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The kill criterion follows directly from the derivation rather than being appended to it: if a network’s fitted tidal estimator fails to shrink as its baseline moves away from a known mass, fails to track the local vertical as the network is relocated, or survives a proper subtraction of every independently known rotational and accelerated-frame contribution without settling toward the trace-free 2:{-1}:{-1} pattern derived above, the claim that curvature has been diagnosed is false, regardless of how large the raw number looks on a screen. What survives that test is not a new theory of gravity, a new force, or a new invariant beyond what general relativity already supplies. It is a way of…
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The kill criterion follows directly from the derivation rather than being appended to it: if a network’s fitted tidal estimator fails to shrink as its baseline moves away from a known mass, fails to track the local vertical as the network is relocated, or survives a proper subtraction of every independently known rotational and accelerated-frame contribution without settling toward the trace-free 2:{-1}:{-1} pattern derived above, the claim that curvature has been diagnosed is false, regardless of how large the raw number looks on a screen. What survives that test is not a new theory of gravity, a new force, or a new invariant beyond what general relativity already supplies. It is a way of making sure a clock network is only ever credited with having measured what its own arithmetic can actually distinguish — a bend in spacetime — and never with what any elevator, resting or accelerating, could have produced for free.
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