{ "model": { "rank": 4503, "code": "thing-q182154", "model_id": "vr.tr.time-travel", "name": "time travel", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a time-travel claim or scenario, distinguish its intended meaning and evidential status, and determine which inferences or actions its temporal rules support.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q182154/", "tier": 2, "score": 75, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "rollback in time", "time loop", "closed timelike curve", "chronoclasm", "temporal war" ], "aliasCount": 5, "merged": 5, "knownIn": 75, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q182154", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182154", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:22:36Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.3, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087d5-262e-7480-8b08-7bee5795e9e0\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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own causal past.", "scope_statement": "This model owns time travel as an abstract concept in registry entry vr.tr.time-travel, covering proposed displacement between temporal locations, competing criteria for what counts as travel, and the causal and evidential commitments of physical, philosophical and fictional instances.", "in_scope": [ "Definitions that distinguish time travel from ordinary temporal passage", "Travellers, departure and arrival events, reference frames and elapsed times", "Forward, backward and branching-history travel scenarios", "Mechanism assumptions, feasibility claims and evidence status", "Consistency constraints, interventions and information transfer across time", "Explicit temporal rules governing fictional and hypothetical instances" ], "out_of_scope": [ "General theories of time except where needed to interpret a travel claim", "Complete models of proposed time machines or their components", "Memory, prediction and historical reconstruction without 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"Interpretive setting", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "physical claim | philosophical scenario | fictional rule system | mixed | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Determines what constitutes support and whether proposed operations are conceptual, narrative or physical." }, { "name": "Adopted definition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "definition linked to its proponent, source and inclusion criteria", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one disputed meaning of time travel from silently governing every instance." }, { "name": "Temporal direction", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "future-directed | past-directed | bidirectional | reference-dependent | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates claims with different causal commitments." }, { "name": "Transferred entity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "person | other material system | signal or information | stipulated consciousness transfer | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Makes explicit what allegedly travels and whether it meets the adopted definition." }, { "name": "Traveller elapsed time", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "seconds, with clock, path and uncertainty specified; undefined where no traveller clock applies", "why_it_matters": "Allows elapsed time along a traveller's path to be distinguished from external dating." }, { "name": "External temporal displacement", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "signed seconds or dated event interval under a named reference and comparison convention", "why_it_matters": "Makes statements such as arriving earlier or skipping centuries interpretable." }, { "name": "History relationship", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "single fixed history | revisable history | branching histories | unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Determines how interventions relate to the departure history." }, { "name": "Mechanism support", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | stipulated | formally analysed | indirectly supported | directly tested | disputed | contradicted under stated conditions", "why_it_matters": "Separates assumptions, mathematical results and empirical support at the level of individual claims." }, { "name": "Return accessibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "return to departure history permitted | return only to another history | one-way | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents arrival capability from being mistaken for round-trip capability." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a proposed instance under an explicitly selected definition of time travel.", "Compare traveller and external elapsed times using declared reference conventions.", "Trace causal dependencies and expose contradictions or missing temporal rules.", "Separate a mechanism's assumptions from the evidence supporting each claim about it.", "Evaluate whether a proposed intervention or return journey is permitted within a scenario.", "Identify observations that could distinguish a physical transfer claim from prediction, reconstruction or deception." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "definitions-and-instance-boundaries", "name": "Definitions and instance boundaries", "description": "Identify which meaning of time travel is being used and what must occur for an instance to qualify.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, and different meanings admit different examples.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-inclusion-criteria", "name": "Competing inclusion criteria", "description": "Record definitions, their proponents and the disagreements that change classification.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-dependent-membership", "name": "Definition-dependent membership", "description": "Treat inclusion of differential ageing, past-directed arrival and other proposed cases as a question governed by an attributed definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source or proponent supplies the definition, and what necessary conditions does it impose?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "definition-dependent-membership-q01" }, { "text": "Does this definition include unequal elapsed times between travellers and observers, require arrival in the past, or use another criterion?", "kind": "definition", "id": "definition-dependent-membership-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "travel-versus-temporal-access", "name": "Travel versus temporal access", "description": "Separate transfer between temporal locations from experiences or representations of another time.", "findings": [ { "id": "what-crosses-the-temporal-boundary", "name": "What crosses the temporal boundary", "description": "Specify the entity claimed to travel and distinguish its transfer from ordinary persistence, simulated experience or knowledge acquisition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What person, object, signal or other entity is claimed to connect departure and arrival?", "kind": "definition", "id": "what-crosses-the-temporal-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes this case from waiting, preservation, remembering, predicting or viewing a reconstruction under the adopted definition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "what-crosses-the-temporal-boundary-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "temporal-route-and-traveller", "name": "Temporal route and traveller", "description": "Describe the departure, arrival, elapsed times and continuity of the proposed traveller.", "rationale": "Temporal displacement cannot be assessed without specifying what is compared and what persists through the journey.", "layers": [ { "id": "departure-arrival-and-clocks", "name": "Departure, arrival and clocks", "description": "Locate endpoints and define the clock or dating conventions used to compare them.", "findings": [ { "id": "reference-explicit-displacement", "name": "Reference-explicit displacement", "description": "Keep traveller duration, external elapsed time and temporal ordering separate rather than reducing travel to an unexplained date difference.