Detector response on circular worldlines in de Sitter spacetime: a sharp negative result for a single-temperature origin of the MOND acceleration scale
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Paper 1 of the Circular Vacuum Program. Detector response on circular worldlines in de Sitter spacetime: a preregistered computation returning a sharp negative result for a single-temperature origin of the MOND acceleration scale. All numbers were produced under freeze-before-score protocol with misses booked at face value. FILES: manuscript PDF; Overleaf source zip; sealed reproducibility capsule (code, grids, journals, SHA-256 manifest); append-only figure/corrections addendum. THE PROGRAM This deposit is part of the Circular Vacuum Program, a preregistered computational series on detector response and vacuum entanglement along bound and circular worldlines. Each paper is deposited with its reproduction capsule, its frozen preregistration, and its deviation register. Scored values and verdicts are booked at face value, including misses, and corrections are appended rather than applied retroactively. Paper 1 — Detector response on circular worldlines in de Sitter spacetime: a sharp negative result for a single-temperature origin of the MOND acceleration scale. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21609173 Paper 2 — A kinematic pedestal above the thermal backbone: detector response on eccentric orbits in de Sitter spacetime. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21609579 Paper 3 — An exact identity between electromagnetic and scalar vacuum response on circular worldlines. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21609658 (v1.2 addendum: doi:10.5281/zenodo.21691002) Paper 4 — Vacuum dressing of bound worldlines in de Sitter spacetime: an infrared logarithm and exclusion bounds on vacuum-dressed modified inertia. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21609697 Paper 5 — Laboratory contact for a preregistered worldline-vacuum stack: retrodicting the Sokolov-Ternov polarization and its resonance structure. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21609721 Paper 6 — Entanglement harvesting on bound worldlines in de Sitter spacetime: the co-orbital map, a conformal split, and horizon degradation. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21609752 Paper 7 — Horizons against harvesting: the vacuum-entanglement competition on bound worldlines in de Sitter, BTZ, and Schwarzschild spacetimes. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21609782 Paper 8 — The edge law of circular vacuum response: the threshold exponent is the spatial dimension. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21694371 Paper 9 — Circular vacuum response at fixed velocity is an exact piecewise polynomial: the low-gap plateau splits at the Thomas frequency. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21747116 Paper 9 closes the arc's methodological line: at fixed finite velocity, with the Lorentz factor held exact in the phases, circular-worldline detector response is an exact piecewise polynomial whose breakpoints are the harmonics, which replaces the quadrature ladder the earlier papers computed against. Its qualitative result is that in (2+1) dimensions the Fermi-Walker object carries no integer harmonic at all. CEILING (binding, quoted exactly): this computes the thermometer, not the engine; the inertia coupling remains unsolved. METHODS NOTE: Produced in an AI-assisted workflow (Anthropic's Claude as computational and drafting assistant) under preregistered protocols, adversarial multi-round review, and independent recomputation; all results and interpretations remain entirely the responsibility of the author. No external funding; no competing interests. Binding scope sentence: this computes the thermometer, not the engine; the inertia coupling remains unsolved.
Author: Maggio, John
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7171324264
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