{
  "schema": "as-seen-on-tv/episodes@1",
  "canonical": "benskamps/coherence-lab: research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes.json",
  "note": "The one source of truth for the As Seen on TV wing (ROADMAP §2.6 points here). Field meanings are in research/as-seen-on-tv/README.md. Copies elsewhere (the brokenbranch.dev wing) are downstream and must not be edited by hand. A gate on anything not 'done' is a DRAFT until the episode's PREREG file is committed. Nothing here is a result unless status is 'done' and verdict is set.",
  "updated": "2026-09-28",
  "verdict_kinds": {
    "holds": "The claim holds.",
    "different-reason": "The effect is real, but for a different reason.",
    "nothing-there": "Nothing there."
  },
  "statuses": ["done", "next", "queued", "shelf"],
  "testable_as": ["2-D wave simulator", "kinetic-gas model", "EM code", "statistics", "history", "per claim", "not testable"],
  "source_caveat": "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.",
  "episodes": [
    {
      "id": "HI-1",
      "slug": "the-honest-spiral",
      "title": "The Honest Spiral",
      "question": "Does a Kozyrev mirror do anything?",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": "The lab's own earlier Kozyrev notes (v1–v4): a spiral 'Kozyrev mirror' twists fluctuations into net angular momentum, with a 'robust' L_z = +19.05 / −18.83 carried through January's shelving and September's reversal.",
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": "Preregistered in research/kozyrev-v5/PREREG.md and PREREG_v6.md before the runs. The author's priors are recorded there and were wrong twice (A1, B5).",
      "gate": "The +19.05 must survive a stable time step (A″, D5); a closed lossless cavity with a real source must give ⟨ℓ⟩ = 0 (B1); the mirror twin must give the opposite sign exactly (B2); at one temperature everywhere the net angular-momentum flux must vanish (G0).",
      "tools": ["engines/wave2d", "wave2d explorer (three.js)"],
      "status": "done",
      "page": "/labs/as-seen-on-tv/honest-spiral/",
      "verdict": {
        "kind": "different-reason",
        "line": "A spiral does twist the waves that escape it, by ordinary reflection. In equilibrium the twist is zero, and the old +19.05 was an integrator artifact. The mechanism is textbook prior art."
      },
      "est": "done",
      "notes": "Scope correction (2026-09-28): HI-1 tested the lab's own twist claim. The Why Files episode's mechanism is 'focusing', not twist; that claim is HI-12.",
      "links": [
        {"label": "v5 results", "path": "research/kozyrev-v5/RESULTS.md"},
        {"label": "v6 results", "path": "research/kozyrev-v5/RESULTS_v6.md"},
        {"label": "prior art", "path": "research/kozyrev-v5/PRIOR_ART.md"},
        {"label": "preregistration v5", "path": "research/kozyrev-v5/PREREG.md"},
        {"label": "preregistration v6", "path": "research/kozyrev-v5/PREREG_v6.md"},
        {"label": "live explorer (W7; on branch claude/wave2d-engine until PR #16 merges)", "path": "engines/wave2d/explorer/index.html"},
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-01-the-honest-spiral.md"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-2",
      "slug": "the-sound-windmill",
      "title": "The sound windmill",
      "question": "Can a Kozyrev mirror be a motor as a rotor?",
      "source": null,
      "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?",
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": "Torque on the spiral is nonzero with a definite sign in (a) a directed sound beam and (b) with a noise source inside it, and zero within error in (c) diffuse equal-temperature noise.",
      "gate": "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"],
      "status": "next",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": "2 h",
      "notes": "Feeds W6, the buildable acoustic 'Kozyrev motor'.",
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-02-the-sound-windmill.md"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-3",
      "slug": "the-crookes-radiometer",
      "title": "The Crookes radiometer",
      "question": "Why does it spin the 'wrong' way for light pressure?",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": "The popular explanation: light pressure pushes the vanes round.",
      "testable_as": "kinetic-gas model",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": "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"],
      "status": "queued",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": "3 h",
      "notes": "wave2d cannot do gas flow. The history is itself the lesson: a real spin with the wrong reason attached for years.",
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-03-the-crookes-radiometer.md"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-4",
      "slug": "the-spiral-antenna",
      "title": "The spiral antenna",
      "question": "Is a log spiral really scale-free?",
      "source": null,
      "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).",
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": "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"],
