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Evidence

All 48 evidence records in this case's ledger. Every record carries an explicit direction, keeps what the source states separate from what we infer, and links its source and the claims it bears on. Supporting and undermining evidence get the same structure and the same seriousness.

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Supports

19 records · strongest first

Records that favor a rung of the featured hypothesis.

Supports· strongCCC-E005

Gurzadyan & Penrose's response: the dispute is over what the null sky is

what the source states: "Two groups have confirmed the results of our paper concerning the actual existence of low variance circles in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) sky... We point out two discrepancies between their treatment and ours, however, one technical, the other having to do with the very understanding of what constitutes a Gaussian random signal. Both groups simulate maps using the CMB power spectrum for LCDM, while we simulate a pure Gaussian sky plus the WMAP's noise... we particularly emphasize that the low variance circles occur in concentric families, and this key fact cannot be explained as a purely random effect."
what we infer: The clearest primary-source statement that both sides agree on the data and disagree on the null ensemble — this record evidences what the disagreement is, not who is right. Note the position taken: ΛCDM-spectrum simulations are held to be the wrong standard of "chance" because, on the proponents' view, most of the CMB signal is not random.
limitations: A three-page unrefereed response note.
The claim that concentric families 'cannot be explained as a purely random effect' is asserted, not quantified against the ΛCDM ensemble.

Gurzadyan, V. G. (2010)AI-verified citationCCC-C003

Supports· strongCCC-E015

Penrose 2018: mass fade-out required and admittedly unconventional

what the source states: "There will, however, be a residue of a relatively small number of massive particles, and for the strict requirements of the theory one must apparently assume that there is a mechanism whereby in the hugely long-term future, mass eventually fades away, asymptotically — which I shall refer to as 'mass fade-out' — an admittedly unconventional hypothesis, but not contradicted by current observation, and not implausible on the basis of a particle physics which is extended from current ideas by the presence of a positive Λ."
what we infer: The theory's own author states the requirement and concedes the mechanism is unconventional — this record supports CCC-C005 (which is a claim about the theory's costs) directly from the primary source, with the mitigation (de Sitter group, mass not a Casimir operator) recorded in the same breath.
limitations: A theory paper: this evidences what CCC requires, not whether nature obliges.

Penrose, R. (2018)AI-verified citationCCC-C005

Supports· strongCCC-E018

Penrose 2018: erebons — the dark-matter prediction in full

what the source states: Erebons are introduced as gravitation-only particles: "their mass would have to be something of the order of a Planck mass (10−5 g) or thereabouts, perhaps with some factor such as 8π involved... erebons should be able to decay, with a lifetime of perhaps something like 10^11 years." Their decay replaces inflation as the source of CMB fluctuations: "there is no inflation in CCC." On detection: "There is an intriguing issue concerning whether such erebon decays in our own aeon might be detectable by gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO."
what we infer: Supports CCC-C007 and CCC-C008 as statements of what the theory predicts — the record establishes that CCC has a forward-looking, laboratory-adjacent commitment, which most pre-Big-Bang proposals lack. The vagueness of the parameters ("perhaps," "or thereabouts") is the claim's own recorded objection.
limitations: Order-of-magnitude proposal without a computed decay spectrum or event rate.

Penrose, R. (2018)AI-verified citationCCC-C007 CCC-C008

Supports· strongCCC-E020

Planck 2018 inflation constraints: the rival's quantitative scorecard

what the source states: The Planck 2018 inflation analysis reports precision fits of the ΛCDM+inflation framework to the full temperature, polarization, and lensing dataset: a measured red spectral tilt, tight Gaussianity constraints, and parameter-level agreement of simple slow-roll models with the data.
what we infer: The steelman's positive case, distinct from its critiques of CCC: the framework the reanalyses assume as the null is not a placeholder but the most precisely tested model in cosmology. Any CCC alternative must reproduce this scorecard before its distinctive signatures add net evidence (the debt recorded at CCC-C008).
limitations: Precision fit is not proof of inflation: the inflationary sector's parameters are fitted, not independently confirmed, and the tensor sector remains undetected (CCC-E021).

Planck Collaboration (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C010

Supports· strongCCC-E023

Study table: every CCC signature search invented its own signal model; the one derived fragment is a 2025 unrefereed preprint

what the source states: Across twelve search rows spanning 2010-2024, on both sides, the operative signal model — statistic, size window, thresholds, expected abundance — was supplied by the searchers, never derived from CCC (Hajian 2011 states the gap outright; Bodnia et al. 2024 make it the methodological synthesis). Each proponent significance (up to 6-sigma circles; 99.7% and 99.4% rings; 99.98% Hawking points) met an independent reanalysis that reproduced the features and dissolved the significance by varying a free choice the claim had fixed (ring radii, ellipticity procedure, spot-size marginalization: 99.98% falling to 87%). The only CCC-derived signal fragment — a mass-temperature relation — appears in a 2025 unrefereed preprint no search has yet used.
what we infer: CCC-C011 is the literature's own record, not an editorial judgment: no reported significance on either side was produced under a protocol fixed before the data were examined. The table neither establishes nor refutes the circles or Hawking points; it establishes that the dispute's recurring mechanism is an under-specified signal model, and that the preregistered search this case proposes (CCC-R001) now has exactly one derived fragment to bind to.
limitations: Two rows rest on ledger verification notes that characterize results partly through later papers of the same program, as those notes record.

This site (AI-authored project work held in the repository) (2026)AI-verified citationCCC-C011 CCC-C002 CCC-C004

Supports· moderateCCC-E001

Gurzadyan & Penrose 2010: concentric low-variance circles at up to 6σ

what the source states: Analysis of the WMAP 7-year maps "does indeed reveal such concentric circles, of up to 6σ significance," with the same analysis applied to BOOMERanG98 data "eliminating the possibility of an instrumental cause for the effects." The authors state these observational predictions of CCC "would not be easily explained within standard inflationary cosmology."
what we infer: The founding detection claim of the observational program. Its strength here is capped at moderate despite the headline 6σ because the significance was computed against the pure-Gaussian-plus-noise ensemble that every subsequent independent reanalysis identifies as the inadequate null (CCC-C003) — and the paper itself was never journal-published.
limitations: Preprint only; the significance methodology was never refereed in this form.
Authored by the theory's originator and his collaborator.
The cross-instrument (BOOMERanG) check addresses instrumental artifacts, not the null-ensemble objection.

