Kill Switches

KS-RM.1 — EM uniqueness as writer

Status: LIVE — EMPIRICAL.

Theorem 4.1 claims electromagnetic coupling via the electron is the dominant writer of durable configurable records at the chemical-biological scale.

Test: demonstrate a non-electromagnetic interaction that produces configurable registers of equal or greater durability at the chemical-biological scale.

If such an interaction exists, the electron’s dominance claim fails.

KS-RM.2 — Non-triviality of the record measure

Status: LIVE — HARD.

The record measure Σ(F, s) must give different answers from the conventional measure (coupling constant) in non-trivial ways.

Test: under matched scale, matched ambient conditions, and matched register class, demonstrate that persistence distributions are invariant to the interaction that writes the register, once substrate and environment are controlled.

If, under controlled comparisons, persistence is fully explained by ambient and substrate factors and not by the inscribing interaction, then Σ(F, s) collapses to an environmental proxy and the record-measure hierarchy is non-informative.

KS-RM.3 — Tuning of α and G

Status: LIVE — EMPIRICAL.

The qualitative argument that α and G must lie within specific bands for record-formation is structurally suggestive but not quantitative.

Test: via cosmological simulation or theoretical analysis, demonstrate that a universe with significantly different coupling constants can still support the full inheritance chain through alternative mechanisms.

If such a universe exists and the couplings are not constrained by the functional requirements of the loop, the tuning claim is false.

KS-RM.4 — Scale-specificity of the inversion

Status: LIVE — EMPIRICAL.

The hierarchy inversion is specific to the chemical-biological scale. At other scales (nuclear, cosmological), the hierarchy may not invert in the same way.

Test: if the hierarchy does not invert at different scales — if electromagnetism is also the strongest record-writer at the nuclear or cosmological scale — then the claim is not about functional tuning but about a universal property of electromagnetism, requiring a different explanation.

KS-RM.5 — Configurable register criterion

Status: LIVE — EMPIRICAL.

The criterion that excludes protons and gravitationally-bound structures from being configurable registers (fixed symmetry, no alternative histories) is principled but empirically defeasible.

Test: demonstrate that strong-force-produced objects or gravitationally-bound macrostates encode formation history in a distinguishable way — through quantum decoherence records, nuclear isomer states, or other mechanisms not currently classified as configurable registers.

If fixed-symmetry objects carry retrievable formation history, the criterion is too restrictive.