The banana filter
If an explanation can account equally well for an expected result and its opposite, it is not yet an explanation.
The project’s memory
New questions do not erase
the road that led to them.
Much of the UCMT Project grew from repeated attempts to view different phenomena through a single medium. Those texts need not be hidden simply because the project’s centre has shifted.
Here they become a library: a place to reconstruct the path of thought, see changes of language, and distinguish the active research framework from historical branches.
Almanac
A sequential, almost conversational introduction to the medium model.
Go ↓02Methodology
How the project learned to distinguish an attractive connection from a testable one.
Go ↓03Working notes
Heuristics, side thoughts, doubts, and the human layer of research.
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How the question changed
A short history without rewriting the past
- Early stage
Minimal ontology
An attempt to read electrodynamics, gravity, and quantum connectedness as manifestations of a common background.
- UCM-T
A unified compressible medium
Foundations, a calibration pipeline, and thematic applications across scales appear.
- Numerical layer
From reasoning to computable objects
Models begin to ask not only “can this be explained?” but “what is observable here?”
- Now
Connections, constraints, and transitions
CQT, transition corpora, and independent tests form a search for a possible grammar of relations.
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Read in sequence
The UCM-T Almanac
The Almanac keeps the project’s original voice: looking at a familiar phenomenon from a different angle and not being afraid of a simple question.
01The mediumWhy introduce a common background?02WavesHow disturbance becomes transport.03LightWhat changes in a medium-based reading.04GravityGeometry, pressure, and constraints.05MassInertia as a property of structure.06DefectsLocalised states of a medium.07CalibrationWhere a hypothesis meets measurement.08VacuumEmptiness as a physical object.09NV centresA laboratory channel of observation.10RingdownDamping and an effective medium.11MesoscaleTransitions between levels of description.12UCM EngineFirst steps towards numerical models.
The existing URLs will be preserved when this version is published. The Almanac changes its place in navigation, but it does not disappear.
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Research discipline
Methodology before CQT and beside it
This layer shows how a language of parameters, clean channels, observation horizons, and controlled comparisons gradually emerged.
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The human layer
Working notes
Not every thought must immediately become a paper. Sometimes the useful thing to preserve is a way of thinking, an unexpected analogy, or a good safeguard against self-deception.
Open all notes →Keep the dead ends
An unsuccessful branch often marks the boundary of a method more precisely than one more attractive picture.
Are relations more fundamental than objects?
Can relations be a more stable subject of inquiry than the selected carriers of those relations?