Gurzadyan, V. G. (2010)AI-verified citationCCC-C001 CCC-C002 CCC-C009

Supports· moderateCCC-E006

Gurzadyan & Penrose 2013: the sky-twist test and the anisotropy of concentric sets

what the source states: "A new 'sky-twist' procedure, directly analysing WMAP data, without appeal to simulations, shows that the prevalence of these concentric sets depends on the rings being circular, rather than even slightly elliptical, numbers dropping off dramatically with increasing ellipticity. This is consistent with CCC's expectations; so also is the crucial fact that whereas some of the rings' radii are found to reach around 15°, none exceed 20°." The paper also reports a "highly non-isotropic" distribution of concentric sets.
what we infer: The proponents' most substantive structural argument: it sidesteps the ensemble dispute by comparing the real sky against distorted versions of itself. If the circle features were generic products of the search procedure, mild ellipticity should not collapse them. No independent group has replicated the sky-twist test under artifact screening and proper masks — an open item the research agenda targets (CCC-R001).
limitations: The test statistic and its expected behavior under the null were introduced in the same paper that reports its success — an a-posteriori construction (CCC-C011).
Bodnia et al. 2024 report that few-pixel spots also produce concentric circle sets, which could interact with the ellipticity comparison in unassessed ways.

Gurzadyan, V. G. (2013)AI-verified citationCCC-C002 CCC-C503 CCC-C504

Supports· moderateCCC-E009

An, Meissner, Nurowski & Penrose 2020: Hawking points at 99.98%, co-located in Planck and WMAP

what the source states: The paper reports "numerous previously unobserved anomalous circular spots, of significantly raised temperature" with angular radii between 0.03 and 0.04 radians and "a clear cut-off at that size," found "at a 99.98% confidence level" against 10,000 simulations; "the five strongest anomalous regions of the Planck map were found to occupy precisely the same locations as five of the strongest locations found in the WMAP data," and the authors argue that "Planck and WMAP have very different noise properties and it seems exceedingly unlikely that the observed presence of anomalous points in the same directions on both maps may come entirely from the noise."
what we infer: The program's strongest published claim, in a mainstream astronomy journal. Two components should be weighed separately: the headline significance (which Jow & Scott's marginalization removes, CCC-E010) and the cross-instrument co-location of the top spots (which survives as an unexplained observation — though co-location is expected if the spots are real features of the shared sky, artifact or not, since both instruments observe the same CMB).
limitations: The ring size defining the statistic was selected after inspecting the data — the specific defect the independent reanalysis corrects.
All four authors are CCC proponents.
Cross-map co-location distinguishes sky features from instrument noise, but not previous-aeon signals from ΛCDM fluctuations or data artifacts present in both maps.

An, D. (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C004 CCC-C009

Supports· moderateCCC-E013

The proponents' rejoinder inside the 2020 paper: critiques show need for better analysis, not absence of signal

what the source states: Addressing the circle critiques, the paper argues that DeAbreu et al. "did not, however, repeat the further analysis actually given by Gurzadyan and Penrose," that their objection to the sky-twist procedure rests on "a point which is actually irrelevant to the analysis," and that the earlier null claims (Wehus & Eriksen, Hajian) "are not demonstrations that such signals do not actually exist, but indicate that a more sophisticated analysis is needed."
what we infer: Filed under the methodological crux rather than the anomaly claims: the passage documents how each side treats the other's analyses as missing the point — nulls are answered with new statistics, new statistics with new nulls — which is the pattern CCC-C011 names and the preregistration agenda (CCC-R001) is designed to break.
limitations: Quoted from the proponents' side; the critics' parallel framing appears in their own abstracts (CCC-E003, CCC-E008).

An, D. (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C011

Supports· moderateCCC-E042

Allen 2020 §III: the direct graviton background from Planck-mass erebon decay is ~95 orders of magnitude below LIGO's limit

what the source states: The source states that, for erebons decaying to two gravitons, 'since the lifetime τ must be greater than the Hubble time, we find Ω_GW(25 Hz) < 2 × 10⁻¹⁰³. Comparing with the current observational limit in Sec. II shows that this is below detectability in LIGO by about 95 orders of magnitude', the limit being the O1+O2 bound Ω₀ < 4 × 10⁻⁸.
what we infer: Directly addresses the mechanism Penrose invoked (decay into gravitational radiation) under a homogeneous cosmological population; the result concerns a stochastic background, not the impulsive individual events Penrose describes, so it is undermining rather than decisive.
limitations: Stochastic-background calculation; does not model an individual nearby impulsive event.
Assumes homogeneous cosmological dark matter; Penrose stresses galactic concentrations ~100× denser.
Second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-10, run 2026-09-10-verify-ccc-192550, verify-v5) found the passage bears on CCC-C519 and not on CCC-C505; the link dropped at intake: The quoted passage matches the source exactly and is correctly located in §III on p.2, and it fairly restates the direct-spectrum result of Eq.(5) without overreach. However, this passage concerns only the 'direct' graviton spectrum, a distinct and much smaller contribution than the 'memory effect' (indirect) mechanism discussed in §IV that actually bears on Penrose's claim about correlated impulsive LIGO noise (CCC-C505); the record's link to C505 is unsupported by this locator, so only C519 is retained. For C519 the passage does not 'undermine' anything—it is the direct source of the very figures the claim states—so the correct direction is 'supports' rather than 'undermines'.
Direction set to "supports" (from "undermines") by the second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-10, run 2026-09-10-verify-ccc-192550, verify-v5) at intake: The quoted passage matches the source exactly and is correctly located in §III on p.2, and it fairly restates the direct-spectrum result of Eq.(5) without overreach. However, this passage concerns only the 'direct' graviton spectrum, a distinct and much smaller contribution than the 'memory effect' (indirect) mechanism discussed in §IV that actually bears on Penrose's claim about correlated impulsive LIGO noise (CCC-C505); the record's link to C505 is unsupported by this locator, so only C519 is retained. For C519 the passage does not 'undermine' anything—it is the direct source of the very figures the claim states—so the correct direction is 'supports' rather than 'undermines'.

Bruce Allen (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C519

Supports· moderateCCC-E049

Jow & Scott 2020 §3.1: no anomalous clustering of the most significant Hawking points — part 4

what the source states: From 100 Gaussian simulations drawn from the Planck best-fit power spectrum, the distribution of the mean nearest-neighbour distance at both scales is roughly Gaussian "with mean 0 . 20 and σ = 0 . 03".
what we infer: This is the Hawking-point analogue of the ring-centre anisotropy argument (CCC-C504) and is the only independent test of a proponent clustering claim on the record; I keep it on its own claim rather than folding it into CCC-C504, which concerns a different feature population.
limitations: Only 100 simulations for the clustering statistic; only the top 30 points at two scales.

