IndisputableMonolith.Verification.CassiniStrongFieldLikelihood
Module packaging the Cassini radio-science constraint on the PPN parameter deviation γ−1 as a strong-field falsifier likelihood. It records the measured central value and uncertainty, the RS target scale, the residual in sigma units, and positivity/one-sigma comparison lemmas, then wraps them in an inhabited likelihood certificate. Downstream falsifier-register aggregation imports this certificate as the Cassini row of Track 6.C.
claimCassini supplies a measured central value $(\gamma-1)_{\mathrm{obs}}$ with uncertainty $\sigma_\gamma$, an RS target scale $s_{\mathrm{RS}}>0$, and residual $r=|(\gamma-1)_{\mathrm{obs}}-s_{\mathrm{RS}}|/\sigma_\gamma$. The module asserts $\sigma_\gamma>0$, $s_{\mathrm{RS}}>0$, $r<1$, and $\sigma_\gamma>s_{\mathrm{RS}}$, and packages these into a strong-field likelihood certificate for the falsifier register.
background
Recognition Science's gravity track treats parameterized post-Newtonian (PPN) deviations as structural discriminators between GR and RS predictions in the strong-field regime. Track 6.C of the quantum-gravity master plan isolates strong-field tests; the upstream module StrongFieldStructural closes the structural form of that track (zero sorry, zero RS-internal axiom).
Cassini radio science famously bounds $\gamma-1$ near zero. This module attaches that named dataset: a central measurement for $\gamma-1$, its one-sigma width, and an RS-native target scale against which the residual is scored. The sibling falsifier-dataset module attaches concrete numerical sensitivity records to every row of the master-plan §7 register; here the Cassini row is specialized to the strong-field $\gamma$ channel.
Notation in the module is elementary: central value, sigma, RS target scale, residual in units of sigma, and a small certificate structure recording attachment status and the comparison lemmas.
proof idea
Definition-and-certificate module, not a deep derivation. Numeric constants fix the Cassini central $\gamma-1$, sigma, and RS target scale. Positivity of sigma and of the RS scale are immediate arithmetic facts. The residual is the absolute deviation of the central value from the RS scale, divided by sigma; two comparison lemmas discharge residual $<1\sigma$ and sigma greater than the RS target. A certificate structure bundles those facts with a dataset-attachment status flag; an inhabited instance supplies the concrete Cassini certificate for import by the likelihood register.
why it matters in Recognition Science
Closes the Cassini strong-field likelihood row that the falsifier likelihood register aggregates. Downstream FalsifierLikelihoodRegister is the Sessions 107--115 layer over master-plan §7: dataset-specific likelihood and status for every falsifier. Without this module the Cassini $\gamma-1$ channel would be a bare dataset attachment rather than a scored residual-plus-certificate.
In the broader RS gravity program this is the observational face of Track 6.C: structural strong-field discriminators become numerically checkable against a published spacecraft bound. It does not derive $\gamma$ from the forcing chain (T0--T8) or from the Recognition Composition Law; it only scores the published Cassini number against the RS target scale already fixed upstream.
scope and limits
- Does not derive the PPN parameter γ from first principles or from the T0–T8 forcing chain.
- Does not re-analyze raw Cassini Doppler data; uses published central value and sigma only.
- Does not claim a detection of RS; only residual-versus-target bookkeeping under one-sigma comparison.
- Does not cover other PPN parameters (β, α1, …) or non-Cassini strong-field probes.
- Does not replace the structural theorems in StrongFieldStructural; it only attaches likelihood data.
used by (1)
depends on (2)
declarations in this module (13)
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def
cassiniGammaMinusOneCentral -
def
cassiniGammaSigma -
def
cassiniRSTargetScale -
def
cassiniStrongFieldResidual -
theorem
cassiniGammaSigma_pos -
theorem
cassiniRSTargetScale_pos -
theorem
cassini_residual_lt_one_sigma -
theorem
cassini_sigma_gt_rs_target -
theorem
cassini_dataset_attachment_status -
structure
CassiniStrongFieldLikelihoodCert -
def
cassiniStrongFieldLikelihoodCert -
theorem
cassiniStrongFieldLikelihoodCert_inhabited -
theorem
cassini_strong_field_likelihood_one_statement