GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE COSMOLOGY WITHOUT RIGID ASTROPHYSICAL PRIORS: a critical-propositional reading of Amanda Mirna Farah's work in confrontation with the Theory of Objectivity

This article presents a critical-propositional analysis of the work associated with Zenodo record 10.5281/zenodo.13363159, authored by Amanda Mirna Farah, entitled Code for “No Need to Know: Astrophysics-free gravitational-wave cosmology”. The study examines the scientific and methodological significance of astrophysics-free gravitational-wave cosmology in light of the Theory of Objectivity (TO), placing the analyzed work in dialogue with the foundational bibliography of TO, its recent modal and testability-oriented developments, and a broader supporting bibliography from contemporary physics and philosophy of science.

The article argues that Farah’s proposal is especially relevant because it reduces inferential dependence on rigid astrophysical priors regarding source mass distributions and thereby strengthens the epistemic status of gravitational-wave cosmology as a pathway to cosmological knowledge. From the standpoint of the Theory of Objectivity, this methodological achievement is interpreted as a meaningful operational bridge between phenomenon and cosmological intelligibility. The study explores possible compatibilities with TO’s modal axioms, especially regarding relational structure, informational singularity, phenomenic mediation, and the production of knowledge through structured physical relations.

At the same time, the article identifies important points of tension. While the analyzed work is methodologically robust and scientifically valuable, it does not by itself provide the modal ontological grounding required by the Theory of Objectivity. Thus, the article proposes that Farah’s work should be understood not as a competing cosmogony, but as a significant empirical and inferential contribution that may be reinterpreted, within the horizon of TO, as an advanced case of informational access to the structured universe through measurable radiative phenomena.

The paper also articulates the discussion with the concepts of phenomenic elements, Inductive Effects, the cosmogonic theorem of TO, and the cosmological Eras of the Theory of Objectivity, whenever analytically appropriate. In this interpretive framework, the transcendent element is understood as the knowledge or information generated in atomic relations and equivalent to atomic radiations, allowing gravitational-wave signals to be read as carriers of organized cosmological intelligibility.

Note: This analytical study benefited from the analytical support of ChatGPT.

Keywords: Theory of Objectivity; gravitational-wave cosmology; Amanda Mirna Farah; astrophysics-free cosmology; nonparametric inference; standard sirens; modal ontology; phenomenic elements; Inductive Effects; cosmological information; testability; philosophy of physics.