Jow, D. L. (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C509

Supports· moderateCCC-E050

Jow & Scott 2020 §3.1: no anomalous clustering of the most significant Hawking points — part 5

what the source states: For both scales the data value lies within 1σ of the Gaussian expectation, so there is no evidence that HPs exhibit anomalous clustering: "we do not find any evidence that HPs exhibit" clustering beyond that of a Gaussian sky.
what we infer: This is the Hawking-point analogue of the ring-centre anisotropy argument (CCC-C504) and is the only independent test of a proponent clustering claim on the record; I keep it on its own claim rather than folding it into CCC-C504, which concerns a different feature population.
limitations: Only 100 simulations for the clustering statistic; only the top 30 points at two scales.

Jow, D. L. (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C509

Supports· moderateCCC-E055

Jow & Scott 2020 §4: the CCC prediction has been revised three times; only an a-priori precise prediction could have escaped the marginalization — part 5

what the source states: Alternatively, the conclusion could only have been avoided if "the predictions of CCC could have been made much more precise" before looking at the data.
what we infer: A critic's account of the shifting signal model, consistent with the study table (CCC-E023); it is the proponents' opponents describing them, so it is credible on the sequence of published claims and not independent on the moral.
limitations: Adversarial source on the interpretive point.

Jow, D. L. (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C011

Supports· moderateCCC-E056

Bielewicz et al. 2013: anomalous ring variances trace to the known low-order-multipole anomalies — part 1

what the source states: The deficit of power for concentric rings with larger radii "is yet another manifestation of the well-known anomalous CMB distribution" on large angular scales.
what we infer: Supports the conventional attribution (CCC-C010) with a positive mechanism for the large-radius and clustering features rather than a bare null. It is a mixed support: it accepts a ~95%-level large-scale oddity and attributes it to anomalies that predate and do not require CCC.
limitations: The low-ℓ anomalies are themselves unexplained; this relocates rather than resolves the oddity.

P. Bielewicz (2013)AI-verified citationCCC-C010 CCC-C523 CCC-C524 CCC-C525

Supports· moderateCCC-E057

Bielewicz et al. 2013: anomalous ring variances trace to the known low-order-multipole anomalies — part 4

what the source states: The anomalous variances in rings "can be traced to the presence of anomalous low-order multipoles" of the WMAP maps.
what we infer: Supports the conventional attribution (CCC-C010) with a positive mechanism for the large-radius and clustering features rather than a bare null. It is a mixed support: it accepts a ~95%-level large-scale oddity and attributes it to anomalies that predate and do not require CCC.
limitations: The low-ℓ anomalies are themselves unexplained; this relocates rather than resolves the oddity.
Second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-10, run 2026-09-10-verify-ccc-192550, verify-v5) found the passage bears on a proposed claim not admitted at intake ('The deficit of variance in large-radius rings…') and not on CCC-C010; the link dropped at intake: The quoted conclusion matches the paper's own conclusion section verbatim in substance and is correctly located; it directly supports the proposed claim not admitted at intake's claim that the ring-variance anomalies trace to known low-ℓ multipole anomalies rather than pre-Big-Bang structure. However, the paper's finding concerns anomalous low-order multipoles as a physical/statistical feature of the sky, not the broader 'a-posteriori statistics/look-elsewhere effects' mechanism named in CCC-C010, so it does not bear on that claim and is dropped from the link list.

P. Bielewicz (2013)AI-verified citationCCC-C523 CCC-C524 CCC-C525

Supports· moderateCCC-E064

Penrose 2017: a specified, never-executed test — correlated noise at the Andromeda time delay — part 1

what the source states: In this description the black-hole encounter is almost irrelevant, "serving merely to locate an individual galaxy in the sky".
what we infer: CCC-C505 currently records a conjecture; the source also specifies a concrete search protocol. That protocol is the item CCC-R002 could freeze — though Allen 2020 (CCC-E042, CCC-E069, CCC-E070, CCC-E071, CCC-E072) now argues its expected yield is negligible under the emission mechanism Penrose describes.
limitations: No amplitude, rate, or statistic is specified; the source calls the erebon lifetime 'The main uncertainty in the scheme'.
Second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-10, run 2026-09-10-verify-ccc-192550, verify-v5) found the passage bears on CCC-C505 and not on a proposed claim not admitted at intake ('Penrose (2017) specified a test of the erebon–noise conjecture…'); the link dropped at intake: The quote is accurately reproduced and used in context to show that the black-hole merger event is incidental to the erebon-decay noise hypothesis, supporting CCC-C505's account of the conjecture. However, it does not itself specify the Andromeda-galaxy test described in the proposed claim not admitted at intake—the sentence merely sets up that specification, which appears afterward—so the record's link to the proposed claim not admitted at intake is dropped and it is admitted as bearing only on CCC-C505. The locator is close enough (same paragraph spanning p.3–4) to be acceptable.

Penrose, R. (2017)AI-verified citationCCC-C505

Supports· weakCCC-E007

Meissner, Nurowski & Ruszczycki 2013: ring-type structures at 99.7%

what the source states: "We compare the actual WMAP maps with artificial, purely statistical maps of the same harmonic content to argue that there are, with confidence level 99.7%, ring-type structures in the observed cosmic microwave background."
what we infer: A different statistic from a different (Warsaw) group reporting a significant ring effect in a Royal Society venue. Weight is limited by the group's proximity to the program — Meissner and Nurowski later co-author the Hawking-points paper with Penrose — and by the same a-posteriori statistic concern that attaches to the whole exchange.
limitations: Proponent-adjacent group; not an independent replication in the sense of Wehus & Eriksen or Hajian.
'Maps of the same harmonic content' sidesteps rather than settles the ensemble dispute: the comparison preserves the power spectrum but the statistic and threshold were chosen post hoc.

