Kill Switches

KS-FLIP.1 — the frozen row. ARMED. The claim is the expression Δ_real = Δ_bare/(1 + α²/8π) at CODATA-2022 α, displayed 2.53098857035. Dies if an improved measurement of the neutron–proton mass difference departs from it beyond the bar — the bar being the audited 1σ of the source lines: 7.4×10⁻⁷ mₑ (0.29 ppm), CODATA 2022. Nature-facing, live from this lock.

KS-FLIP.2 — forced structure. ARMED, binding on author and desks. Fires if any element of the construction — the order, the divisor, the scope, the form, the process claim of section 4 — is ever shown to have been selected by comparison with measurement rather than by the stated structural argument. The chain's true order is on the record: the structure in words first; the pair described before any count arithmetic; the elimination arriving afterward, as elimination; every canon locus checked against its file.

KS-FLIP.3 — the truncation. ARMED. The construction terminates at second order: no α³ term exists. The absent third-order piece sits at 3.9×10⁻⁸ — 5.3% of the audited bar, 0.020 eV — so adjudication waits on roughly twentyfold better metrology on the deuteron binding energy (B_d currently ±0.373 eV, CODATA 2022). The claim's silence at third order is itself a prediction, and nature will eventually rule on it.

KS-FLIP.4 — the scope. ARMED. Formal domain: the cost operator's domain is the set of configurations holding a non-zero second-scale ε — an orientation differing from its ground state under the same grip — and ground states are outside the domain by construction. The domain is blind to energetic accessibility, per section 8. Dies if a ground state is ever shown to require the cost, or a configuration inside the domain shown to escape it.

KS-30.2 — inherited, live in its parent. The isotropy assumption under both 84π and 8π. Shown anisotropic, both divisors move together, and this paper's row moves with its parent's.

KS-NPP.1 — fired, and shown. Forever.