Physics deep dive / PG-004

Gate Chair And Human-Gated Decisions

Some scientific decisions are deliberately protected. Gate Chair authority is the human-gated path for promotion, closure, or suspension decisions after required evidence exists; readiness signals do not make the decision themselves.

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Visual orientation only: operational evidence can prepare a human gate, but it does not issue the protected decision.

Authority stack

A protected verdict requires more than a ready packet.

The Gate Chair role is designed for protected scientific decisions. It may promote claims only under human-gated status, and the role contract is paused without explicit tracked approval.

Role

Gate Chair is human-gated

The role is defined for protected promotion, closure, or suspension decisions, but execution and promotion require explicit tracked approval.

Readiness

Prepared is not decided

A selector, handoff, or claim-boundary row can prepare a gate context. It does not issue the protected verdict.

Validation

PASS is operational

Validators can check records, receipts, and boundary preservation. They cannot prove physics or promote a claim.

Publication

The website explains only

This page can make the authority model readable. It cannot become source authority or approve a Gate Chair action.

Validator and routing limits

Several surfaces can record evidence; none can silently promote it.

The public failure mode is claim laundering: reading an operational receipt, registry row, or next-action note as if it were a protected scientific decision.

Cannot decide

Validators cannot decide

Validator success cannot adopt source law, prove a theorem, authorize MetricData(E), change g_eff scope, or promote downstream GR claims.

Cannot decide

Handoffs cannot decide

A handoff records status and next action. The next action is not already executed, even when it names a gate or future packet.

Cannot decide

Role rows cannot decide

A role registry row helps inspect default authority. The live transaction still needs explicit tracked gate approval.

Cannot decide

Public pages cannot decide

Generated or website pages orient readers. They do not supersede source records, registries, role contracts, or human-gated decisions.

Current handoff example

The latest inspected handoff preserves blocked claims.

The current source-state example is bounded: Gate Chair accepted the recovery-bridge candidate only as scoped source-extension evidence/precondition. That is a protected evidence-status decision, not coupling-law adoption, matter-coupling derivation, benchmark promotion, or completed derivation.

Preserved boundary