Meissner, K. A. (2013)AI-verified citationCCC-C002 CCC-C501

Supports· weakCCC-E052

Jow & Scott 2020 §3.2: no persistent E-mode polarization structure at Hawking-point locations — part 4

what the source states: In the E-mode stacks, "there does not appear to be any corresponding structure" at the HP locations.
what we infer: Negative evidence of low diagnosticity, recorded under the negative-evidence policy: the source itself notes that 'Without a precise prediction for the polarization profiles of HPs, it is not possible to search for specific features', so CCC is not tested by this null. Its value is that any future CCC polarization prediction now has a stated null to meet.
limitations: CCC makes no polarization prediction; the null constrains nothing in the theory as currently stated.
Visual assessment of stacks; no quantitative limit given.

Jow, D. L. (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C510

Supports· weakCCC-E053

Jow & Scott 2020 §3.2: no persistent E-mode polarization structure at Hawking-point locations — part 5

what the source states: In addition to no statistically significant HP signal in the CMB temperature, there is "no evidence for a corresponding signal in polarization".
what we infer: Negative evidence of low diagnosticity, recorded under the negative-evidence policy: the source itself notes that 'Without a precise prediction for the polarization profiles of HPs, it is not possible to search for specific features', so CCC is not tested by this null. Its value is that any future CCC polarization prediction now has a stated null to meet.
limitations: CCC makes no polarization prediction; the null constrains nothing in the theory as currently stated.
Visual assessment of stacks; no quantitative limit given.

Jow, D. L. (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C510

Undermines

14 records · strongest first

Records that count against a rung — shown with the same structure and seriousness.

Undermines· strongCCC-E002

Wehus & Eriksen 2011: rings reproduced; simulations disagree; sky consistent with ΛCDM

what the source states: An independent search employing both χ² statistics and matched filters: "We do reproduce the claimed ring structures observed in the WMAP data as presented by Gurzadyan and Penrose, thereby verifying their computational procedures. However, the results from our simulations do not agree with those presented by Gurzadyan and Penrose. On the contrary we obtain a substantially larger variance in our simulations, to the extent that the observed WMAP sky maps are fully consistent with the LCDM model as measured by these statistics."
what we infer: Read against CCC-C001 this is a confirmation (the features are real outputs of the procedure); read against CCC-C002 it is a direct contradiction, and it localizes the disagreement precisely where CCC-C003 says it lives — in the simulated null, not in the data.
limitations: Uses ΛCDM-spectrum simulations, which the proponents dispute as the appropriate null (CCC-C003) — the force of this record depends on that methodological question.

Wehus, I. K. (2011)AI-verified citationCCC-C001 CCC-C002

Undermines· strongCCC-E003

Moss, Scott & Zibin 2011: the variations are entirely expected in a structured sky

what the source states: "We can indeed confirm that such variations do exist in the temperature variance for annuli around points in the data. However, we find that this variation is entirely expected in a sky which contains the usual CMB anisotropies. In other words, properly simulated Gaussian CMB data contain just the sorts of variations claimed. Gurzadyan & Penrose have not found evidence for pre-Big Bang phenomena, but have simply re-discovered that the CMB contains structure."
what we infer: Undermines the anomaly claim (CCC-C002) and supplies the rival thesis's slogan (CCC-C010). The direction here is logged against CCC-C002; the same record's confirmation of the features' existence is carried by CCC-E002's parallel finding rather than double-counted.
limitations: Same ensemble-choice dependence as all critical reanalyses (CCC-C003).
The paper also notes the low-variance circles are dominated by low-multipole structure, an explanatory detail not separately imported.

Moss, A. (2011)AI-verified citationCCC-C002 CCC-C010

Undermines· strongCCC-E004

Hajian 2011: with realistic anisotropic noise, all three circle families are unremarkable

what the source states: "We reassess the statistical significance of those circles by comparing with Monte Carlo simulations of the CMB sky with realistic modeling of the anisotropic noise in WMAP data. We find that the circles are not anomalous and that all three groups are consistent at 3sigma level with a Gaussian CMB sky as predicted by inflationary cosmology model."
what we infer: Closes the loophole that the earlier critiques might have mismodeled WMAP's spatially varying noise — the one technical objection the proponents' first response raised that a better simulation could answer. Three independent groups now reach the same verdict by different routes.
limitations: Tests the three specific circle families of the founding paper, not every later variant of the claim.

Hajian, A. (2011)AI-verified citationCCC-C002

Undermines· strongCCC-E008

DeAbreu, Contreras & Scott 2015: proponents' own parameters, Planck data, same verdict

what the source states: "We are able to reproduce the analysis these authors presented for data from the WMAP satellite and we confirm the existence of these apparently special directions in the newer Planck data. However, we also find that these features are present at the same level of abundance in simulated Gaussian CMB skies, i.e. they are entirely consistent with the predictions of the standard cosmological model."
what we infer: Methodologically the strictest of the circle reanalyses: it froze the search parameters to the proponents' own published choices (a de facto prespecification), extended the search to Planck data, and still found the features at chance abundance. The proponents' published response is that it did not repeat the sky-twist ellipticity test and did not explain the anisotropy of the centers — both true, both recorded (CCC-E006, CCC-C504).
limitations: Did not test the sky-twist/ellipticity statistic, which the proponents regard as their strongest point.

DeAbreu, A. (2015)AI-verified citationCCC-C001 CCC-C002

Undermines· strongCCC-E010

Jow & Scott 2020: marginalize over ring size and the 99.98% becomes 87%

what the source states: "We investigate recent claims for a detection of 'Hawking points'... at the 99.98% confidence level. We find that, after marginalization over the size of the rings, an excess is detected in Planck satellite maps at only an 87% confidence level (i.e., little more than 1σ). Therefore, we conclude that there is no statistically significant evidence for the presence of Hawking points in the CMB."
what we infer: A textbook look-elsewhere correction: the proponents searched a family of ring sizes but quoted significance for the best one. This is the cleanest single demonstration in the case that the headline numbers live in the analysis choices — the data are unchanged; only the accounting for the search is.
limitations: Does not address the Planck–WMAP co-location argument.
An 87% excess is a residue, not a zero; the record honestly leaves ~1σ on the table.