      "status": "queued",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": "1.5 h",
      "notes": null,
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-04-the-spiral-antenna.md"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-5",
      "slug": "the-cochlea",
      "title": "The cochlea",
      "question": "Does the coil help us hear bass?",
      "source": null,
      "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).",
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": "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"],
      "status": "queued",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": "2–3 h",
      "notes": null,
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-05-the-cochlea.md"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-6",
      "slug": "the-seashell",
      "title": "The seashell",
      "question": "Does a shell 'amplify' the sea?",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": "Folk claim: hold a shell to your ear and it amplifies the sound of the sea.",
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": "Room noise in, spectrum out: a resonant filter, no gain.",
      "gate": "At equal temperature, output power must be ≤ input power in every band (equilibrium).",
      "tools": ["engines/wave2d"],
      "status": "queued",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": "1 h",
      "notes": null,
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-06-the-seashell.md"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-7",
      "slug": "drone-id-by-spinning-noise",
      "title": "Drone-ID by spinning noise",
      "question": "Can a mic ring read a rotor's blade count and spin direction?",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": null,
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": "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)"],
      "status": "queued",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": "2 h",
      "notes": "The lab's own question, not a claim from a show.",
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-07-drone-id-by-spinning-noise.md"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-8",
      "slug": "the-twist-sorter",
      "title": "The twist sorter",
      "question": "Can twisted sound separate left- from right-handed objects?",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": null,
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": "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"],
      "status": "queued",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": "2 h",
      "notes": "The lab's own question, not a claim from a show.",
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-08-the-twist-sorter.md"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-9",
      "slug": "coiled-brass",
      "title": "Coiled brass",
      "question": "Does coiling a tuba change its sound?",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": "Folk question: does coiling a brass instrument's tube change its sound?",
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": "Nearly no change in input impedance or radiated spectrum while bends stay gentle relative to the wavelength.",
      "gate": "Straight vs coiled tube input impedance and radiated spectrum; the gate states where 'gentle' ends.",
      "tools": ["engines/wave2d"],
      "status": "queued",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": "1.5 h",
      "notes": null,
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-09-coiled-brass.md"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-10",
      "slug": "energy-devices",
      "title": "Pyramid power, orgone boxes, scalar pendants…",
      "question": "Each 'energy device' claim, one at a time.",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": "Commercial and folk 'energy device' claims, taken one per episode.",
      "testable_as": "per claim",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": "Same template each time: the claimed effect → the physical quantity it would change → measure it → verdict.",
      "tools": ["per claim"],
      "status": "queued",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": "per claim",
      "notes": "A template, not one episode. Each device gets its own id when scoped.",
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-10-energy-devices.md"},
        {"label": "Torsion field (pseudoscience), Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_field_(pseudoscience)"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-11",
      "slug": "time-reflection",
      "title": "Time reflection, the real 'bending time'",
      "question": "The episode cites the 2023 CUNY time-reflection experiment. What does it actually show?",
      "source": {"show": "The Why Files", "episode": "Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors", "date": "2023-06", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hwXoCrEUs"},
      "claim_as_presented": "The episode cites the 2023 CUNY time-reflection experiment (Moussa et al., Nature Physics 19, 863) in an episode framed around bending time and time travel.",
