{"compile":"2026-10-10","canonical":"https://aaronspradlin.grok.me/wiki/start-here","json":"https://aaronspradlin.grok.me/page.json?slug=start-here","license":"Source-available for noncommercial research and evaluation only. No commercial, product, platform, or service use without written permission.","scientific_breakthrough":false,"slug":"start-here","title":"Start here","dek":"Core concept: forced geometry from identities that cannot be erased — not a smuggled metric. What is Supported, what is a signal, what is stopped. Git frontier is v15.03. Gravity has not been found.","updated":"2026-10-01","status":"core","claim":null,"tags":["orientation","start","stack"],"related":["it-from-bit","why-these-gates","identity-lock","why-this-program","uqcf-gem-reader","aaron-spradlin","public-voice","september-2026-ladder","live-gates","two-stacks","causal-stack","falsification","genesis-pin","supported-four","compatibility-lab","emergent-gravity","for-researchers","claim-ledger"],"packages":[],"notes":[{"id":"wiki-public-2026-09-06","title":"Compiled wiki published on grok.me","date":"2026-09-06","xUrl":"https://x.com/aaronspradlin/status/2096453861347311661"},{"id":"protein-closeout-2026-09-19","title":"Protein-mechanism program CLOSED on current evidence","date":"2026-09-19","xUrl":"https://x.com/aaronspradlin/status/2101337128169034035"},{"id":"it-from-bit-2026-09-21","title":"It from bit, bind, and order","date":"2026-09-21","xUrl":"https://x.com/aaronspradlin/status/2102247482579374550"},{"id":"v1512-2026-09-13","title":"v15.12 pre-time-to-history demonstrator","date":"2026-09-13","xUrl":"https://x.com/aaronspradlin/status/2099245020394188808"},{"id":"v1241-2026-09-10","title":"v12.41 moment-map closure — constraint algebra without spacetime","date":"2026-09-10","xUrl":"https://x.com/aaronspradlin/status/2098145800949776410"},{"id":"wiki-announce-2026-09-07","title":"Public wiki announced on X","date":"2026-09-07","xUrl":"https://x.com/aaronspradlin/status/2097035989130846521"}],"claims":[],"text":"Who compiles this: identity lock. Why it exists: why this program. You will not find a finished gravity law, a solved folder, or a biography. X = archive. GitHub = evidence. Wiki = compile. Industry interviews are a different ledger: public voice.\n\nSkeptic — Supported four.\nCore concept — It from bit, bind, and order / forced geometry.\nLive board — Pillar 3 watch / september-2026-ladder.\nLabs in English — UQCF-GEM reader.\n\nStart from identities that cannot be erased — not spacetime, not a metric, not an inserted manifold — and ask what geometry-like structure, if any, is forced to appear so that one world is jointly recoverable. Pairs may look geometric; three-way recombination can produce an associator that will not reduce to pairs. That is forced geometry, not assumed geometry. Einstein is accepted as the physics of the slice. This wiki searches for signals of what gravity could be. It does not claim gravity has been found.\n\nEvery other program agrees information is fundamental — then smuggles in entropy, an area law, causal order, or a metric, and derives the rest. This ledger starts with nothing but identities that cannot be erased and rules for how they recombine. What survives is forced structure. Full page: /wiki/it-from-bit. 21 Sep field note: 2102247482579374550. Not Einstein. Not a STATUS gate.\n\nQuestion: structure from retained information, not an inserted manifold. Method: freeze, ship, attack, badge. Review: AI red-team, not oracle. Public claim: a coherent ledger, not a physics or math discovery. Gravity and folding stay candidates.\n\nStack A (June causal ladder) owns Astra → Pin → L1–L4 → V1698/V824 → Package 17. Stack B (Sep Git ladder) owns parent → fiber → supplied [P] → [g]. Combining them drops you from Restricted to Not claimed. Cardinality 5=5 is not a functor. Two-stacks is the only page they appear together.\n\nStatus\n\nWiki compile 2026-10-10. One spine: Start here → It from bit → Live gates → Supported four → Falsification. Main STATUS.md publishes v15.45 and keeps v15.03 as historical. The integration branch is still v16.55 and is not merged to main. The overlapping-guard tip 1e7cd09 records scoped C3 closeouts. Spare capacity is not reachable reserve, and that is not a general no-go. Einstein not closed. scientific_breakthrough: false.