Quantum interpretations
Applicability tests for interpretive frameworks.
Prephysics · Applicability Diagnostics
When is a physical description actually licensed?
The programme investigates the conditions that must be satisfied before theoretical constructions count as physically applicable — across quantum foundations, cosmology, AI claims and evidence theory.
L1–L3Three levels of description
A1–A6Six applicability conditions
PASS · OPEN · LoAThree diagnostic verdicts
Architecture
Applicability before interpretation
Prephysics is not a rival to physics. It is the methodological layer at which target, interface, domain, empirical basis, carrier structure and constraints are checked before an application is treated as licensed.
Research lines
One architecture, eight domains
The domains differ; the diagnostic question remains the same: which empirical and structural conditions support the inference at issue?
AI discovery claims
When machine-found regularities count as physics.
Origin strategies
What explanations of a beginning must presuppose.
Finality demands
Self-applicability of final-theory claims.
Standard cosmology
Licensing questions within GR+ΛCDM.
Quantum foundations
What no-go results establish about observation.
Evidence theory
What an experimental result does and does not license.
History of cosmology
Idealisation, changing roles and domains of validity.
Books
Three published monographs
The methodological framework, its cosmological application and the German-language public account.
Published
Prephysics: A Diagnostic Framework for Conditions of Physical Applicability
The methodological foundation: the Emergence Path, A1–A6, L1/L2/L3 and the PASS / OPEN / LoA verdict protocol.
2 April 2026411 pagesISBN 979-8253904121ASIN B0GW3BYBS6
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Published
Two Symptoms, One Failure
Dark matter and dark energy as possible coupled symptoms of an overextension of the FLRW framework.
15 April 2026245 pagesISBN 979-8257512681ASIN B0GXFMTWK4
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Published
Der blinde Fleck der Kosmologie
Dark matter, dark energy and a possible modelling error — the published German-language public-facing account of the cosmological diagnosis.
30 May 2026396 pagesISBN 979-8196482151ASIN B0H3GPG8VF
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Open access
Selected research papers
The DOI-linked papers form the programme’s open research basis.
1
Structural Preconditions of Physical Description
Seven structural preconditions for physical description and the foundation of the programme.
2
Levels of Description and Conditions of Applicability
The L1/L2/L3 architecture: applicability conditions, theoretical content and empirical application.
3
When Physical Applicability Fails
A diagnostic protocol for probabilistic claims.
Authors
Independent research with open documentation
Harald Zierhut leads the research programme; Thomas Schwarz contributes as co-author and analytical collaborator.
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