Twenty-seven headstones. Each was an idea we believed — most were ideas we loved — and each died at a gate we registered before running it. They are published at the same prominence as the results because they are the results' credibility: the reason to believe what survived is that these same knives did not kill it. Two headstones were later amended under adversarial review; the amendments are carved below the originals, not instead of them.
The pre-drainage era: relational-bath mechanisms that attracted without a conservation law; the minimal gauge model that conserved but repelled; local scalar sectors killed by a 0/5000 no-go; nonlocal models that broke causality; the media with rest frames, drag, and no cone. Their full records live in the archive's folios and the legacy account, each with its scripts. Out of their epitaphs came the impossibility triangle — and the requirement table that forced the drainage proposal.
Predicted: a galaxy's lopsided side aligns with its motion through the CMB frame. We ran the measurement ourselves — 236 WALLABY velocity maps, pre-registered before any data was opened — and got a coin flip (50.5%, p = 0.50). Amended after a reader's challenge: only the strong-wake regime is excluded; the pilot also produced the first measurement of two questions nobody had ever asked, audit-verified virgin. New program rule carved here: no pre-registration without a power calculation.
The program's proudest milestone — a conserved Gauss flux that attracts — died when the dimension gate revealed the sign lived in the hand-declared cost law, not in the vacuum. The committed script did not reproduce the recorded result. What survived: the conserved Coulomb form, in every dimension, exactly. The sign was later re-derived honestly from the information metric (n46) — this grave is why that result can be believed.
No linear redshift channel exists for parity-neutral observables: the drainage field is purely staggered and offers such clocks only its square, at every order. Proven, then narrowed under review: the theorem governs substrate and bookkeeping clocks; matter is parity-charged and escapes through the same pole the force uses. The epitaph was wider than the premises — the narrowing is carved into the theorem file itself.
Registered as the death clause of the second-order metric channel (n50, gate M1). The channel existed; the gate passed; the stone was never needed. It stands empty as a reminder that the gates are real in both directions.
The budget-field completion's γ came out −1.25 with an exact k⁻² law: anti-redshift, headstone. One day later an adversarial referee showed the k⁻² was the conformal factor of the whole information geometry — the units of the ledger, not the physics of matter: any true frequency cancels it exactly (verified to 1.000000). The stone stands re-carved: what died here was not the completion but the identification of a cost with a clock. Out of this grave came inertia, the operational clock, and the γ formula.
Mercury: β = 0.513 measured (verified F-independent) where the perihelion demands 1.000. LARES: no gravitomagnetic sector, frame dragging measured at 2%. Binary pulsars: the quadrupole form. Three measurements, one missing organ — the relativistic dynamical completion. The static model died as a complete theory and survived as a candidate limit.
The self-referential ledger (cost as consumption, κ locked at 1) converged and changed β by nothing: cost densities are parity-even by construction — staggered charge exactly zero. In the bipartite architecture, the field's own energy cannot gravitate: attraction and β = 1 exclude each other. The dichotomy's second face.
The two-budget-regimes conjecture passed its first gates (a flux tube formed and lengthened) and died the next morning by theorem: a budget bound cannot confine — beyond r ~ F/2πb diluted flux slips under the bound and Coulomb returns (measured: the log wins at long range, the tube's middle empties). The tube was two exhausted cores holding hands.
Positive-frequency baths fix the induced sign (the KMS/Casimir structure) — and it is repulsion, measured in the full model. Monitored-bath gravity is repulsive for every physical passive bath; attraction requires an active vacuum. The dial was never a dial; it was owned by the wrong branch. What stands: a measuring vacuum cannot be passive — a demon needs a battery.
Born of the staggered-matter doctrine, dead within a day, twice over: the taste count was transplanted onto a fermionless framework (borrowed authority), and even granting fermions, degenerate quartets are excluded while broken tastes count nothing. Carved into the program's law: predictions born of doctrine die in hours; predictions born of measurement hold.
Every computation this program ran was exact; every death came from an identification — what counts as a clock, an energy, a potential, a monitor. The knives that caught them: pre-registration with death clauses, power calculations, unit conventions written into the registration, and referees with no stake — including hostile ones, paid in the only currency that matters here, which is being proven right in public. The formula on the front page is the first result to survive all of it.