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where and when are departure and arrival, and which frame, clock or event-ordering convention relates them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reference-explicit-displacement-q01" }, { "text": "How much time elapses for the traveller and the comparison observer, and how are those intervals established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reference-explicit-displacement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuity-and-coexisting-versions", "name": "Continuity and coexisting versions", "description": "Track the traveller's identity and path when different ages or copies may coexist.", "findings": [ { "id": "traveller-continuity-criteria", "name": "Traveller continuity criteria", "description": "Record whether arrival preserves the original entity, produces a copy or transfers only selected information, without assuming these are equivalent.", "questions": [ { "text": "What criterion identifies the arrival entity as the departure traveller rather than a replica or reconstruction?", "kind": "definition", "id": "traveller-continuity-criteria-q01" }, { "text": "Can multiple versions coexist, and how are their ages, memories and paths distinguished?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traveller-continuity-criteria-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mechanisms-and-evidence", "name": "Mechanisms and evidence", "description": "Separate proposed mechanisms, their prerequisites and the evidence supporting them.", "rationale": "A coherent description, a formal possibility and a demonstrated capability warrant different conclusions.", "layers": [ { "id": "mechanism-and-required-conditions", "name": "Mechanism and required conditions", "description": "Expose the physical assumptions or fictional stipulations that make the route available.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-travel-capability", "name": "Conditional travel capability", "description": "Represent a proposed route as conditional on specified conditions rather than treating a named mechanism as proof of feasibility.", "questions": [ { "text": "What 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"support-does-not-transfer-automatically-q01" }, { "text": "What observation would distinguish the claimed transfer from clock error, ordinary communication, prediction or fabricated records?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "support-does-not-transfer-automatically-q02" }, { "text": "What additional evidence is required before an agent may describe this capability as demonstrated?", "kind": "action", "id": "support-does-not-transfer-automatically-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "histories-and-causal-consistency", "name": "Histories and causal consistency", "description": "Make explicit how arrival and intervention relate to earlier events and alternative histories.", "rationale": "The consequences of travel depend on the scenario's history rules, especially when actions affect the conditions of departure.", "layers": [ { "id": "history-identity-and-revision", "name": "History identity and revision", "description": "Distinguish participation in one history, revision of a history and entry into another branch.", "findings": [ { "id": "destination-history-relationship", "name": "Destination history relationship", "description": "Specify whether the destination belongs to the departure history and what, if anything, an intervention changes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does arrival occur in the departure history, a revised history or a separate branch?", "kind": "definition", "id": "destination-history-relationship-q01" }, { "text": "If an earlier event is altered, what happens to the departure event, the traveller's memories and records of the original outcome?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "destination-history-relationship-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "causal-loops-and-conflicts", "name": "Causal loops and conflicts", "description": "Trace dependence across temporal routes, including self-undermining actions and circular provenance.", "findings": [ { "id": "consistency-obligations", "name": "Consistency obligations", "description": "Identify contradictions and loops in the stated rules without presuming that a causal loop is itself a contradiction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can an allowed action prevent the departure or mechanism on which that action depends, and how do the rules address this?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "consistency-obligations-q01" }, { "text": "Does an object or piece of information circulate through a causal loop, and is any origin outside that loop specified?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "consistency-obligations-q02" }, { "text": "Which interventions must be rejected or left unresolved to preserve the scenario's stated consistency rules?", "kind": "action", "id": "consistency-obligations-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reachability-and-intervention", "name": "Reachability and intervention", "description": "Determine which destinations, interactions and return routes a specified scenario permits.", "rationale": "The ability to reach another time does not by itself establish destination control, influence or return capability.", "layers": [ { "id": "destination-and-return-constraints", "name": "Destination and return constraints", "description": "Describe the accessible temporal range, spatial targeting and conditions for a return journey.", "findings": [ { "id": "reachable-event-set", "name": "Reachable event set", "description": "Bound permitted journeys using the mechanism or scenario's actual restrictions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dates and locations are reachable, with what precision and any limit tied to the mechanism's creation or operation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reachable-event-set-q01" }, { "text": "What permits a return, and does return mean reaching the original history, location and intended date?", "kind": "action", "id": "reachable-event-set-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interaction-and-transfer-limits", "name": "Interaction and transfer limits", "description": "Specify what can be observed, changed or carried across the route.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-temporal-operations", "name": "Permitted temporal operations", "description": "Distinguish observation, communication, material transport and intervention, with their separate constraints.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the route permit observation only, message exchange, material transfer or changes to destination events?