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": "Preregistered: switching the wave speed c1 -> c2 everywhere at once gives T = (1 + c1/c2)/2, R = (1 - c1/c2)/2 when u and u_t are continuous; T = (1 + c2/c1)/2, R = (1 - c2/c1)/2 when u and momentum are continuous; frequency x c2/c1 at conserved k; energy x (1 + (c2/c1)^2)/2, supplied or absorbed by the switch.",
      "gate": "Amplitudes within 2 % at c2/c1 = 0.5, 2, 3 for both boundary conditions, and wrong-model formulas must fail; frequency within 1 %; no backward wave below 1e-6 without a switch (seen red with a mis-initialised incident); dt halving within 0.3 % (seen red with backward Euler); energy ratio within 1 %; 2-D refocusing within 3 %.",
      "tools": ["own numpy 1-D/2-D leapfrog (two boundary-condition models)"],
      "status": "done",
      "page": "/labs/as-seen-on-tv/time-reflection/",
      "verdict": {"kind": "different-reason", "line": "Time reflection is real and matches the textbook formulas to within 0.25 %: a medium switched uniformly in time reverses a signal's order and shifts its frequency, with the switch supplying the energy. Nothing reaches a time before its cause, so it is not bending time or time travel."},
      "est": "2 h",
      "notes": "Self-graded, no Codex pass. One causality check (G10) failed as first implemented, because its window caught the incident pulse's own tail; its preregistered replacement passed and is labelled as a property, not evidence. Claim wording re-checked against the transcript on 2026-09-28: the episode presents the CUNY time-reflection experiment as validating Kozyrev's view that time is not linear.",
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-11-time-reflection.md"},
        {"label": "PREREG", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/HI-11-time-reflection/PREREG.md"},
        {"label": "RESULTS", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/HI-11-time-reflection/RESULTS.md"},
        {"label": "1-D simulation", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/HI-11-time-reflection/time_reflection_1d.py"},
        {"label": "2-D refocusing", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/HI-11-time-reflection/time_reflection_2d.py"},
        {"label": "Moussa et al., Nature Physics 19, 863 (2023)", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-01975-y"},
        {"label": "Moussa et al., preprint arXiv:2208.07236", "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07236"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-12",
      "slug": "does-the-mirror-focus",
      "title": "Does the mirror 'focus' anything?",
      "question": "The episode's actual claim: a spiral concentrates an ambient energy.",
      "source": {"show": "The Why Files", "episode": "Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors", "date": "2023-06", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hwXoCrEUs"},
      "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).",
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": "In an equal-temperature bath the time-averaged energy density can be non-uniform (the local density of states varies near walls, as in any resonator), while the net flux is zero and nothing can be extracted.",
      "gate": "Net flux zero within 3σ. The verdict must separate 'denser here' from 'harvestable'.",
      "tools": ["engines/wave2d (Bath)"],
      "status": "queued",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": "1.5 h",
      "notes": "This is the Why Files episode's own mechanism; HI-1 did not test it. The episode links its effects to an active magnetosphere, a non-equilibrium driver; non-equilibrium twist of waves is not evidence for any of the episode's claims.",
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-12-does-the-mirror-focus.md"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-13",
      "slug": "aluminium-as-a-shield",
      "title": "Aluminium as a shield",
      "question": "Does an aluminium tube shield out geomagnetic 'interference'?",
      "source": {"show": "The Why Files", "episode": "Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors", "date": "2023-06", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hwXoCrEUs"},
      "claim_as_presented": "The episode presents the aluminium mirror (the Dikson / Kaznacheev mirror) as shielding out geomagnetic 'interference'.",
      "testable_as": "EM code",
      "prediction": "Skin depth δ = √(2ρ/ωμ) for aluminium is roughly 8 cm at 1 Hz (hand estimate, to verify), so a thin sheet does almost nothing against slow magnetic fields.",
      "gate": "A 2-D TM simulation with conductive walls must reproduce the skin-depth law.",
      "tools": ["calculation", "EM code (e.g. Meep)"],
      "status": "queued",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": "1–2 h",
      "notes": null,
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-13-aluminium-as-a-shield.md"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-14",
      "slug": "honest-statistics",
      "title": "Honest statistics",
