Welcome — start here, and where to jump in

[harryd-b]

This repo is the closed, honestly-audited record of a geometry-first physics program. It failed at a specific, identifiable place — and that's the point: the method, and the theorems that survive regardless, are what's offered for use. Collaboration is genuinely welcome.

If you're new, read in this order:

1. README.md — what this is and what stands vs. what doesn't
2. status/STATUS-plain-english-2026-07-17.md — the program in ordinary language
3. core/CORE-geometry-first-v7.md — the authoritative core document

The house rules (please read before posting): every claim is tagged [proved]/[established]/[conjecture]/[interpretation]/[fitted]; predictions are pre-registered with kill conditions; negative results are stated, not buried; no fabricated numbers. Full details in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Where the live work is — the open-problem ledger notes/QUESTIONS-2026-07-19.md lists each open question, who could answer it, and what dies if the answer is wrong. The most valuable contributions right now:

• Mathematicians: the DTAB d-invariant results (data/, scripts/dtab*_calc.py) are standalone and checkable in an afternoon — independent verification or extension is very welcome.
• Physicists: attacks on the join / dictionary gap, or on the live dark-energy commitment (w₀, wₐ) = (−1, 0).
• Anyone: referee-style critique. Four red-team campaigns are preserved in reviews/; that spirit continues.

Introduce yourself below, or open an Issue if you have a specific claim to make. Attack ideas, not people — that's the whole code of conduct.