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Call for Proposals: An Invitation to the Community
Manifold Relativity Programme · Standing Invitation · Updated April 2026 (v13 Integration)
Paul E. Sorvik, Principal Investigator · ORCID 0009-0008-5717-7110
Note This call was originally published as a Version 12 intake window. With v12 and v13 now published, it has been updated as a standing invitation for future versions. References to “the next version” or “future versions” are deliberate.
With Version 13 of the Manifold Relativity preprint series now complete — including the programme’s first computations and a computational evidence trail — the council maintains a standing invitation for community input on future directions. This is a technical intake process, not a popularity vote. The governing principle remains: should before could.
Community input is welcomed as genuine intellectual input, not symbolic participation. Proposals will be considered seriously, but only within the programme’s standing discipline.
The Programme’s Prime Operational Directive
The CAC council operates under the “should before could” principle. A proposal — even a technically strong one — may be declined if the council determines it should not become the next version for reasons of programme integrity, scope alignment, or epistemic discipline. Declined proposals will always receive at least one substantive reason.
Submission
Proposals may be submitted on a rolling basis. The council may announce bounded intake windows for specific future versions when appropriate. Outside a formal window, proposals may be read and indexed without a guaranteed response schedule.
Who may submit: The invitation is open without restriction. Academic affiliation is not required. Anonymity or pseudonyms are acceptable provided the proposal is technically self-contained. A proposal will not be favoured or disfavoured based on the proposer’s affiliation, credentials, or prior agreement or disagreement with the programme.
What a Proposal Should Contain
At minimum: a clear title; the specific problem or question proposed; which version(s), open problem number(s), or formal object(s) from v1–v13 it connects to; whether it is primarily formal/mathematical, interpretive/conceptual, experimental/methodological, computational, or critical/refutational; and the strongest reason the council should prioritise it now.
Recommended: a short abstract (150 words or fewer), a technical core, and a brief statement of epistemic status using the programme’s taxonomy (Established · Supported · Suggestive · Proposed · Computational · Conjectural · Open).
Proposal Categories
Category 1 — Open Problem Prioritisation. Which indexed open problem (O1–O39) is the most critical next formal step, and why? Must include a technical justification of the dependency chain. Current frontier cluster includes O31, O37, O38, and O39.
Category 2 — Formal Mathematical Contribution. A candidate derivation, refutation, or reduction. Example: a formal demonstration of whether the sub-additive composition from spectral truncation (v13, Proposition 2.8) reduces to the Tsallis-Havrda-Charvát q-algebra under a change of variables, or does not. V13 provides concrete computational data for this comparison.
Category 3 — Experimental or Methodological Design. A specific measurement architecture in which the chart-mismatch residual (P23, v12), the millikelvin measurement floor (P20), or the Cross-Chart Disagreement Vector could in principle be tested or falsified. Must specify what result would confirm or falsify the framework’s prediction.
Category 4 — Computational Extension. Proposals to extend the v13 toy computations: larger system dimensions, non-product Hamiltonians, continuous spectra, or alternative truncation geometries. The v13 computational addendum (five Python scripts with raw outputs) provides the starting point. Familiarity with the evidence trail is strongly recommended.
The Five Acceptance Gates
To be considered for a future version, a proposal must clear five gates, in order. Clarity and rigour matter more than novelty.
| Gate A — Specificity | Must engage with specifically named content from v1–v13: an open problem index number, a definition, an equation, or a formal object. General commentary does not pass. |
| Gate B — Technical substance | Must make a claim that is either true or false, or propose a derivation path that is either valid or not. |
| Gate C — Epistemic discipline | Must correctly label its own epistemic status and not require the council to assert as established what is conjectural. |
| Gate D — Scope | Must be grounded in the W-manifold’s existing postulates. New assumptions must justify why the existing framework is insufficient. |
| Gate E — Should before could | The proposal, if adopted, would produce a manuscript the programme should publish — not merely one it can write. |
Outcomes and Dispositions
Not considered — proposals that fail intake quality: non-specific (does not name content from v1–v13), non-technical, epistemic mislabel, out of scope, or purely rhetorical.
Considered but not selected — proposals that cleared intake but were not adopted: premature (requires prerequisites not yet in place), redundant, too broad, lower priority, better as future work, or declined under the prime directive. A proposal that is considered and declined was still taken seriously. That distinction will be clearly marked.
What Future Editions Will Not Do
Regardless of what proposals arrive, future versions will not: claim to have resolved any open problem unless the resolution is formally established within the framework’s postulates; adopt a proposal that requires abandoning the epistemic structure; be built around a proposal whose primary force is rhetorical rather than formally reviewable; publish before the internal CAC production chain completes its full adversarial review cycle; or exceed a scope that can be rigorously executed as a single bounded preprint.
How to Submit
Send proposals to: Manifold-Relativity.Programme@proton.me
The preprint series v1–v13 (including the v13 computational addendum), the Q&A page, and the community technical note are all at paulsorvik.wordpress.com. Familiarity with the current open-problem frontier (O31, O37, O38, O39) and the v13 evidence trail is the recommended starting point.
No response, endorsement, or collaboration is presumed or requested. The council thanks all technically engaged contributors regardless of disposition.
Manifold Relativity Programme · Call for Proposals · Standing Invitation
Paul E. Sorvik, Principal Investigator · ORCID 0009-0008-5717-7110
paulsorvik.wordpress.com
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