v6-8

v6-8: an age of the universe from the waves alone (13.5 Gyr, 13.2-14.0; spectrum peak + growth + lensing amplitude, inputs verified) with the storm-clock prior art (Munk, Barber & Ursell; Aubourg, Philcox, chronometers); timeline of layers in time and space (Table 2); acoustic tests of the rings (refraction after Baumann 2019, shadow zone, second ringing); pre-registered echo search in BOSS/eBOSS: no second ringing, limits 1-6%, and a 1% ripple at twice the BAO frequency recorded as a 2-sigma hint; symbolic-regression formulae for the contact toy and the exact observer-offset density; decay law of the cascade (must be collisional); extremes from the spectrum; storm, swell and hurricanes in the epilogue; wave-systems, 3-D and shell spectrum figures.

v6-7

v6-7: hypocentre inversion (direction (270,-22); distance unconstrained; flatness eps < 8e-3 adiabatic / 5e-4 isocurvature; flows extrapolate to a local origin: surf, not swell); far-field arm of P4 (polarized SZ remote quadrupoles, 21-cm, GW anisotropy); shore test (cluster-count dipole along the axis: null in PSZ2 and ACT, |eps| < 0.02-0.05); pool spectrum figure (mass of the universe vs ocean spectra); eighth surprise in the epilogue; prior art of the sea model with the primeval-turbulence CMB constraint and the bubble-collision null now cited; closing line.

v6-6

v6-6: remnant bound extended beyond the horizon (CMB quadrupole; 5% of M1 allowed at the typical seed distance); pre-registered dark-lens search for a naked remnant in the DES Y3 convergence map cross-matched against eight cluster catalogues: null over 11% of the sky (core_search.py, notes/core_search.md). The first move named: Holy Moly Ghost Waves. New file CELESTIAL_QUESTIONS.md: twenty-three decidable questions in four groups with status.

v6-5

v6-5: the fragment-and-detonate route to open problem 4(a) (fall-back re-jams, fragments into Planck stars, detonates) was modelled and rejected on three grounds (contrast cap of a jammed medium, no clock for sub-clumps of a trapped ball, superseded Planck-star clock); loop-gravity white-hole remnants adopted as the relic's candidate microphysics; new prediction P13 (No Primordial Holes): no primordial black hole above ~1e12 kg originates in the kernel; quantitative gamma-ray bound on the force-chain window; all referee reports in notes/.

v6-4

v6-4: baby bangs inside the ball as Planck stars (with white-hole-remnant caveat, PBH/microlensing/FRB references, heavy clumps sink and are not ejected); small-bang cell-size distribution pooled over ten Johnson-Mehl seeds; corrected angular size of a squeezed cell at last scattering; spot population as a clock with pixel-limited configurations excluded.

v6-3

Rebound toy rewritten with energy conservation (rings_contact.py, 336 runs): contact caps ejection near 60%, 88% needs free streaming, two tissues not three; stale toy claims removed from abstract/epilogue. H5 slope: cluster H0 anisotropy as fourth pre-stated test, joint direction fit at (260,-30) with 1.8-2.8 sigma global range, 2M++ smudging test null inside 150 Mpc/h.

v6-2

Slope vs Axis of Evil (Table 3b, Fisher combination, 1.7 sigma); open problem 4(b) rewritten with the unstable-column bias-vs-noise criterion and gravitational leptogenesis candidate; gravitational focusing closes 3 of 28 orders in Sec. 5; bubble-symmetry horizon/flatness trade (5.1/5.2); authors and date on title page; hybrid rebound toy withdrawn after energy blow-up.

v6

Rings-first restructure: the Big Apple (H8) as the organizing picture; Kernel 0,0,0 as the hot Big Bang with the depletion equation and the 28-order merger cross-section gap stated; acoustic structure of the rings; 1-D hydro toy (three bands at 45%/98%, 88% unbound at 2x escape speed); P12 Kernel Gradient; H5 cannot separate H8 from LCDM; counts corrected.

v6-1

Hotfix: the first hydro toy's numbers (45%/98% edges, 88% at 2x escape) were code artefacts and are withdrawn; controlled toys show a uniformly kicked fluid is all-or-nothing while a collisionless population with velocity spread partitions smoothly. New: Sun/supernova analogy and remnant bound; void compass (nulls); nucleation as a rogue fluctuation with the single-seed action; Johnson-Mehl counted population (nearest wall 0.13 L, 15 neighbours, 60% younger, observer 0.7 L off its seed); open problem 10 (non-Lambda initial state).

v5-4

New hypothesis H8 (Precious Rings – Dante's Purgatory): identical relics obey different mechanics in different rings; we live in Kernel 0,0,0; core-only energy budget closes with f = T_eq/T_conv; 88% ejecta reassigned to the dark rings; P11 Cold Relics; no inflation-like phase.