Proposal
A bounded packet
A proposal names a possible construction, selector, witness, audit, or review target. It is not accepted physics by itself.
Physics deep dive / Phase 4D
Claim Gates
AEther Flow uses claim gates to keep proposals, audits, stress tests, completions, handoffs, freeze labels, and human-gated decisions inside their proper scope. The discipline is conservative: negative results are preserved without turning them into success or global rejection.
Claim lifecycle
Each state narrows what can be said.
A useful packet can still be provisional. A failed packet can still be valuable. Neither condition widens claim authority beyond the tracked source boundary.
Audit
A hidden-import screen
An audit checks whether a packet imports target-GR structure, role authority, generated-output authority, or hidden assumptions.
Stress
A refutation attempt
A stress test may expose fragility, nonuniqueness, missing primitives, or underdetermination. It does not reject the whole ontology.
Gate
A protected decision
Human-gated decisions such as Gate Chair approval or benchmark promotion require explicit protected authority, not validator success or public prose.
Negative-result discipline
Stopped, blocked, and frozen states remain scoped.
No-go records and obstruction records help the project avoid repeating weak routes. They do not prove the whole ontology false, and they do not secretly complete the derivation.
Scoped obstruction
Route-local evidence
A scoped obstruction says a specific route failed under stated assumptions and source data. It is narrower than a global no-go theorem.
Freeze label
Do not repeat casually
A freeze label preserves a repeated burden or blocked route so future work needs a new payload, redesign, audit, or gate action before reuse.
Blocked status
Not success
Blocked or stopped states preserve what remains missing. They should not be rewritten as completion, benchmark promotion, or hidden progress.
Validator pass
Operational evidence only
A validator can show a bounded transaction satisfied structural checks. It cannot prove g_eff, matter coupling, equations, or scientific truth.
Reader path
Read gates together with source authority and workflow.
Claim gates connect the physics track to the AI research-agent workflow: bounded jobs, role constraints, validators, completions, and handoffs can organize evidence while remaining separate from physics proof.
Back to physics trackReturn to the completed first version of the physics deep-dive page family.Source authority pageRead how website pages, generated explainers, registries, and tracked sources relate.AI research-agent systemRead the implemented AI track landing page for bounded work, role contracts, review, and source-first memory.Upstream workflow explainerGenerated noncanonical workflow explainer for bounded AgentJobs, roles, gates, and handoffs.
Source authority
What this page can and cannot establish.
This website page can explain the claim-control model. It cannot create a claim boundary, issue a Gate Chair verdict, promote a benchmark, reject the global ontology, change role authority, treat validator passes as scientific evidence, or supersede tracked source files.