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I’ve been working on a long-form open-access manuscript called Flip-Space.

The basic idea is to treat spacetime as a discrete binary flip lattice, then recover continuum physics as a fractional-transport limit. Everything is built from the ground up from two philosophical/structural axioms, instead of starting from phenomenological fits to observations.

If you are interested the work of Wolfram, 't Hooft and Conway, you should see familiar terrain, even if the product is radically different.

Concretely, the framework tries to:

- derive effective transport and hydrodynamics with fractional-order operators from the flip lattice, - reproduce standard cosmological behavior (CMB, Galaxy Rotation, Lensing, etc.) from that substrate, - connect the same substrate structure to some condensed-matter-style transport behavior.

The manuscript is long and calculation-heavy(but not boring, I promise), everything is explicit: local flip rules, coarse-graining, fractional operators, and numerical comparisons against standard ΛCDM fits and condensed-matter benchmarks. ...and if you don't enjoy dense math, I did try to include layman's explanations for just about everything, your mileage may vary, I'm no poet.

At this point I’d really like technical pushback. A detailed critical beatdown is welcome.

Thanks in advance (my email is included in the document if you prefer direct communication).

Zenodo (PDF, open access): https://zenodo.org/records/17663946