Bounce cosmology · live research program
Was there a bounce before the Big Bang?
This is an open, falsifiable research program asking one question: can a nonsingular Big Bounce cosmology — a universe that contracted and rebounded rather than began at a singularity — beat the standard ΛCDM + inflation picture? We attack it from both ends: deriving where a bounce could leave a fingerprint, then mining tens of millions of archival survey sources to look for it.
Six papers, honest nulls, and quantified falsification windows — with the decisive test (SPHEREx, ~2028) already on the calendar. Everything here is public: the PDFs, the datasets, the models, and the code.
How every claim here gets vetted
Every result on this site has been through 151 adversarial review rounds — model families from five different labs told to refute each paper, plus independent external referees, with a separate integrity audit on the review process itself — and 80 closure waves fixing what those rounds found. The loop has caught real errors (an overlap-inflated significance, a mislabeled catalog tier) before any reader could. The complete record is public — most recent: 2026-07-15.
Submission-ready ETA
≈ 18 h
7/8 papers at the 2-clean-wave bar
median wave cadence ≈ 7.8 h
Two clocks. This ETA is the review-loop clock — time until each paper stops surfacing genuinely-new findings (2consecutive clean review waves). It assumes 0 new findings from here; a single genuinely-new finding on any paper resets that paper's streak and pushes the ETA out. Journal acceptance is a separate, external clock — it depends on human referees and takes months. This widget does not predict that. See the verdict trajectory →
How the six papers fit together
One program, two halves
The theory arm (P1A, P1B, P2) asks where a nonsingular Einstein–Cartan–Holst bounce could leave a falsifiable fingerprint, proves the bounce mechanism itself is invisible to telescopes, closes the enumerated dark-energy routes, and isolates the one surviving handle — a parameter-free matter-bounce non-Gaussianity SPHEREx can test. The data arm (P3, P4, P5) mines 45M+ archival sources for the parity- and anomaly-level signatures any bounce would have to imprint, and reports honest nulls with quantified falsification windows. Negative theory results narrowed the search space; the surveys then went looking exactly where the theory said to look.
The evidence
The six papers
A compact CQG Note deriving the minimal Einstein–Cartan–Holst axial contact interaction and the zero-spin canonical-scalar branch. It fixes conventions, separates coefficient-level statements from state-dependent observables, and provides a commit-pinned hard-cutoff NJL diagnostic. A subscription-backed exact-PDF reviewer returned ACCEPT with no tagged findings; human, release, and external-science gates remain.
Standalone P1B is restored alongside the retained P1U history. Its exact NaMaster bandpower-window validation recovers β=0.269° from a +0.270° injection (bias −0.001°) on an explicitly synthetic native-coordinate latitude window. v1B.0.108 also renders the unconditional N=100,000 prior-predictive method and complete 195-artifact provenance inventory. This is pipeline calibration, not a sky measurement; readiness remains capped at 56 with no v1B.0.108 or human ACCEPT claimed.
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. The observational forecasts are illustrative, not a completed detection claim.
Recovers 181 public DESI DR1 TARGETIDs from a frozen historical anomaly list, split transparently into 170 high-coordinate-consistency core associations and 11 lower-confidence positional associations; this is an archive-recovery product, not a purity, novelty, or detection claim.
Classifies 8.47M galaxies for spiral handedness with a rotation-equivariant ViT ensemble and finds a null real-space chirality dipole (+0.41σ, rank-p=0.31; A_dip < 6.8×10⁻³ at 95% UL) — the earlier −0.122σ subsample-mask null was withdrawn in v1.0.166 after a provenance audit.
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.
The two public survey catalogs behind the data-arm papers.
The trained detectors that produced the catalogs.
Every headline number is reproducible from committed scripts.
Go deeper
Explore the program
All six papers are drafted, internally peer-reviewed across multiple independent models, and have passed repeated adversarial review rounds with their numbers reproduced from committed code. The remaining step is the author's final sign-off and a coordinated arXiv submission — the science is in place; what's left is publication logistics.