22 Ways to Kill Event Density (a Substrate Ontology)

Event Density (ED) is a contrast-first substrate ontology for physics. Its primitive is neither the event nor the relation but contrast, a difference or gradient from which both co-arise, together with commitment, the substrate's irreversible act that converts relational potential into determinate fact. From this base the framework derives quantum mechanics, gauge structure, gravity, and black-hole thermodynamics as downstream structural consequences, each tiered explicitly by how much of a given result is forced from the primitives and how much is inherited from measurement.

This document inverts the usual presentation of a research program. Rather than arguing for the framework, it lists twenty-two specific, numeric predictions, each with a stated kill condition, checkable against data that already exists or experiments already running: MOND's transition acceleration, the Baryonic Tully-Fisher slope, PPN preferred-frame parameters, a non-thermal correction to the Hawking spectrum, a forbidden class of gauge group, a quantum-to-classical decoherence wall in matter-wave interferometry, and a benchtop electrical circuit consistency test among them. Two further predictions are included without a clean kill condition built yet, and three already-passed tests are listed as the credibility floor, not the pitch. Every entry names precisely what observation would refute it.

The full corpus (125+ papers) is public, version-controlled, and honesty-tiered at
https://github.com/allen-proxmire/ED-generative.