Effects of a Global Symmetry on the Observation of Astronomical Objects
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper has been drafted in an attempt to carry out an explicative discussion, as far as possible jargon-free, about the consequences related to the alleged existence of a global symmetry. The Universe in its entirety, hypothesized as being at rest, is assimilated to a four-dimensional ball. Obviously, the reality we are allowed to perceive cannot exceed the three ordinary dimensions. Each point at rest, or better what we perceive as being a point at rest, may be nothing but one of the intersections between a straight line, that crosses the center of the 4-ball, and the boundary of the ball itself. Actually, taking into account the symmetry, we could even state that each point and its antipode are to be considered as being the same thing. In reading the discussion, finalized to establish a qualitative relation between the hypothesized symmetry and the signals’ transmission, it appears quite evident how a shorter line of reasoning could have been followed, so as to make the description more general and elegant: this way, however, the paper would have surely lost most of its explicative capability.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".