The Science

What the Scalar Flower instrument tests, what it has found, what it has not, and how the null model is computed. The instrument is open about its method, open about its limits, and built to be falsified.

The instrument in one paragraph

The Scalar Flower is a wave-superposition construction. The planets are treated as coherent wave sources with measured synodic periods, the lunar node and the galactic center are taken as the two anchors, and the resulting field is rendered on a Flower-of-Life lattice that is the chosen geometry of the instrument — not a discovery. The mathematics are exact and reproducible. The meaning assigned to the geometry is symbolic craft on real computation. The full construction is on The Method page.

The null model

Every claim made by the instrument is tested against a random-epoch null: 2,000 random skies drawn from six centuries (1700–2300) of real orbital correlations. The real sky's reading is then compared to the distribution of the random skies' readings. If a feature of the real sky's reading is not statistically distinguishable from the random-sky distribution, the instrument reports it as consistent with chance — not as significant.

The instrument ships with its null model on the chart panel. Every field-reading shows the random-epoch p-value next to the observed value. The user can see the base rate.

The pre-registered tests

The following tests were pre-registered, meaning the question and the statistical procedure were fixed before the data was examined. Each test has a one-sentence description, the number tested, the result, and the verdict.

[TODO · Sayer to verify]
Numbers in the table below were reconstructed from the technical spec and project state. The "16 tests" figure and the exact p-values per test row need Sayer's review before this page is treated as authoritative. Each row that is unverified is flagged with a [TODO] tag.
# Test Observed Null baseline p Verdict
1 Lunar-node axis alignment with solar apex [TODO] uniform on sphere [TODO] PASS
2 Galactic Center sits inside Mula nakshatra observed 1/27 nakshatras [TODO] PASS
3 Flower-of-Life 6-fold symmetry in latitude bands [TODO] random 6-fold [TODO] PARTIAL
4 Lens co-occurrences in-plane 2.59 (p0) 2.59 expected 0.707 AT CHANCE
5 Inter-layer pair co-occurrences 0.000 mean 0 expected measure zero SCANNER RETIRED
6 FCC stacking invariance (vs. HCP) identical identical n/a PASS
7 Phase-30 vs. phase-0 p-value distribution p0=0.479, p30=0.048 uniform [TODO] FORKING-PATHS WARNING
8 Eclipse-calibrated lens positions [TODO] uniform [TODO] PASS
9 Population calibration (N=3,800 charts) [TODO] null model [TODO] PASS
10 Latitude exaggeration (LAT_EXAG ×3) quarantined to rendering rendering only n/a n/a PASS — audit fix
11 Cuboctahedron geometry corrected 12 vertices, 8 triangles, 6 squares spec n/a PASS — audit fix
12 Specialness language removed from panel verified n/a n/a PASS — audit fix
13 Per-phase p-value computation Poisson upper tail lambda=2.59 n/a PASS — audit fix
14 Lumpy-statistic guard on lens co-occurrences emitted per phase n/a n/a PASS — audit fix
15 Frame-invariance theorem (rotation/translation/zoom) exact analytic n/a PASS
16 Out-of-sample replication (held-out charts) [TODO] null model [TODO] PARTIAL

What the instrument does NOT claim

How the tests were reviewed

The pre-registered tests were reviewed in three rounds by an external code-reading reviewer (referred to in the project records as Fable). Each round produced a written response. The three responses are kept in the project's internal record. A summary of the audit-driven corrections (rows 10–14 above) is in the white paper introduction.

What is still owed

How to read a chart, in one sentence

Look at the field. See whether the geometry resonates with what you know of the person. Decide for yourself what it means. The instrument is the — the practitioner is the reader.

Last updated: [PLACEHOLDER · date Sayer confirmed the numbers]