Transport Papers T14. Dark Matter and the Arrow of Time
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: T14 of the Transport Papers. Version 2.0. 74 pages. Epistemic status: Tier C. Transport runs in eight parallel towers, the residues of the Clifford clock. At the dimension nearest four (a flagged premise) two towers are sterile, r = 4 with no time and r = 0 with two (an imported fork): six can hold matter, five dark; the mirror is populated by indifference, the odd four by inference from the observed remainder. The residue is soldered, not algebraic, so the one metric superselects tower charge: exact stability, given the sector decomposition and the wall displacement. The mirror tower is proved a copy of whatever the Standard-Model paper derives: a second Standard Model, one visible share to half a percent, given one orientation. The orientation bit is the chirality of the pure spinor, its two halves in opposite families only at tower dimension a multiple of four, so the odd residues have no bit and asymmetric dark matter is the mirror tower's. The odd towers' symmetric relic needs a coupling rule the series lacks. One geometric rule, a common mass quantum per unit ball of each tower's space, returns the dark matter ratio as (11π + 16)/(3π) = 5.364 against 5.364 ± 0.065 observed, found by fitting, at observation level on three premises; the floor 5.255 holds for every thickness. The mirror's share is the testable claim, already a quarter above the galactic bound on mirror matter. The same bit is argued to be the arrow of time, given a three-way classification of arrows. Tier C: nine premises and a hypothesis are attacked, refutations costed, every identity script-checked. Position in the series: Within the series it relies on T1, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12 and T13, and on two later papers, T15 and T16. The composition its unit-ball rule fixes is tested in the companion note T14b, Simulating the Dark Towers; the companion note T14a, One Dimension at a Time, says what a single added generator does to the oriented towers. The series is surveyed in T17, The Transport Programme, whose status table records every paper's tier and check count. Verification: verify_T14.py checks every computational identity the paper asserts at its own proof level (200 checks in fourteen parts, all passing at deposit). Arithmetic is exact (rationals and arbitrary-precision integers, irrational constants entering only through rational brackets) except two checks of Part N, an order-of-magnitude estimate in floating point, and the forty-digit decimal evaluations of logarithms and exponentials in Parts H, J and K, whose inequality chains are exact. It imports GA.py, the series' shared library, deposited alongside so the record is self-contained. Run with a bare Python 3: python verify_T14.py. Files: T14_dark_matter.pdf; T14_dark_matter.tex; t14_boltzmann_ratios.png (the one image the source includes, needed to rebuild it with pdflatex); verify_T14.py; GA.py; LICENSE-CODE.txt. Licence: the paper (PDF and LaTeX source) is CC BY 4.0. The code files in this record are additionally released under the MIT licence; see LICENSE-CODE.txt. Authorship and disclosure. The founding idea of the series is the author's: that division by zero in a Clifford algebra should be read not as a prohibition but as a transport into a higher-dimensional algebra, and that the transported division need not be accompanied by an inverse operation. The direction of investigation and the critical review of the results are likewise the author's. The mathematical development and the drafting of the text were carried out in extended collaboration with Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic), an AI system.
Author: Butler, Leon
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7212350737
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