Research
Three questions, three lead results
Started from one question — was the Big Bang the beginning? The portfolio is organized by scientific question, not a fixed paper count. Track A is the flagship line testing bounce vs. inflation; Track B is one closed theory Note; Track C is DESI data products tested against a specific physical prediction, on-vision per the lab's guiding question.
Track A — Bounce vs. inflation
Does a nonsingular matter-bounce produce a distinctive, reproducible, and observationally testable primordial non-Gaussian signature that beats inflation-from-a-singularity as the origin of structure?
The exact matter-contraction amplitude f_NL^local = −35/16 is confirmed by an independent from-scratch in-in computation, which also locates Cai et al. (2009)'s published −35/8 as a uniform missing factor of 2, not a competing result. Transmitted through an explicit nonsingular bounce (the bounce's own cubic term, Δf_NL^bounce = −(5/24)ρ_B), the amplitude becomes f_NL^after ∈ [−0.65, −0.50] across three background choices — the number a survey would actually see.
derivedReadiness: 75% · v3M.0.24
Track B — The ECH Note
What does minimal Einstein–Cartan–Holst spin-torsion gravity do for the bounce, and what can it not do for dark energy?
The derived axial spin-spin contact term is identified with Popławski's torsion-bounce repulsion mechanism — the positive result. The same algebraic elimination that produces it closes four candidate dark-energy routes — the negative result, stated in the same Note rather than hedged around.
derivedReadiness: 95% · v1N.0.5
Track C — DESI data products
What do DESI's public galaxy and spectral data show when tested directly against the rotating-black-hole-universe spin-axis prediction and scanned for early-universe anomalies — and what does that say about bounce vs. inflation?
The largest test to date of Popławski's galaxy-spin-axis prediction, run on the 887,472-galaxy high-confidence subset of the 8.47M-galaxy DESI parent catalog with a void-environment cross-check, is a null: the catalog's own sensitivity floor excludes alignment fractions η > 0.98% at ≥95% coverage — a factor of 2–20× below the amplitudes reported in the literature it tests.
nullReadiness: 95% · v4P.0.7
Contributions
What's novel here
Every result the lab claims as its own — what kind of contribution it is, and how novel, ranked on a four-tier scale. Self-claim ceiling is N3 (first-of-kind); N4 (paradigm-shifting) is reserved for outside arbiters and never self-claimed.