      "question": "Do '95 % telepathy across 5,000 people' and '61 % vs 8 % earthquake prediction' beat chance?",
      "source": {"show": "The Why Files", "episode": "Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors", "date": "2023-06", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hwXoCrEUs"},
      "claim_as_presented": "The episode presents claimed statistics: 95 % telepathy across 5,000 people, and 61 % vs 8 % earthquake prediction.",
      "testable_as": "statistics",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": "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"],
      "status": "queued",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": "2 h",
      "notes": "Depends on finding the underlying data; without it the episode can only say what a fair test would need.",
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-14-honest-statistics.md"},
        {"label": "The Why Files, Project Stargate episode (IMDb)", "url": "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27749834/"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "HI-15",
      "slug": "star-torsion",
      "title": "Star 'torsion' at true positions",
      "question": "Did Kozyrev detect stars at their calculated present and future positions?",
      "source": {"show": "The Why Files", "episode": "Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors", "date": "2023-06", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hwXoCrEUs"},
      "claim_as_presented": "The episode presents Kozyrev's claim to detect stars at their calculated present and future positions, and the claim that he 'died mysteriously'.",
      "testable_as": "history",
      "prediction": "Preregistered: if the detector sensed where the stars are, its published offsets should agree with modern parallaxes at least as well as with the 1970s-80s catalogue values used to compute them.",
      "gate": "For stars whose predicted offset moves by 8 arcsec or more under modern parallaxes: if at least 2/3 are worse by more than 4 arcsec against modern values, the detections track the old calculation. The rule is checked in both directions on planted data.",
      "tools": ["SIMBAD (Hipparcos 2007, Gaia EDR3)", "history"],
      "status": "done",
      "page": "/labs/as-seen-on-tv/star-torsion/",
      "verdict": {"kind": "nothing-there", "line": "The published star detections agree with the parallaxes of their day, including ones since revised by 2-5 sigma, and miss the modern positions by 13-27 arcsec. The agreement is with the calculation, not with the sky."},
      "est": "2 h",
      "notes": "Only 3 stars qualify for the test. Table values come from a sympathetic 2025 reproduction; the Russian originals were not read. The Sun's '2 deg 4.6 arcmin' is Earth's rotation during 8.3 minutes, not the Sun's position. Death: 27 Feb 1983, Leningrad, no cause given in sources; no source for 'mysterious'. History note, not a verdict. Self-graded. Claim wording re-checked against the transcript on 2026-09-28: the episode says Kozyrev detected torsion at a star's past, calculated present (strongest reading) and predicted future positions, and calls his death sudden and mysterious.",
      "links": [
        {"label": "brief", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/episodes/HI-15-star-torsion.md"},
        {"label": "PREREG (section HI-15)", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/HI-11-time-reflection/PREREG.md"},
        {"label": "RESULTS", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/HI-15-star-torsion/RESULTS.md"},
        {"label": "arithmetic", "path": "research/as-seen-on-tv/HI-15-star-torsion/star_offsets.py"},
        {"label": "Rabounski & Borissova, Progress in Physics 21 (2025) 99", "url": "https://www.progress-in-physics.com/2025/PP-71-01.PDF"},
        {"label": "SIMBAD", "url": "https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/"},
        {"label": "Nikolai Kozyrev, Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Aleksandrovich_Kozyrev"},
        {"label": "Commission on Pseudoscience, Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Pseudoscience"},
        {"label": "Torsion field (pseudoscience), Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_field_(pseudoscience)"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "S-1",
      "slug": "sound-that-walks-around-you",
      "title": "Sound that walks around you",
      "question": "A speaker ring making a genuinely rotating sound field (demo + explorer mode).",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": null,
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": null,
      "tools": [],
      "status": "shelf",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": null,
      "notes": "Idea shelf: not yet scoped; needs a question sharp enough to fail.",
      "links": []
    },
    {
      "id": "S-2",
      "slug": "a-design-game",
      "title": "A design game",
      "question": "Draw a wall, and the engine scores its twist; W2's ceiling as a puzzle.",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": null,
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": null,