Jow, D. L. (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C004 CCC-C010

Undermines· strongCCC-E012

Bodnia et al. 2024: few-pixel spots manufacture the signatures; nulls at full resolution

what the source states: A maximum-resolution search of Planck and WMAP data: "We find that spots consisting of a few unusually bright (high-temperature) or dark (low-temperature) pixels, erroneously lead to regions with many low-variance circles, and consequently sets of near-concentric low-variance circles, when applying the search criteria used in previous work. After removing those spots from the data, no statistically significant low-variance circles can be found." HawkingNet, a ResNet18-based search, likewise finds no significant Hawking points, and the authors state that spots "with a magnitude in the range from 100 to 400 µK amplitude and spatial Gaussian extend between 0.7 and 1.2 degrees... can be ruled out." They add: "The absence of such statistically-significant distinct features in the currently available CMB data does not disprove the CCC model, but implies that higher resolution CMB data and/or refined CCC based predictions are needed."
what we infer: The most consequential record in the case: it does not merely fail to confirm the signatures, it identifies the generating mechanism for false positives under the proponents' own criterion (anomalous few-pixel spots inflating the local baseline variance) and publishes open-source code. It also models the epistemics this site asks for — an explicit statement of what its null does and does not establish, and a call for quantitative predictions (taken up as CCC-R005).
limitations: The ruled-out Hawking-point amplitude/size box is specific to the assumed Gaussian profile; fainter or differently shaped imprints are unconstrained.
The artifact diagnosis explains false circles around anomalous spots; it does not by itself account for every concentric family reported earlier.

Bodnia, E. (2024)AI-verified citationCCC-C002 CCC-C004 CCC-C010

Undermines· moderateCCC-E011

López et al. 2022: purpose-built ring detector finds no significant structures

what the source states: A ring-detection method validated on an artificial dataset of Hawking points constructed according to CCC ("we were able to retrieve 95% of ring-like anomalies from it") was applied to Planck maps and compared against ΛCDM simulations: "Even though no significant ring-like structures were observed, we report the largest excess of HP candidates found at α = 1% significance level for the analyzed sky maps (CMB at 70GHz, SEVEM, SMICA, and Commander-Ruler)."
what we infer: An independent group that built a detector demonstrably capable of finding CCC-style Hawking points (95% retrieval on synthetic signals) and then failed to find a significant population in the real sky — which answers the objection that critics' methods might simply be insensitive to the predicted signal. The honestly reported 1%-level candidate excess is the kind of residue only a preregistered follow-up can adjudicate.
limitations: The synthetic training signals encode one specific reading of CCC's qualitative prediction; a different profile assumption could change sensitivity.

López, M. (2022)AI-verified citationCCC-C004

Undermines· moderateCCC-E017

Eckstein 2023: information loss raises entropy instead of resetting it

what the source states: "We show that the assumed loss of degrees of freedom in black holes is not compatible with the quantum notion of entropy." The paper argues that information loss as Penrose describes it "leads to the increase of global entropy," which "undermines the idea of 'entropy renormalisation' needed to match the degrees of freedom on the crossover hypersurface between the aeons," and proposes a unitary variant of CCC in which quantum information is globally preserved.
what we infer: A direct published attack on the entropy accounting (CCC-C006), from an author engaged enough to repair rather than dismiss the framework. If the argument holds, CCC's answer to its own motivating question — why each aeon starts with low entropy — fails in its original form, independent of anything in the CMB.
limitations: One analysis in a live quantum-gravity controversy; Penrose's information-loss position has its own defenders.
The proposed unitary variant preserves CCC's observational program, so this record bears on the mechanism, not the sky claims.

Eckstein, M. (2023)AI-verified citationCCC-C006

Undermines· moderateCCC-E037

Bielewicz et al. 2013: no significant number of unusually extreme variances at the two special points over 0–90°

what the source states: The source states that for the rings centred at (l,b) = (105°,37°) and (252°,−31°) over radii 0–90°, 'Comparing the observed profiles with simulations based on the standard ΛCDM model we do not identify any significant number of unusually extreme values of the variance in good agreement with the conclusions in Hajian (2011); Moss, Scott, & Zibin (2011); Wehus & Eriksen (2011)', extending that conclusion 'to the full range of ring radii from 0 to 90 degrees'.
what we infer: A fifth independent reanalysis placing the two Gurzadyan–Penrose exemplar directions within the ΛCDM range; the assessment's count of 'four independent reanalyses' should be raised accordingly when the record is next assessed.
limitations: Ring width fixed at 0.5°; the source notes CCC gives no established prediction for ring width.

P. Bielewicz (2013)AI-verified citationCCC-C002

Undermines· moderateCCC-E058

Bielewicz et al. 2013: rings with low variance cluster in a few large regions, which the authors judge inconsistent with CCC — part 1

what the source states: Any other point in the region near the north Ecliptic pole containing (l, b) = (105°, 37°) "shows a similar number of unusually low variance rings".
what we infer: The argument depends on the authors' reading that CCC predicts randomly distributed ring centres; proponents later read the clustering as previous-aeon superclusters (CCC-C504). The two readings are incompatible predictions from the same theory, which is itself evidence for CCC-C011's point that the signal model is under-specified.
limitations: Relies on an interpretation of CCC's prediction (random centres) that proponents dispute.
Also states that the observed 'few rings with variance bigger than the mean for radii larger than 10°' is inconsistent with a collision series producing only some low rings ([p. 5]).

P. Bielewicz (2013)AI-verified citationCCC-C009

Undermines· moderateCCC-E059

Bielewicz et al. 2013: rings with low variance cluster in a few large regions, which the authors judge inconsistent with CCC — part 2

what the source states: Such a clustering of rings with low variance "is not consistent with the conformal cyclic cosmology scenario".
what we infer: The argument depends on the authors' reading that CCC predicts randomly distributed ring centres; proponents later read the clustering as previous-aeon superclusters (CCC-C504). The two readings are incompatible predictions from the same theory, which is itself evidence for CCC-C011's point that the signal model is under-specified.
limitations: Relies on an interpretation of CCC's prediction (random centres) that proponents dispute.
Also states that the observed 'few rings with variance bigger than the mean for radii larger than 10°' is inconsistent with a collision series producing only some low rings ([p. 5]).

P. Bielewicz (2013)AI-verified citationCCC-C009

Undermines· moderateCCC-E060

Bielewicz et al. 2013: rings with low variance cluster in a few large regions, which the authors judge inconsistent with CCC — part 4

what the source states: Taken together, "our results are not consistent with the conformal cyclic cosmology scenario".
what we infer: The argument depends on the authors' reading that CCC predicts randomly distributed ring centres; proponents later read the clustering as previous-aeon superclusters (CCC-C504). The two readings are incompatible predictions from the same theory, which is itself evidence for CCC-C011's point that the signal model is under-specified.
limitations: Relies on an interpretation of CCC's prediction (random centres) that proponents dispute.
Also states that the observed 'few rings with variance bigger than the mean for radii larger than 10°' is inconsistent with a collision series producing only some low rings ([p. 5]).