\n\nChain: retained graph → quantum-site carrier STOPPED. state-independent lift → noncentral P NO-GO. state + graph-site → P_f LAWFUL, NONUNIQUE. [A] → [P] EXACT COMPRESSION. [P] → X* → [g] CERTIFIED CONDITIONAL. Pillar 3 OPEN. The only “what is current” URL is GitHub STATUS.md.\n\nThe method is a meter. It classifies a frozen question and may return INVALID or UNRESOLVED. Those readings are not a pass, and they are not a source law. Frontier on this wiki remains STATUS.md at v15.03. Research through v16.55 is not current science. v16.55 certifies a bounded renewable-guard repair on the integration branch and does not prove a universal root repair. The overlapping-guard branch, tip 1e7cd09 on 10 Oct 2026, is also not on main. Scoped C3 closeouts say static spare capacity need not be reachable, even from a source that has safe local edits. That is not a general impossibility. Count reconstructions do not derive access. Broad C3 and native record origin stay open. None of this derives P, and a uniform barrier is not a no-go. The finite mathematics is Restricted. It does not close gravity.\n\nSupported four only\n\nV1698 — retained global atlas closure.\nV824 — accessibility-curvature, scalar/conformal sector only.\nW-state BKM — holonomy spectrum {−1,+1,+1}.\nThree-node Codazzi + genericity. Finite family, not all graphs.\n\nThese four are the only Supported harnesses. They are not Einstein’s equations. Skip Package 17 as a theorem.\n\nRestricted signals, last two weeks\n\n315 vs 311 — same pair curve, different global completions. Dimensions of a state family, not extra dimensions of space.\ng_★ — conditional protected-source coefficient. Not a gravity derivation.\nv12.41 — qubit moment-map closure, Δ_closure = 0 on 121 relational transforms. λ is not time.\nFake-geometry toys — V923 geometry-only 62.86%; five-history 5/5 visible vs 1/5 pinned. Geometry cannot self-validate in those packages.\n\nOpen / stopped\n\nPruning / continuum law — RATS sealed. QRSL irreducible (v13.23).\nRGCL — REQUIRES_NEW_AXIOM (v13.28). Free scale is not derived G.\nJ / graph-site — v14.04 intertwiner missing. v15.01 no parent source. v15.02 120 inequivalent bijections. v15.03 graph-site factorization not certified (lifts exist, not unique).\nPillar 3 / Einstein correspondence — OPEN.\n\nHow to read a badge\n\nSupported — reproduced in a named harness with a stated residual or statistic. Four of these, currently.\nRestricted — true inside an explicit domain: this family, this graph size, this sector.\nOpen — a derivation target. Not a result.\nNot claimed — the author has put it out of scope, or a 2025 voice the 2026 ledger does not adopt.\nCorrected — an earlier blanket claim was withdrawn. The walk-back sits next to the original.\n\nContinue\n\nIt from bit — core concept. Forced geometry. Do not smuggle a metric.\nLive gates — STATUS.md science only. If a gate is not there, it is not current on this wiki.\nResearch ladder — v15.12–v15.45 main / v15.46–v15.54 #57. v15.98–v16.55 not on main. 10 Oct tip is scoped C3, not a general no-go. Not STATUS.\nSupported four — the only Supported harnesses. Not Einstein.\nFalsification — kill rules, including treating the wiki freeze as the frontier.\nTwo stacks — June causal vs September representation. Do not glue them.\n\n2024–2025 Theory of Integration, the March 2025 TOE announcement, and the October 2025 Origin Law live on the superseded shelf. They are findable. They are not current. Do not treat ε*, the 3 Mar TOE announcement, or the 5 May complete-cosmology sentence as 2026 Supported.\n\nIdentity lock\nWhy this program\nIt from bit, bind, and order\nUQCF-GEM reader\nWhy these gates\nAaron Spradlin\nLive gates\nTwo stacks\nCausal stack\nFalsification\nGenesis Pin\nSupported four\nMachine cantos /llms.txt","howToCite":"Spradlin, A. (2026-10-10). Start here. Retained Atlas. https://aaronspradlin.grok.me/wiki/start-here. Keep claim badge: see page."}