      "tools": [],
      "status": "shelf",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": null,
      "notes": "Idea shelf: not yet scoped; needs a question sharp enough to fail.",
      "links": []
    },
    {
      "id": "S-3",
      "slug": "spinning-cells-with-sound",
      "title": "Spinning cells with sound",
      "question": "An acoustofluidic chip wall shape that rotates cells for microscopy.",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": null,
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": null,
      "tools": [],
      "status": "shelf",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": null,
      "notes": "Idea shelf: not yet scoped; needs a question sharp enough to fail.",
      "links": []
    },
    {
      "id": "S-4",
      "slug": "rainbow-trapping",
      "title": "Rainbow trapping",
      "question": "A graded spiral that parks each frequency at a different radius: a spectrum analyser like the cochlea.",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": null,
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": null,
      "tools": [],
      "status": "shelf",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": null,
      "notes": "Idea shelf: not yet scoped. Pairs with HI-5.",
      "links": []
    },
    {
      "id": "S-5",
      "slug": "turbines-and-drones-from-afar",
      "title": "Wind turbines and drones heard from afar",
      "question": "Infrasound spinning modes: rotation direction at range.",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": null,
      "testable_as": "2-D wave simulator",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": null,
      "tools": [],
      "status": "shelf",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": null,
      "notes": "Idea shelf: not yet scoped. Extends HI-7.",
      "links": []
    },
    {
      "id": "S-6",
      "slug": "a-drone-swarm-as-a-speaker-array",
      "title": "A drone swarm as a speaker array",
      "question": "Moving sources making a rotating field over a crowd.",
      "source": null,
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      "prediction": null,
      "gate": null,
      "tools": [],
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      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": null,
      "notes": "Idea shelf: not yet scoped; needs a question sharp enough to fail.",
      "links": []
    },
    {
      "id": "S-7",
      "slug": "why-are-there-spirals-everywhere",
      "title": "Why are there spirals everywhere?",
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      "testable_as": "history",
      "prediction": "Most of those spirals are not golden.",
      "gate": null,
      "tools": [],
      "status": "shelf",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": null,
      "notes": "Idea shelf: not yet scoped; needs a question sharp enough to fail.",
      "links": []
    },
    {
      "id": "S-8",
      "slug": "the-leaf-blower-reveal",
      "title": "The leaf-blower reveal",
      "question": "Centrifugal fan and pump volutes are spiral casings, often log spirals (verify the design history).",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": null,
      "testable_as": "history",
      "prediction": null,
      "gate": null,
      "tools": [],
      "status": "shelf",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": null,
      "notes": "Idea shelf: not yet scoped. The 'Kozyrev mirror' has been a motor part all along.",
      "links": []
    },
    {
      "id": "S-9",
      "slug": "the-christmas-pyramid",
      "title": "The Christmas pyramid / candle carousel",
      "question": "The thermal motor people already own.",
      "source": null,
      "claim_as_presented": null,
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      "prediction": null,
      "gate": null,
      "tools": [],
      "status": "shelf",
      "page": null,
      "verdict": null,
      "est": null,
      "notes": "Idea shelf: not yet scoped. Pairs with HI-3.",
      "links": []
    }
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    {"claim": "Time as an energy with structure.", "source": {"show": "The Why Files", "episode": "Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors", "date": "2023-06", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hwXoCrEUs"}},
    {"claim": "Permafrost storing 'time information'.", "source": {"show": "The Why Files", "episode": "Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors", "date": "2023-06", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hwXoCrEUs"}},
    {"claim": "Time travel and UFO testimony.", "source": {"show": "The Why Files", "episode": "Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors", "date": "2023-06", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hwXoCrEUs"}},
    {"claim": "IQ and healing anecdotes.", "source": {"show": "The Why Files", "episode": "Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors", "date": "2023-06", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hwXoCrEUs"}}
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}
