Every episode the wing has planned, the next one first. Each entry gives the question, the claim as it was presented, the check that could fail and the tools. None has been run, so there are no results and no verdicts on this page.
Rendered from the lab’s registry · the registry as JSON · the tested episodes
Where the show’s claims come from. Every claim attributed to The Why Files below comes from the episode's podcast transcript (ep. 113, podscripts.co). A research subagent summarised it (2026-09-28). The same day, before any verdict was published, the specific claims each published verdict rests on were re-checked against the transcript in a second, independent read, and both reads agree. Transcript reads go through a summariser, so treat exact wording as close paraphrase, not quotation.
The episode on the bench now. Not yet tested, and its gate is a draft.
The question. Can a Kozyrev mirror be a motor as a rotor?
The claim, as presented. A question put to the lab: if a Kozyrev mirror twists waves, can it turn itself when it is free to rotate?
Draft gate, not yet preregistered. Case (c), diffuse equal-temperature noise, must come out zero within error, or the model is broken. Reaction torque is computed as −(angular-momentum flux), τ = ℓP/ω.
Tools. engines/wave2d
11 more, in the registry’s order. None has been run.
The question. Why does it spin the 'wrong' way for light pressure?
The claim, as presented. The popular explanation: light pressure pushes the vanes round.
Draft gate, not yet preregistered. Light pressure alone must predict the opposite of the observed spin; a thermal edge-flow (transpiration) model is compared on sign.
Tools. new: kinetic-gas toy (DSMC-lite) or a published model
The question. Is a log spiral really scale-free?
The claim, as presented. Antenna lore: a log-spiral antenna works the same at every frequency (Rumsey's principle; Dyson's equiangular spiral antenna; cited from memory, to verify).
Draft gate, not yet preregistered. Sweep frequency: ⟨ℓ⟩/k and the radiation pattern should collapse onto one curve between the cut-offs set by r₀ and r_max; report where the collapse breaks.
Tools. engines/wave2d
The question. Does the coil help us hear bass?
The claim, as presented. A published proposal that the cochlea's coiling concentrates low-frequency energy at the outer wall (Manoussaki et al., PRL 2006; cited from memory, to verify).
Draft gate, not yet preregistered. Compare straight, coiled and log-coiled tubes for where low-frequency energy concentrates. The straight tube is the control and must show no outer-wall concentration.
Tools. engines/wave2d · graded-medium extension
The question. Does a shell 'amplify' the sea?
The claim, as presented. Folk claim: hold a shell to your ear and it amplifies the sound of the sea.
Draft gate, not yet preregistered. At equal temperature, output power must be ≤ input power in every band (equilibrium).
Tools. engines/wave2d
The question. Can a mic ring read a rotor's blade count and spin direction?
Where it comes from. The lab’s own question; no show or source makes this claim.
Draft gate, not yet preregistered. A rotating B-source rotor in the time-domain explorer, decomposed into channels, must give blind recovery of B and the spin sign on held-out rotor configurations.
Tools. wave2d explorer (rotating sources)
The question. Can twisted sound separate left- from right-handed objects?
Where it comes from. The lab’s own question; no show or source makes this claim.
Draft gate, not yet preregistered. Instrument: the mirror pair must give exactly opposite torques. Physics: a handedness-dependent force on small chiral scatterers in a twisted beam must exceed solver noise.
Tools. engines/wave2d
The question. Does coiling a tuba change its sound?
The claim, as presented. Folk question: does coiling a brass instrument's tube change its sound?
Draft gate, not yet preregistered. Straight vs coiled tube input impedance and radiated spectrum; the gate states where 'gentle' ends.
Tools. engines/wave2d
The question. Each 'energy device' claim, one at a time.
The claim, as presented. Commercial and folk 'energy device' claims, taken one per episode.
Draft gate, not yet preregistered. Same template each time: the claimed effect → the physical quantity it would change → measure it → verdict.
Tools. per claim
The question. The episode's actual claim: a spiral concentrates an ambient energy.
The claim, as presented. The episode presents Kozyrev mirrors as 'focusing' time energy, together with electromagnetic shielding, and describes the spiral as a Fibonacci spiral (the golden log spiral the lab used in HI-1). The Why Files, “Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors”, June 2023 · the episode
Draft gate, not yet preregistered. Net flux zero within 3σ. The verdict must separate 'denser here' from 'harvestable'.
Tools. engines/wave2d (Bath)
The question. Does an aluminium tube shield out geomagnetic 'interference'?
The claim, as presented. The episode presents the aluminium mirror (the Dikson / Kaznacheev mirror) as shielding out geomagnetic 'interference'. The Why Files, “Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors”, June 2023 · the episode
Draft gate, not yet preregistered. A 2-D TM simulation with conductive walls must reproduce the skin-depth law.
Tools. calculation · EM code (e.g. Meep)
The question. Do '95 % telepathy across 5,000 people' and '61 % vs 8 % earthquake prediction' beat chance?
The claim, as presented. The episode presents claimed statistics: 95 % telepathy across 5,000 people, and 61 % vs 8 % earthquake prediction. The Why Files, “Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors”, June 2023 · the episode
Draft gate, not yet preregistered. Not physics: define chance baselines, correct for multiple comparisons, and score earthquake forecasts properly (Molchan diagrams against the USGS catalogue). A claim survives only if it beats a preregistered baseline.
Tools. statistics notebook · USGS catalogue
Ideas waiting for a question sharp enough to fail. Not episodes yet, so no gates.
None of these names a quantity an instrument could measure, so there is nothing for a gate to fail on. They are listed so they are not quietly dropped, and they get no verdict.
Instruments being built on the same wave engine as episode 1, which later episodes will lean on. Each has a check that can fail; none has been run.
From the lab’s roadmap (wave2d, items W1–W6), which is not public yet. Written by hand, not generated.
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