Motion-TimeSpace Research Programme

Motion-TimeSpace (MTS) is an open, work-in-progress research programme exploring whether motion, time, space, memory, and observed gravitational and cosmological structure can be organized into one disciplined field-theoretic framework.

This repository is not presented as a completed theory of physics. It is a public research workbench containing derivation attempts, failed routes, claim ceilings, numerical gates, empirical scorecards, and reproducible scripts.

Current Status

The project now has five connected layers:

1. Parent and infrared branch - one explicit CTP translation-gauge/coframe parent action contains the metric/coframe, visible matter, canonical U(1), and reflection-even motion sector. The coframe is an honest parent premise rather than something falsely derived from four scalar clocks.
2. Local GR/Newton/Maxwell branch - on the source-selected chi=0, locally silent state, the complete nonlinear two-derivative restriction is exactly GR + Lambda + Standard Model + Maxwell. The same action yields Newtonian mechanics, geodesics, lensing, Lorentz force, Maxwell stress, Poynting flux, and the full ten-parameter GR PPN vector without arena retuning.
3. Higher-operator branch - calculated scalar, curvature-photon, nonlocal, and propagation residuals are separated from the exact two-derivative theorem. The first canonical MTS-specific p8 coefficient remains unresolved; its outer integration now uses a reciprocal-projective topology contract after fixed-source continuation produced material Q03/Q05 errors.
4. Cosmology and large-scale motion - a direct parent-scalar SN+BAO+growth+compressed-CMB programme has been executed, while mass/state selection and the occupied retarded response remain open. A single elementary mass cannot simultaneously be the fitted homogeneous cosmology pole and the conditional galactic collective scale.
5. Empirical branches - the preregistered 12-seed galaxy-formation comparison is complete. Its q component is MTS-directed, its RMSE component is unresolved, and the locked result is a statistical draw/metric split rather than model preference.

The 2026-08-08 update extends the contiguous public record through checkpoint 1352, corresponding to private checkpoint 5336. It includes topology corrections, paired-backbone reconstruction work, fold/power-law residual tests, and continued nonclaim higher-operator checks. Large run products and third-party/source caches remain excluded.

The strongest honest claim is:

MTS now contains an explicit parent action with an exact selected nonlinear two-derivative reduction to GR + Lambda + Standard Model + Maxwell, including Newtonian mechanics and all ten GR PPN values. It does not yet derive the parent coframe/visible ontology from motion, time, and space alone, establish all-operator or strong-field completeness, derive the occupied galactic response law, fix the absolute gravitational/vacuum scales internally, or demonstrate overall empirical preference over standard baselines.

Start Here

• CLAIM_CEILING.md - the current claim boundary.
• docs/status/STATUS-2026-08-08.md - concise current status and open problems.
• docs/status/PUBLICATION-NOTES-2026-08-08.md - exact update scope, integrity checks, and exclusions.
• research-programme/catalogue/README.md - bounded direct-link catalogues for large artifact folders.
• docs/theory-gates/LOCAL-GR-NEWTON-GATES.md - the updated local-limit gate map.
• research-programme/checkpoints/1203-Y5-R2FR-canonical-local-parent-action-Hessian-source-residue-and-scale-setting-theorem.md - consolidated local action and scale-setting theorem.
• research-programme/checkpoints/1217-Y5-R2FR-source-complete-coframe-variation-full-PPN-calibration-and-local-state-silence-theorem.md - source-complete coframe variation and full PPN gate.
• research-programme/checkpoints/1219-Y5-R2FR-one-canonical-translation-gauge-parent-action-cross-coupling-and-branch-reduction-theorem.md - common parent action.
• research-programme/checkpoints/1224-Y5-R2FR-common-minimal-motion-trajectory-canonical-Z-quotient-absolute-scale-covariance-and-local-GR-selection.md - selected common motion trajectory.
• research-programme/checkpoints/1227-Y5-R2FR-selected-trajectory-exact-GR-Maxwell-consistent-truncation-universal-source-and-matched-GRSM-excess-theorem.md - strongest current local GR/Newton/Maxwell theorem.
• research-programme/checkpoints/1261-Y5-R2FR-reciprocal-projective-chamber-boundary-tracker.md - replacement topology contract.
• research-programme/checkpoints/1352-Y5-R2FR-fold-pair-equivalence-and-incremental-ownership-gate.md - latest checkpoint and active status of the fold/pair equivalence branch.
• research-programme/protocols/1192/README.md - frozen protocol and complete compact 12-seed outcome.

Repository Layout

.
|-- CLAIM_CEILING.md
|-- PROJECT_MAP.md
|-- docs/
|   |-- status/
|   `-- theory-gates/
|-- research-programme/
|   |-- catalogue/
|   |-- checkpoints/
|   |-- protocols/
|   |-- scripts/
|   `-- source-intake/
|-- tools/
|-- data/
`-- archive/
    `-- legacy-pre-formalization-2026-06/

Reproducibility Notes

Public checkpoint filenames use a compact sequence, while document titles and generated artifact names retain their original private checkpoint IDs for provenance. The established offset is 3984; this update maps private checkpoints 5176-5336 to public checkpoints 1192-1352.

The repository includes source scripts and compact residual/register artifacts, but not large third-party datasets, virtual environments, raw generated run folders, or the local functional_rg source cache. Local machine paths retained in historical artifacts are provenance records, not portable execution paths.

GitHub can cap the visible entries in very large flat folders and pull-request file lists. The generated catalogue and SHA-256 publication inventory provide direct access and completeness checks without changing historical paths.

Windows Checkout

The preserved legacy archive contains relative paths up to 232 characters. A clone into a long Windows parent path can therefore hit the older 260- character checkout limit even though every Git object was downloaded. Use a short destination such as D:\MTS, or enable Git's long-path handling for that clone:

git -c core.longpaths=true clone https://github.com/Martin123132/Motion-TimeSpace-.git D:\MTS

Research Ethos

This work is deliberately conservative about claims. A branch can be useful, promising, or competitive without being promoted to a completed theory. Promotion requires derivation, consistency with known limits, and empirical robustness against matched baselines.