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Open testing guide

SPARC galaxy reproducibility

RBFL uses public SPARC galaxy rotation-curve information as a testing environment. The aim is not merely to display a fit, but to make the inputs, code path, outputs and failure conditions inspectable.

Evidence boundary: the published packages support audit and reproduction of the project’s internal calculations. They do not constitute independent validation.

What the SPARC data provide

SPARC contains high-quality galaxy rotation curves and decompositions of the visible components. These data let researchers compare observed orbital velocities with estimates for gas, stellar disks and bulges across radius.

The RBFL reproduction path

  1. Load the documented galaxy and radial inputs.
  2. Calculate the baryonic quantities without consulting the target residual.
  3. Apply the fixed RBFL law and phase-state detector using frozen settings.
  4. Generate velocity and diagnostic outputs.
  5. Score the holdout sample and publish both successes and failures.

Why frozen parameters matter

A model can look impressive if each galaxy is tuned after its observed curve is known. The important test is whether one declared rule generalises to galaxies that were not used to choose its parameters. RBFL therefore identifies a frozen-parameter blind comparison as its next decisive standard.

Available materials

The website provides the 3D Sine-Intersection paper, the unified-law report, source and figure packages, detector outputs, and a full reproducibility archive. Zenodo records provide persistent identifiers and an external publication trail.

Download the reproducibility package Open the Zenodo record

What independent reviewers should check

  • Data provenance and preprocessing choices.
  • Whether holdout information leaked into parameter selection.
  • Sensitivity to stellar mass-to-light assumptions and uncertainties.
  • Performance against transparent comparison models.
  • Whether the proposed phase variables predict anything beyond the rotation curve used to define them.

Current scientific status

RBFL remains a speculative research programme. Reproducibility is necessary, but reproducing the author’s calculation is not the same as demonstrating that the proposed physical mechanism exists.