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permitted-temporal-operations-q01" }, { "text": "What may an agent infer or attempt from the supported capabilities, and which operations require additional assumptions?", "kind": "action", "id": "permitted-temporal-operations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This entry covers the physical and philosophical concept, including its fictional use; the registry supplies no narrower sense.", "Relativistic differential ageing is experimentally established; describing it as time travel is partly terminological.", "Backward time travel has not been demonstrated; mathematical permissibility, physical realizability and proposed chronology-protection mechanisms must be distinguished." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of time travel this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Future-directed travel through relativistic time dilation", "Past-directed travel along closed timelike curves", "Hypothetical travel through a traversable wormhole with a time offset" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of time travel this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Relativistic clock comparisons experimentally establish unequal elapsed time, the physical basis of future-directed time travel.", "General relativity research examines spacetime geometries that permit closed timelike curves.", "Philosophy uses time-travel scenarios to examine causation, identity and logical consistency.", "Fiction uses time travel to explore alternative histories and consequences of changing the past." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of time travel this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Proper time elapsed along a traveller's trajectory", "typical_range": "Depends on the trajectory and spacetime geometry; no general typical range", "unit": "second" }, { "quantity": "Difference between elapsed times recorded by reunited clocks", "typical_range": "Depends on relative motion and gravitational conditions; no general typical range", "unit": "second" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of time travel this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating mathematical solutions that permit backward time travel as evidence that such travel can be physically achieved.", "Past-directed travel raises consistency problems, including scenarios in which an event prevents its own cause.", "Causal loops can leave information or objects without an ordinary external origin, creating explanatory puzzles.", "Proposed wormhole time machines depend on unverified assumptions about traversability, stability and allowable matter.", "Confusing experimentally established time dilation with demonstrated travel into the past." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of time travel this model covers, and on 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"Retrocausality concerns influence from later events on earlier ones and need not involve a traveller moving into the past." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of time travel this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which reference works and proponents supply the principal competing definitions, particularly concerning differential ageing and ordinary persistence into the future?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "Which proposed mechanisms have credible formal or empirical support for each specific capability, and which prerequisites remain unresolved?", "Should information-only or consciousness-transfer cases qualify as time travel under this entry, or remain related boundary cases?", "How should branching-history arrival be classified when 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a time travel, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a time-travel claim or scenario, distinguish its intended meaning and evidential status, and determine which inferences or actions its temporal rules support.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: rollback in time, time loop, closed timelike curve, chronoclasm, temporal war.", "5 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 75 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a time travel, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "rollback in time", "time loop", "closed timelike curve", "chronoclasm", "temporal war" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 75 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 5 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one time travel from another, and a time travel from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a time travel, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a time travel, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a time travel is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a time travel, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a time travel, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a time travel is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a time travel sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a time travel, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a time travel, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a time travel is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a time travel from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a time travel, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a time travel, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a time travel is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a time travel passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a time travel between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a time travel, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a time travel, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a time travel is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a time travel, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a time travel is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a time travel, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a time travel, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a time travel is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a time travel proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a time travel, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a time travel and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a time travel, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a time travel, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a time travel is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a time travel consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a time travel takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a time travel, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a time travel, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a time travel is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What time travel is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of time travel are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is time travel operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of time travel and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of time travel?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as time travel?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a time travel came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a time travel and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a time travel, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a time travel, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a time travel is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a time travel is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a time travel, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a time travel, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a time travel is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }