Methodology

Core workflow

Rules used throughout the project

• Do not import known physical equations as hidden mechanisms.
• Do not identify coordinates or mathematical state variables with ontology.
• Keep fine and coarse descriptive levels distinct.
• Treat measured constants as calibrations when they are not independently derived.
• Distinguish CORE, DERIVED, CANDIDATE, CALIBRATION and OPEN claims.
• Prefer explicit falsification criteria to rhetorical claims of completeness.

Coordinates and geometry

Coordinates are treated as mapping tools. UGSD does not insert a fundamental 3+1 coordinate ontology into its minimal starting point.

Coarse-graining

Planck scales and SI units can be used as effective calibration bridges without being interpreted as the smallest literal structures of reality.