P. Bielewicz (2013)AI-verified citationCCC-C009

Undermines· moderateCCC-E067

Nielsen et al. 2019: after subtracting the maximum-likelihood waveform, no significant Hanford–Livingston residual correlation at GW150914 — part 1

what the source states: Using the Pearson cross-correlation statistic of Liu and Jackson and Creswell et al., after subtracting the maximum likelihood waveform "there are no statistically significant correlations between the residuals" of the Hanford and Livingston detectors at the time of GW150914.
what we infer: Removes the empirical premise of CCC-C505 on this analysis: the correlation Penrose sought to explain is attributed to an imperfect template, not to the noise. It says nothing about erebons directly; diagnosticity toward CCC runs only through the premise.
limitations: Authors are LIGO-affiliated; the test relies on a GR waveform to construct residuals, which Ulhoa et al. 2026 (CCC-E077) argue is circular for this purpose.
Single event (GW150914) and 512 s of data.

Alex B. Nielsen (2019)AI-verified citationCCC-C505

Undermines· moderateCCC-E069

Allen 2020 §IV: even the larger 'memory-effect' background misses LIGO detectability by 35 orders of magnitude — part 2

what the source states: Despite dominating the direct part, the indirect contribution is still very small: in comparison with current LIGO limits, Ω_GW(25 Hz) < 6.7 × 10⁻⁴³ "misses detectability by 35 orders of magnitude".
what we infer: Together with CCC-E042 this converts CCC-R002 from 'nobody has looked' to 'the one quantitative calculation says a search would find nothing unless a different emission mechanism is specified'.
limitations: Same model limitations as CCC-E042.
Direction set to "supports" (from "undermines") by the second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-10, run 2026-09-10-verify-ccc-192550, verify-v5) at intake: The quoted figure and phrase appear exactly at p.4 in the paragraph on the Planck-mass erebon memory-effect spectrum, and the statement is a faithful, non-exaggerated restatement of Allen's result. However, labeling this 'undermines' is only correct for CCC-C505 (it shows Penrose's erebon-decay GW conjecture is far below detectability); for a proposed claim not admitted at intake ('The gravitational-wave memory-effect background…'), which simply asserts this same Ω_GW value and 35-orders-of-magnitude gap, the source directly supports rather than undermines the claim, since it is the origin of that exact number.

Bruce Allen (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C505

Qualifies

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Records that narrow, complicate, or bound what another record can carry.

Qualifies· moderateCCC-E016

Tod 2022: the sympathetic open-problems inventory

what the source states: Tod's question list for CCC includes: "Can one implement mass fade-out? (Massless charged particles are usually regarded as problematical.)" — and, on the perturbation spectrum, whether one can "make sense of the statement inflation happens before the Bang, in the previous aeon? And if so, can one then derive the familiar spectrum of density perturbations?" The note also reviews Penrose's "delayed rest mass hypothesis" and alternative choices for fixing the conformal factor.
what we infer: Qualifies the mechanism rung from the friendliest competent quarter: the relativist who built CCC's mathematical machinery treats mass fade-out and the perturbation spectrum as open problems, not solved ones. This is the honest midpoint between proponent confidence and dismissal.
limitations: An unrefereed talk write-up, though by the field's central technical contributor.

Tod, P. (2022)AI-verified citationCCC-C005 CCC-C006

Qualifies· moderateCCC-E021

BICEP/Keck 2021: still no primordial B-modes (r < 0.036)

what the source states: The combined BICEP/Keck, Planck, and WMAP analysis through the 2018 observing season constrains the tensor-to-scalar ratio to r < 0.036 at 95% confidence, with no detection of primordial gravitational-wave B-modes.
what we infer: Qualifies the inflationary steelman rather than supporting CCC: the one signature that would evidence an inflationary era in our own aeon directly remains unseen, so the discriminating measurement between the two frameworks (CCC-R003) is still open in both directions. Recorded symmetrically: a future detection would create a signal CCC has no mechanism for; continued nulls constrain inflationary models without confirming CCC.
limitations: Many viable inflation models predict r below current sensitivity, so the null does not currently damage the steelman.

Ade, P. A. R. (2021)AI-verified citationCCC-C010 CCC-C008

Qualifies· moderateCCC-E022

Meissner & Penrose 2025: a gravitational-wave epoch, crossover conservation law, and a mass–temperature relation for Hawking spots

what the source states: The paper introduces a "gravitational wave epoch" (GWE) during which the aeon-to-aeon crossover occurs naturally; derives, using 2-spinor and twistor techniques, a mass-energy conservation law holding across the crossover surface; argues the temperature rise within observed Hawking spots should be effectively determined by the total mass of the pre-crossover galactic cluster, in quantitative agreement with the largest clusters observed in our own aeon; and attributes the spots' observed angular diameter — about twice what should have been expected — to the GWE period just after crossover. It cites the 2020 An–Meissner–Nurowski–Penrose detection as "impressive observational evidence."
what we infer: Filed as "qualifies," cutting differently against each attached claim. On the crossover physics (CCC-C005): genuine theoretical progress — a derived conservation law is more than the "admittedly unconventional hypothesis" the claim records, though the rest-mass fade-out mechanism itself remains unsupplied. On the attribution claim (CCC-C009): the paper defends the interpretation of the 2020 signal without engaging the statistical critiques that contradicted it — Jow & Scott's marginalization (CCC-E010-line) and Bodnia et al.'s few-pixel screening are not answered, and a signal's detailed properties cannot be evidence while its statistical existence is unrehabilitated. The angular-diameter resolution — a factor-of-two discrepancy absorbed by introducing a new epoch after the observation — repeats the post-hoc pattern the critics name, whatever its ultimate merits. On the preregistration claim (CCC-C011): the mass–temperature relation is the first piece of the quantitative signal model that CCC-R005 demands and Bodnia et al. said was missing; if the program follows through with expected abundance, amplitude distribution, and profile, a preregistered search could finally bind both sides.
limitations: Unreviewed preprint; abstract-level characterization plus correspondent summary — full text not audited for this import.
Quantitative agreement with cluster masses is the authors' own claim; no independent check of the calculation exists yet.

