audit retained the GZ1-core realization while documenting the honest-negative CE-inclusive retrain. v1.0.274 expands Expected Calibration Error (ECE) at first use without changing the science; exact confirmation and Houston review remain separate gates.
On the released DESIVAST GALZONE parent, the focal exploratory analysis detects no void/non-void difference in classifier-labelled CW fraction; this bounded non-detection does not establish physical environment independence.
What’s new here
Top contributions
A short list of the program's most novel results. Each is scored on a four-tier scale; our self-claim ceiling is N3 (first-of-kind). The full accounting — prior work, equations, and verification links — lives on the contributions page.
Open science
Papers, data & models
Every paper compiles to a versioned PDF, served from the papers index.
Public catalog roots: the anomaly catalog is historical provenance pending a clean rebuild; the chirality catalog supports P4 and P5.
Released checkpoint roots: BigAE is historical provenance; the chirality model supports observed-label reproducibility within declared limits.
Every headline number is reproducible from committed scripts.
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Explore the program
Evidence and review state remain useful, but publication follows the scientific architecture: P2 and P4 are lead results; P1A and P1B are specialist outputs; P5 is a standalone companion; P3 is an integrated supporting data release; and the anomaly flagship is a parallel rebuild.