Current research notice: 19 September 2026
This repository preserves the historical SymC geophysics and Planetary Physiology work. The original README described a universal critical-damping law, predictive rupture/eruption capability, and cross-domain unification more strongly than the current SymC General Operations Manual v0.8.0 permits.
Those broad statements are not current program-level conclusions.
Geophysical systems must be treated through their native governing models and observables first. Fault friction, viscoelastic relaxation, seismic-wave attenuation, aseismic creep, magmatic transport, poroelastic effects, and coupled lithosphere dynamics do not automatically share one scalar damping ratio or one universal chi boundary.
A mechanical chi coordinate is admissible only when a specific stable second-order mode or independently justified reduction supports it. A useful empirical or proxy coordinate must be labeled as such rather than inheriting the interpretation of a mechanical critical-damping ratio.
The current framework therefore does not assume that:
- all fault or magmatic systems converge to chi = 1;
- one fixed chi window is universal across planets or geological regimes;
- a cross-sectional or fitted ratio is automatically a physical damping ratio;
- recurrence of similar numerical values proves a shared mechanism;
- a descriptive state coordinate establishes rupture timing, eruption prediction, or operational early warning;
- a cross-domain resemblance establishes universality.
The existing Planetary Physiology PDF, supplement, and archive are retained unchanged as historical research artifacts and provenance.
They require a claim-by-claim GOM-v0.8.3 reconstruction before their stronger empirical, predictive, cross-planetary, or cross-domain statements should be carried into a new manuscript or tool.
A future rebuild should preserve the useful native evidence while separating:
- local versus embedded stability;
- scalar versus modal/vector versus conglomerate/system structure;
- Function Map versus Limit Map;
- state classification versus recovery/resilience;
- descriptive association versus mechanism;
- retrospective event reconstruction versus untouched prediction;
- ordinary populations versus rare natural limit cases;
- project-specific empirical coordinates versus mechanically licensed chi.
At this public-repository level, the historical materials should be read as prior hypotheses and evidence to be re-audited, not as a current declaration of a universal geophysical law or validated operational predictor.
A narrowed, negative, regime-specific, or proxy-only result is an acceptable outcome of the rebuild.
The active reconstruction plan is GOM_V0.8.3_RECONSTRUCTION_PLAN_20260921.md. Under GOM v0.8.3, any licensed local/modal lowercase chi and the broader geophysical Chi architecture must be interpreted jointly rather than merely reported separately. Perturbation/recovery structure is used only when native science supports it, and stability is not defined as recovery.
main is currently archival/public research state. No GOM-v0.8.3-complete geophysics rebuild branch has yet been designated as the present source of record.
Until that reconstruction exists, later program-level generator-first rules supersede incompatible universal language in older README text while the underlying historical artifacts remain preserved for provenance.