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Source ontology
Name the source primitives and rules that any later recovery would have to use.
- Vocabulary is not proof.
- Registered sources outrank website summary.
Physics Research / Roadmap
Derivation Roadmap
The roadmap names the source-side burdens that would be required for a stronger GR derivation claim. It does not solve those burdens.
The Æther Flow Project is a two-part research program about foundational physics and the governed, human-accountable AI research system used to organize and test that work. This Derivation Roadmap page explains the physics track's open first-principles problem: how ordinary general relativity might be recovered from proposed Æther / Æther-Flow source structure without inserting the target metric or benchmark behavior by hand.
It arranges the necessary obligations—source ontology, localization and response, an effective metric, universal matter coupling, Einstein equations, and protected benchmark review—so readers can see which steps depend on which others. The roadmap and Distance-to-GR ledger record bounded statuses and evidence; they do not supply a completed derivation, an Einstein-equation result, or benchmark promotion. The page helps a general reader distinguish a map of remaining work from proof that the work has been completed.
Static diagram
Read the derivation roadmap as a burden ladder.
The ladder names the open sequence from ontology primitives through metric behavior, matter coupling, equations, and benchmark promotion without discharging those burdens.
Burden roadmap
A roadmap is useful because it refuses shortcuts.
Each step is a named obligation. A public page can explain the chain, but it cannot replace payload, validation, and source-authority review.
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Localization and response
Separate observer localization, response tokens, and bridge attempts before metric language is used.
- Rows can be accepted, blocked, frozen, or gated.
- A row status does not discharge downstream rows.
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Effective metric burden
Recovering effective Lorentzian metric behavior remains a distinct construction burden.
- No g_eff promotion here.
- No MetricData adoption from website copy.
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Matter, equations, and promotion
Matter coupling, Einstein equations, finite-toy validation, and benchmark promotion stay separate gates.
- No matter-coupling claim.
- No Einstein-equation derivation claim.
Claim status
Downstream burdens remain downstream.
The roadmap prevents one visible status row from becoming the whole derivation. The page can name the next obligations, not erase them.
| Burden | Would need | Current page boundary |
|---|---|---|
| g_eff | A source-side metric construction with explicit status and acceptance evidence. | The page names the burden but does not construct or adopt it. |
| Matter coupling | A universal same-metric matter behavior argument from source-side structure. | Ordinary matter coupling remains benchmark-level, not derived here. |
| Einstein equations | A source-side dynamics, action, variation principle, or equivalent theorem. | No theorem is supplied by this route or by validator PASS. |
| Benchmark promotion | Upstream burden discharge plus protected human-gated approval. | Public route clarity cannot issue benchmark promotion. |
Source basis
Burden records constrain the public story.
The page stays useful only if it preserves the difference between orientation, control evidence, and mathematical derivation.
| Source area | Used here for | Authority boundary |
|---|---|---|
| GR derivation roadmap explainer | Reader-facing roadmap and safe/unsafe summaries. | Generated noncanonical surface. |
| Derivation burden map | Milestone chain and future job contract. | Control note, not completed derivation. |
| Distance-to-GR ledger | Persistent burden-row status vocabulary. | Ledger rows are status evidence, not proof shortcuts. |
| Claim-boundary registry | Forbidden derivation, metric, matter-coupling, and promotion claims. | Registry constraints preserve weaker public language. |