Meissner, K. A. (2025)AI-verified citationCCC-C005 CCC-C009 CCC-C011

Qualifies· moderateCCC-E054

Jow & Scott 2020 §3: a third of the Hawking-point excess at the claimed scales comes from the single most significant point — part 1

what the source states: Recomputing A⁻ at the scales (0.01, 0.02) and (0.01, 0.03) while omitting the single point with the highest |â| gives A⁻(0.01,0.02) = 5.50 and A⁻(0.01,0.03) = 4.13, so "about a third of the signal at these scales comes from the single most significant points".
what we infer: Independently of the look-elsewhere correction, the reported excess is dominated by two individual features; this is a distinct fragility from the 99.98%→87% marginalization already recorded in CCC-E010 and is consistent with the few-feature dependence Bodnia et al. later diagnosed (CCC-E012).
limitations: Computed on Planck 2018 SMICA, whereas An et al. used 2015 data; Jow & Scott note minor location/rank differences between the analyses.

Jow, D. L. (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C004

Qualifies· weakCCC-E072

Allen 2020: the calculation constrains erebon GW detectability, not erebons as dark matter — part 4

what the source states: The calculated GW background from erebon decay is "far too weak to observe with LIGO or other instruments".
what we infer: CCC-C007 bundles the dark-matter identification with the detector-signal prediction; Allen's result bears only on the latter and leaves the former untouched. Recorded as qualifying so the negative result is not silently read as a verdict on the whole erebon hypothesis.
limitations: Narrow-model result by construction.

Bruce Allen (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C007

Context

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Background that informs the case without pushing either way.

Context· moderateCCC-E014

CCC stated in 2006, before any circle search: the priority record

what the source states: The 2006 proceedings paper presents CCC in full outline: "With conformal invariance both in the remote future and at the Big-Bang origin, we can try to argue that the two situations are physically identical, so the remote future of one phase of the universe becomes the Big Bang of the next."
what we infer: Establishes that the theory precedes the data claims by four years — the circles were presented in 2010 as predictions of an existing framework, not a pattern found first and theorized after. This matters for fairness: whatever the statistics of the searches, CCC is not a just-so story fitted to known anomalies. The specific quantitative signatures, however, were never specified in advance (CCC-C011).
limitations: Priority of the framework is not priority of the specific statistical signatures; ring abundance, amplitude, and profile were not predicted in 2006.

Penrose, R. (2006)AI-verified citationCCC-C009

Context· moderateCCC-E048

Jow & Scott 2020 §3.1: no anomalous clustering of the most significant Hawking points — part 1

what the source states: An et al. claim that clustering of Hawking points on the sky could be further evidence for CCC, since one might expect the distribution of supermassive black holes in the previous aeon to be highly clustered: "clustering of these features could be further evidence of CCC".
what we infer: This is the Hawking-point analogue of the ring-centre anisotropy argument (CCC-C504) and is the only independent test of a proponent clustering claim on the record; I keep it on its own claim rather than folding it into CCC-C504, which concerns a different feature population.
limitations: Only 100 simulations for the clustering statistic; only the top 30 points at two scales.
Direction set to "context" (from "supports") by the second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-10, run 2026-09-10-verify-ccc-192550, verify-v5) at intake: The quoted passage merely restates An et al.'s motivating claim that clustering would support CCC; it is background framing for the section, not Jow & Scott's actual clustering finding (no anomalous clustering) that CCC-C509 asserts. As such it does not itself support or undermine CCC-C509's specific quantitative finding, but simply provides context for why the analysis was performed.

Jow, D. L. (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C509

Context· moderateCCC-E061

Bielewicz et al. 2013: regional clustering of low-variance rings is attributable to large-angular-scale features — part 1

what the source states: Clustering of low variance rings in relatively large regions of the sky points to large-scale features rather than randomly placed ring centres: "Clustering of the rings in relatively large regions rather indicates effects related to large angular scale features in the CMB maps".
what we infer: Offers a conventional mechanism for exactly the kind of centre concentration An et al. 2020 later quantified as 83% in 3% of sky; it does not test that figure (predates it and uses a different statistic), so it qualifies rather than undermines CCC-C504. A direct test is proposed in research CCC-R007.
limitations: Predates An et al. 2020; different statistic (number of extreme-variance rings per centre, not concentric-triple centres).
Direction set to "context" (from "qualifies") by the second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-10, run 2026-09-10-verify-ccc-192550, verify-v5) at intake: The quote is accurate and matches its context on p.7, and the locator range spanning the rotation test and later figures is reasonable given the extended discussion. However, CCC-C504 is a narrow factual claim about An et al. (2020)'s specific 1134-center, 83%-in-3%-of-sky finding, an entirely different dataset and statistic (concentric-triple centers) from Bielewicz et al.'s own two-point clustering discussion; the record's own limitations note this difference. Because Bielewicz et al. cannot condition or qualify the accuracy of a later, methodologically distinct study's reported numbers, the passage is better read as background context on how ring clustering can arise from large-scale CMB features rather than a direct qualification of An et al.'s finding.

P. Bielewicz (2013)AI-verified citationCCC-C504

Context· weakCCC-E019

Penrose 2017: the LIGO-noise conjecture

what the source states: Responding to a report of correlated noise between the two LIGO detectors with the same time delay as the gravitational-wave signals, the note proposes "that what seems to be spuriously generated noise may in fact be gravitational events caused by the decay of dark-matter particles (erebons) of mass around 10^-5g."
what we infer: Context for the erebon prediction's one contact with existing instrument data. The underlying correlated-noise claim (Cresswell et al.) was disputed and largely deflated in subsequent LIGO analyses, and no erebon-specific search was ever published — the conjecture remains exactly that.
limitations: Unrefereed; premised on a contested noise analysis; no follow-up.

Penrose, R. (2017)AI-verified citationCCC-C007 CCC-C505

Context· weakCCC-E028

Jow & Scott 2020 §2: instrumental noise does not contribute significantly to the Hawking-point signal

what the source states: The source states that 'adding the Planck half-difference maps as an estimate of the noise to the simulations did not alter the estimated probability distributions', so the authors 'conclude that instrumental noise does not contribute significantly to the HP signal at the scales we are considering'.
what we infer: Bears on the cross-map (WMAP/Planck) co-location argument that the article leaves standing: if noise is negligible at Hawking-point scales, any strong feature of the CMB signal must appear in both instruments under every hypothesis, ΛCDM included, so co-location establishes the spots are on the sky and nothing further. I rate this weak toward CCC-C004 because it does not touch the significance number itself.
limitations: Jow & Scott do not themselves discuss the WMAP co-location; the inference about it is mine.
Direction set to "context" (from "qualifies") by the second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-10, run 2026-09-10-verify-ccc-192550, verify-v5) at intake: The quoted passage only rules out instrumental noise as a confound in estimating the probability distribution of gradient values; it does not bear on whether the 99.98% confidence detection of Hawking points holds up, which is what CCC-C004 asserts. It neither supports nor limits the specific confidence-level claim, so it functions as background methodological context rather than a qualification of the claim's content.

