Motion-TimeSpace (MTS) is an open, work-in-progress research programme exploring whether motion, time, space, memory, and observed gravitational/cosmological structure can be organized into a disciplined field-theoretic framework.
This repository is not presented as a completed theory of physics. It is a public research workbench: derivation attempts, claim ceilings, empirical scorecards, red-team ledgers, and scripts for checking whether parts of the framework survive contact with data and known limits.
The project currently has three active layers:
- Empirical closure branch — a late-time SN+BAO cosmology branch that remains competitive under initial robustness checks.
- GR/Newton derivation programme — a finite theorem-stack route toward source-normalized Newtonian recovery and local GR/PPN silence.
- Parent-action formalization — ongoing attempts to replace closure assumptions with parent-derived variational, projector, domain, source, and conservation identities. The latest local-zero branch gives a conditional trace-projector route, but it has not yet closed the local-GR gate.
The strongest honest claim is:
MTS has a live empirical closure branch and a coherent derivation programme toward GR/Newton, but it does not yet derive local GR, PPN recovery, or a completed unified field theory.
CLAIM_CEILING.md— what the repository does and does not currently claim.PROJECT_MAP.md— guide to the public structure.docs/status/STATUS-2026-06-04.md— current project status snapshot.docs/theory-gates/LOCAL-GR-NEWTON-GATES.md— the key GR/Newton/PPN promotion gates.research-programme/checkpoints/106-canonical-R-cosmology-robustness-summary.md— cosmology robustness summary.research-programme/checkpoints/399-local-GR-status-for-human-review.md— local GR/Newton status memo.research-programme/checkpoints/460-source-normalized-Newton-branch-theorem-stack.md— finite Newton theorem stack.research-programme/checkpoints/484-parent-local-zero-action-clause-attempt.md— latest parent-local-zero clause attempt.
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├── CLAIM_CEILING.md
├── PROJECT_MAP.md
├── docs/
│ ├── status/
│ └── theory-gates/
├── research-programme/
│ ├── checkpoints/
│ ├── scripts/
│ └── source-intake/
├── data/
└── archive/
└── legacy-pre-formalization-2026-06/
The repository includes scripts and compact residual/register artifacts, but not large third-party datasets, virtual environments, or raw generated run folders.
Large data products should be downloaded from their original public sources where licensing permits. Local machine paths appearing in historical artifacts have been sanitized where practical.
This work is deliberately conservative about claims. A branch can be useful, promising, or competitive without being promoted to a completed theory. Promotion requires derivation, consistency with known limits, and empirical robustness.