A Finite-QEC Substrate Program

The shortest map of the current canon. Particle physics and cosmology are modelled as consequences of a quantum-error-correcting register geometry rather than fields on an assumed continuum: an eight-bit local code, its crystallisation into a register-bearing cubic phase, and a finite service ledger for correction events. It states what is derived, computed, conditional and retired. The strongest themes: Standard-Model-like matter from the finite code; the 28 = 2×14 service clock; a proton-primary route in which the proton mass fixes the chiral scale and the framework predicts G, M_P and H₀; and the scalar-clock route to (n_s, A_s) = (27/28, (3/4)α₀⁴). Standing falsifiers include a SH0ES-side resolution of the Hubble tension.

States the foundational objects and audit methodology. The physics is a finite register system whose ordered crystalline phase supplies the visible substrate and whose correction, strain and boundary ledgers determine which quantities become observables. The eight-bit cell is no longer assumed: under explicit stable-record hypotheses the unique minimal cell is the self-dual doubly-even [8,4,4] code, and the bare service rate α₀ = 1/137 is derived from the record-pair alphabet (Sym²(16) = 136 plus the idle channel). It introduces the 28 = 2×14 service clock, and the rules grading every claim as locked, computed, conditional, retired or open. A coefficient that cannot name its carrier, event unit, scheduler and observable map is not canon.

The matter-sector companion: the finite-code results that produce Standard-Model-like bookkeeping, the gauge results that survive audit, and the spectroscopy that remains load-bearing. The strongest results are exact finite identities: charge bookkeeping, anomaly cancellation, the separation of spatial, colour, generation and repair-axis roles, and the chiral charge-cube identity ∑Q_L³ = −2/9. The continuum results are more mixed but sharpened: the mirror-gapping problem reduces to ordinary SU(3) confinement; the electroweak scale is a ~10% radiative prediction v/M_P = α₀⁸/√λ; the W/Z sector is a pole-precision map; and the neutrino texture gives θ23 ≈ 45.9°. Mass-ratio numerology is demoted unless the observable map is unique.

States the current gravity and horizon canon, presented proton-primary: the measured proton mass fixes Λ_P = m_p/(2√2), and the horizon accounting chain predicts G, M_P and H₀. Two upgrades: an explicit service current with Ryu–Takayanagi reasoning gives the linearised Einstein source at continuum-Jacobson grade, and the hierarchy coefficient Z_G = 4α₀²N_lock lands M_P at +0.016%. The Bekenstein severing factor is C = 55/8, the near-horizon spectrum is exactly thermal so the flux is the standard Hawking coefficient, and fast scrambling is forbidden by finite-range locality. Falsifiers: G must match CODATA at 22 ppm, H₀ = 67.27 dies with a SH0ES-side resolution of the Hubble tension, and Ω_Λ = 12π/55 stands +0.1σ from Planck.

States the current dark-sector canon. The main cleanup is categorical: the dark sector is not one hidden particle gas, one entropy pressure or one defect network but three separated carriers. A boot-frozen K04 debris mechanism leaves gauge-blind wall defects that gravitate but are pinned, a durable relic rather than the mobile halo. An R4/MOND mechanism lets scheduler-clocked line records produce the AQUAL action and the baryonic Tully–Fisher relation. And the mobile, pressureless CMB and halo budget is carried by a conserved R4 zero-mode reservoir with the 17.7 keV sterile-neutrino branch. Each branch carries a kill condition, from the Tully–Fisher normalisation to cluster-scale lensing offsets that separate pinned from collisionless debris.

States the cosmology-side canon with stricter labels than its historical papers, since dark energy, horizon thermodynamics and inflation were the main source of earlier overclaims. The late equation of state reduces to service-instrument theorems plus a homogeneous lift, w(a) = −1 + a/28, with phantom behaviour excluded. The inflationary tilt has a conditional scalar-clock route to n_s = 27/28 and the amplitude the candidate A_s = (3/4)α₀⁴. The cosmological constant splits into the historical horizon relation and an active-demux computation landing at ρ_Λ ≈ 1.0019 ρ_obs. A pressureless R4 zero-mode reservoir now supplies the cold-dark-matter budget and matches the acoustic peak heights. A sharper programme, not a closed one.

Special and general relativity recovered as emergent properties of the finite-QEC substrate. Special relativity is the universal reversible propagation clock: c is one lattice step per service tick, and internal observers built from the same clock infer Lorentz symmetry despite a preferred microscopic update order. General relativity is the coarse-grained covariance of that clock under strain and record load: the metric perturbation is the strain field, and the linearised Bianchi identity and the strain-ledger conservation become one statement, making G_μν = 8πG T_μν consistent rather than imposed. The four horizon objects are one register-syndrome read four ways. Three steps rest on flagged standard imports.

A deep-dive companion on the horizon as a finite quantum-error-correcting record governed by one object, the three-cube coboundary δ. One δ controls the boundary strain record, the firewall isometry and the single blind degree of freedom, though the Hawking degeneracies need an independent monogamy ingredient. The Bekenstein area law in substrate units is equivalent to a records rate: a horizon node carries ~10³⁸ nats while a cell holds at most 5.5, so entropy cannot be stored and must flow, at a rate fixed by C = 55/8. The absolute flux equals the Hawking coefficient via the near-horizon Bogoliubov spectrum, and Ω_Λ = 12π/55 = 0.6854 is predicted α-free. A bandwidth reading and a ringdown-echo claim are withdrawn; fast scrambling is forbidden.

A consolidated, self-contained account of what dark matter could be in the substrate: not a new particle but crystallisation debris, defects left when the lattice ordered too quickly to heal. Current canon narrows it to a pinned, distinctive component and falsification target, not the dominant mobile dark matter. Taxonomy: a defect is permanently locked only if it winds the system, so the smallest indestructible object is a string, not a point particle. Mobility: locked objects are extended and frozen, not a collisionless gas. Energy scale: string and wall tensions are computed exactly. Abundance: a Kibble–Zurek picture gives ρ_dark ∼ (4/7) σ_wall/ξ(R) with the 4/7 exact. Open: the cooling law and the unit conversion.

A more accessible account

Reads the matter–antimatter asymmetry off the code itself. No standard mechanism derives η ≈ 6×10⁻¹⁰ from first principles; here the magnitude follows from one parameter-free assumption: the early universe is the self-dual [8,4,4] Hamming code, whose boot-time QEC pruning is the origin of the photon bath. The asymmetry is an error rate, not a tuned initial excess: almost all matter and antimatter are corrected back into photons, and the surviving baryon number is the residue of undetected logical faults. The minimum-weight undetectable fault has the code distance d = 4, giving α₀⁴, and a colour-singlet selection over 14 weight-4 channels gives 3/14, so η = (3/14)α₀⁴ = 6.08×10⁻¹⁰, a 0.9σ match to Planck. The sign remains a geometric convention.