The Predictive Roadmap: Honest Anchors

The substrate is a cellular automaton — Computationally Irreducible: no algebraic shortcuts ahead of the ticks. The engine can only claim what its measurements actually show. This page is the open frontier on moore26: what the current engine can still reach, and which bridges it honestly can't.

The deviation audit in Moore26 Findings is the honest scorecard this roadmap is measured against. The earlier engines' campaigns (the M-series, E-series, collider-matrix proposals) are archived under Program History — this page is only the current engine's frontier.

Step 1: Charge range — a field, not a jam (open)

Today the charge law fires under offer congestion — a cap gate, a traffic jam. Nature's Coulomb acts at distance. The open question: can a standing virtual layer — persistent unconfirmed offers or phase bias radiated into the vacuum halo — project a gradient that steers traffic before it arrives? Measured next: whether a charged knot's wake deflects a probe stream at range, not just at contact.

Step 2: Knots in motion — ballistic translation (open)

A wound knot's binding winding is anchored to where the mass sits: knots crawl by rebuilding themselves cell-by-cell. For a soliton to translate, the circulation pattern must shift its center coherently across the lattice without paying full re-crystallization cost per hop. The radiative-recoil proposal — book the emission momentum the knot currently sheds for free — is the minimal honest mechanism to test first.

Step 3: Lorentz structure (downstream of motion)

If a knot translates at 0.5c, half its transaction cycles go to moving structure forward — half as many left for internal update. That processing lag is time dilation as a mechanism, not an axiom. Length contraction follows as Doppler-skewed internal signaling along the travel axis. Measurable only once Step 2 yields real v.

Step 4: The species census (in progress)

Which bound structures persist? Verified so far: the wound knot (dissipative equilibrium), the ring (topologically protected rail), the flux tube (conductor until it fractures). Open: the Hopf-link topology, the chiral-pair lifetime, whether multi-knot bound states hold under sustained flux — the zoo, measured rather than seeded.

Step 5: Gravity (proposed, unimplemented)

Mass-induced routing asymmetry — a knot subtly biasing conduction directions in its neighborhood — is the substrate's candidate mechanism for attraction at range. Not implemented; the honest test is whether ambient packets deflect toward a stationary knot by δθ ∝ mass.

The honesty conditions

• Mechanism matches, not borrowed vocabulary. A result is a substrate behavior measured in substrate units; dimensional bridges to meters/seconds/GeV are conditional and always flagged.
• Nulls are results. The retracted chirality, the failed collider-telemetry matrix, the confounds — all first-class records, kept in the archive, not hidden.
• The ledger gates claims. The ~0.1% documented seam means the engine's bookkeeping is honest enough to trust downstream measurements — and the seam itself stays on the record.