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METHODS / FOR CLOSER INSPECTION

How the pictures were made

A chart can be clear, handsome and still need a source.

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SHAPES AND RULES

The opening model plate shows common scientific practices, not a fixed recipe. Figures 1, 2 and 4 are mathematical constructions. The hypercube has 16 vertices and 32 edges, projected onto the page. R1 adds one distance unit per step. Figure 3, the field panels and the Ruliad network explain ideas; they are not measured maps.

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THE COSMIC BUDGET

Figure 5 uses rounded Planck 2018 base-Lambda-CDM values: ordinary matter = 0.0224 / 0.674 squared, or 4.9%; total matter = 31.5%; other matter = 26.6%; dark energy = 68.5%. Other matter includes a small neutrino share. Radiation is negligible at this rounding. [1]

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WAVES AND BELL TESTS

Figure 6 uses v = c/n, with representative indices 1, 1.0003, 1.333 and 1.517. [47-49] Figure 7 shows an example wave and the CHSH limits 2 and 2 sqrt(2). These are calculated values, not a new experiment.

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PEOPLE AND PROBABILITY

Figure 10 uses rounded study averages; Figure 13 uses reported helping percentages. Neither shows error bars. Figure 11 is invented arithmetic: 9 true positives plus 99 false positives. [22,42]

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ART AND LIMITS

Figures 8, 9 and 12 explain ideas. The cover and interior illustrations are interpretive art, not observations. For each figure: what was measured, what was assumed, and what was omitted?

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The illustrations are complete. Further observations are permitted.

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