Jow, D. L. (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C004

Context· weakCCC-E051

Jow & Scott 2020 §3.2: no persistent E-mode polarization structure at Hawking-point locations — part 1

what the source states: Stacking the Planck 2018 SMICA temperature and E-mode maps was performed around all HPs in the temperature map with |â| > 2, i.e., "a 2 σ significance threshold, for the scales" (r1, Δ) = (0.01, 0.02) and (0.01, 0.03).
what we infer: Negative evidence of low diagnosticity, recorded under the negative-evidence policy: the source itself notes that 'Without a precise prediction for the polarization profiles of HPs, it is not possible to search for specific features', so CCC is not tested by this null. Its value is that any future CCC polarization prediction now has a stated null to meet.
limitations: CCC makes no polarization prediction; the null constrains nothing in the theory as currently stated.
Visual assessment of stacks; no quantitative limit given.
Direction set to "context" (from "supports") by the second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-10, run 2026-09-10-verify-ccc-192550, verify-v5) at intake: The quoted passage only describes the stacking methodology (selection threshold, scales, procedure) and does not itself state the outcome that no persistent polarization structure was found; that finding appears elsewhere in the text (the following sentences about Figure 4). As written, this record's statement is procedural background rather than evidence supporting the no-signal claim, so it should be marked as context rather than supports.

Jow, D. L. (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C510

Context· weakCCC-E062

Creswell et al. 2017: the premise Penrose adopted — LIGO noise correlations maximized at the event's own time lag — part 1

what the source states: For GW150914, correlations in the detector noise at the time of the event "happen to be maximized for the same time lag" as that found for the event itself.
what we infer: This is the empirical premise of CCC-C505, recorded so the chain is on the ledger; it says nothing about CCC or erebons, and its residual-correlation result was not reproduced by Nielsen et al. 2019 (CCC-E067). Zero diagnosticity for CCC on its own.
limitations: Uses the illustrative numerical-relativity template from the LIGO discovery paper rather than a maximum-likelihood waveform (per Nielsen et al.).
Direction set to "supports" (from "context") by the second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-10, run 2026-09-10-verify-ccc-192550, verify-v5) at intake: The quoted phrase and cited locators (abstract, §3.2, Fig. 7) accurately reflect Creswell et al.'s own finding that noise correlations peak at the same time lag as the GW150914 event, and this is a fair, non-inflated summary. However, for a proposed claim not admitted at intake ('Creswell et al. (2017) reported that the residual noise…') the passage is not merely 'context': it is the primary source directly asserting the very finding the claim describes, so the correct direction toward the proposed claim not admitted at intake is 'supports.' Toward CCC-C505 (Penrose's proposal), 'context' is reasonable since this paper does not discuss Penrose or erebons but merely supplies the empirical premise he later used. Both claims are still borne on by the passage, and the statement is a single, atomic proposition with no independence concerns since this is the original data-analysis paper, not a derivative report.

James Creswell (2017)AI-verified citationCCC-C505

Context· weakCCC-E070

Allen 2020: the calculation constrains erebon GW detectability, not erebons as dark matter — part 1

what the source states: The results apply to "any neutral scalar dark matter particle which decays into two massless particles".
what we infer: CCC-C007 bundles the dark-matter identification with the detector-signal prediction; Allen's result bears only on the latter and leaves the former untouched. Recorded as qualifying so the negative result is not silently read as a verdict on the whole erebon hypothesis.
limitations: Narrow-model result by construction.
Direction set to "context" (from "qualifies") by the second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-10, run 2026-09-10-verify-ccc-192550, verify-v5) at intake: The quote is accurately drawn from the introduction and reports Allen's generalization that his memory-effect calculation applies to any neutral scalar dark matter particle, not just erebons. This does not qualify or condition the truth of CCC-C007 (which asserts erebons decay and could register as GW signals); it merely notes that the physical mechanism is not unique to erebons, bearing on the topic without confirming, limiting, or denying the erebon-specific prediction. That makes it context rather than a qualifier.

Bruce Allen (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C007

Context· weakCCC-E071

Allen 2020: the calculation constrains erebon GW detectability, not erebons as dark matter — part 3

what the source states: Erebons "are not stable, but have a lifetime" τ which is longer than the Hubble time.
what we infer: CCC-C007 bundles the dark-matter identification with the detector-signal prediction; Allen's result bears only on the latter and leaves the former untouched. Recorded as qualifying so the negative result is not silently read as a verdict on the whole erebon hypothesis.
limitations: Narrow-model result by construction.
Direction set to "context" (from "qualifies") by the second reader (claude-sonnet-5, 2026-09-10, run 2026-09-10-verify-ccc-192550, verify-v5) at intake: The passage merely restates Penrose's model assumption (erebon lifetime exceeds Hubble time) as background for Allen's own calculation; it neither affirms nor limits the truth of CCC-C007, so it functions as context rather than a qualification. The quote is accurate and the locator correct, and it does bear on CCC-C007 as background description of the erebon model.

Bruce Allen (2020)AI-verified citationCCC-C007

Context· weakCCC-E077

Ulhoa et al. 2026: LIGO–Virgo event-window cross-correlation peaks indistinguishable from off-source noise in 26 of 27 pair-measurements — part 1

what the source states: In an analysis extending Creswell et al. to nine O2/O3 candidate events and all three detector pairs with a band-pass-only pipeline, "In 26 of 27 pair-measurements, the event peak is statistically indistinguishable" from the corresponding noise ensemble of N = 200 off-source windows.
what we infer: Recorded as context only: the paper never mentions CCC or erebons, and its background interpretation is the authors' own. It bears on CCC-C505 solely in keeping the question of correlated inter-detector structure open across instruments Penrose's conjecture did not consider; on its own it moves nothing.
limitations: Unrefereed preprint.
The statistic is shown by the source itself to be non-robust under whitening; the authors' interpretation departs from the LIGO–Virgo consensus.

S. C. Ulhoa (2026)AI-verified citationCCC-C505