Observable scale
Ordinary GR behavior
Under the current benchmark framing, observable-scale physics remains ordinary general relativity rather than a claimed empirical deviation from it.
Physics deep dive / Phase 4B
Exact-GR Benchmark Boundary
AEther Flow uses exact general relativity as a conservative public benchmark. At observable scale, the current benchmark framing keeps behavior ordinary GR. That is not the same as a first-principles derivation from AEther / AEther-flow substrate structure.
Plain-language boundary
The benchmark keeps public physics ordinary at observable scale.
The conservative reader rule is simple: exact GR is the operative benchmark, and no website page should transform that benchmark into a claimed source-side derivation.
Metric
One operative Lorentzian metric
The benchmark keeps the reader inside the standard metric description. Public pages must not claim a new effective metric has been derived from substrate data.
Matter
Universal matter coupling
The conservative benchmark preserves ordinary same-metric matter behavior. A derivation of universal coupling remains part of the open source-side burden.
Causality
Standard causal structure
The benchmark keeps standard relativistic causal structure at observable scale. It does not authorize a public claim that substrate equations have forced that structure.
Claim states
Adoption, compatibility, derivation, and promotion are different claims.
The source materials keep these states separate. Compatibility with an ontology is weaker than derivation, and derivation is weaker than benchmark promotion by the appropriate upstream authority.
Adoption
What is taken over operationally
Adoption means the project uses exact GR as the current observable-scale benchmark for the public physics track.
Compatibility
What can sit beside the ontology
Compatibility means AEther / AEther-flow language is held beside the benchmark without claiming a completed source-side recovery.
Derivation
What remains open
Derivation would require source-side construction of metric behavior, matter coupling, equations, and closure without importing the target result by hand.
Promotion
What stays gated
Benchmark promotion depends on upstream authority and human gates. Generated website prose cannot issue a Gate Chair decision.
Reader path
Use this page as a boundary map, not as proof.
Stronger physics claims require upstream source authority, registered TeX, claim-boundary records, and gated review where the source system requires it.
Back to physics trackReturn to the track-level map for ontology, benchmark, open derivation, and obstruction boundaries.Source authority pageRead how the website separates reader-facing explanation from upstream scientific authority.Upstream benchmark explainerGenerated noncanonical source evidence for the public benchmark-boundary explanation.
Source authority
What this page can and cannot establish.
This website page can explain the benchmark boundary. It cannot prove GR from AEther-flow, derive universal matter coupling, construct `g_eff`, issue benchmark promotion, announce empirical deviation, or turn generated documentation into scientific authority.