{"compile":"2026-10-10","canonical":"https://aaronspradlin.grok.me/wiki/research-ladder","json":"https://aaronspradlin.grok.me/page.json?slug=research-ladder","license":"Source-available for noncommercial research and evaluation only. No commercial, product, platform, or service use without written permission.","scientific_breakthrough":false,"slug":"research-ladder","title":"Research ladder v15.12–v15.45 (main) / v15.46–v15.54 (#57)","dek":"Three clocks. Main STATUS publishes v15.44/v15.45 and keeps the v15.03 obstruction. v15.98–v16.55 are research branches, not merged to main. The 10 Oct overlapping-guard tip is scoped C3, not a general no-go and not numbered v16. Not a source. Not Einstein.","updated":"2026-10-01","status":"method","claim":"restricted","tags":["v15.45","v15.54","ladder"],"related":["v1598-line","v1578-line","v1545-factorization","v1577-baseline","live-gates","falsification"],"packages":[{"id":"uqcf-gem-v13","name":"ResearchHistory/UQCF-GEM (v13–v14)","path":"ResearchHistory/UQCF-GEM","status":"restricted"}],"notes":[{"id":"v1543-2026-09-21","title":"v15.43 canonical response curvature nonzero","date":"2026-09-21","xUrl":"https://x.com/aaronspradlin/status/2102247482579374550"}],"claims":[],"text":"1) Main STATUS.md is a publication note for v15.44 and v15.45. It does not erase the v15.03 obstruction; that file is kept as HISTORICAL_STATUS_v15.03.md. Source correspondence NOT_EVALUATED. Pillar 3 OPEN. 2) v15.75 through v15.97 are research-branch publications. None is merged. v15.78–v15.97 is one line of separate verdicts, including scientific NOs. v15.88 applies a 2003 entanglement-breaking theorem; it does not derive quantum mechanics. v15.95 holonomy is a one-axis tangent at fixed support, not Einstein. Branches v15.56–v15.74 are not adopted here. scientific_breakthrough: false.\n\nRetained records can support a curvature-like operator (v15.45, main). Ordinary state perturbation cannot move the exterior world if A_G is frozen. The retained description O does not uniquely fix a deeper realization τ (v15.46–53, #57). v15.54 asks whether that gap survives a frozen classical comparator; independent verifier GREEN is necessary but not the final certificate. v15.55 ran on its research branch. RESULTS.json says RESPONSE_NONUNIQUE: seven coefficients, branch-swap rank 3, composition and naturality add no further rank, four degrees of freedom survive. The next missing object is a first-principles selector or a richer defect structure. That is not a unique source. v16.36 does not supply one. A unit barrier bound does not either, and it also does not prove that the retained structure cannot contribute.\n\nv15.45 factorization\nv15.44 interpretation\nv15.43\nObstruction line\nv15.78–v15.97 line\nv15.77 active baseline\nv15.76 two verdicts\nv15.75 affine null\nv15.55 proposed\nLive gates (STATUS)\nPR #58 (merged)\nPR #57 (unmerged)","howToCite":"Spradlin, A. (2026-10-10). Research ladder v15.12–v15.45 (main) / v15.46–v15.54 (#57). Retained Atlas. https://aaronspradlin.grok.me/wiki/research-ladder. Keep claim badge: restricted."}