{ "model": { "rank": 3836, "code": "thing-q849919", "model_id": "vr.tr.electromagnetic-interaction", "name": "electromagnetic interaction", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an electromagnetic interaction, record the evidence and physical regime needed to describe it, and judge which predictions or interventions that description supports.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q849919/", "tier": 2, "score": 81, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 81, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q849919", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q849919", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T18:52:51Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.4, "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: 01a08783-1b51-7702-99f7-8faa3e7ea04f\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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classically by Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz force law and quantum mechanically by quantum electrodynamics.", "scope_statement": "This model owns electromagnetic interaction as a physical process involving electric charge and electromagnetic fields, including classical and quantum descriptions and their applicability; it preserves the registry's ACT / ACT.ACT placement without treating the interaction as an intentional action.", "in_scope": [ "Interaction participants, electric charges, currents, fields and relevant material responses", "Electric and magnetic effects as aspects of one electromagnetic interaction", "Classical, semiclassical and quantum descriptions with explicit applicability limits", "Electromagnetic transfer of energy, momentum and angular momentum", "Evidence distinguishing electromagnetic contributions from other mechanisms", "Permissible predictions and interventions under specified conditions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Complete models of charged particles, atoms or materials as independently registered things", "Complete specifications of electrical circuits, antennas, magnets or other devices", "Strong, weak and gravitational interactions except as competing or coupled contributions", "Electromagnetism as an academic discipline and its institutional history", "Light as a separately modelled phenomenon beyond its role in electromagnetic interaction", "Application-specific medical, occupational or equipment exposure limits" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A proposed instance must identify electromagnetic coupling through charge, current, electromagnetic moments or induced material response; visible motion alone does not establish the mechanism.", "Electric and magnetic field components must be associated with a reference frame; their relative contributions do not define separate fundamental interactions.", "A static electromagnetic interaction need not emit or absorb propagating radiation, so absence of detected photons does not exclude an 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"measurement", "unit_or_values": "Charge in C; volume charge density in C/m³; current density in A/m², with spatial and temporal dependence", "why_it_matters": "Supports source identification and checks of charge continuity." }, { "name": "Electromagnetic field", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Electric field in V/m; magnetic flux density in T; position, time, reference frame and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Supports classical force and transport predictions without treating field values as independent of observation conditions." }, { "name": "Material response", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Constitutive relations for polarization, magnetization and conduction, including frequency dependence where relevant", "why_it_matters": "Determines how a medium modifies fields, stores energy and dissipates energy." }, { "name": "Characteristic scales", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length in m; duration in s; frequency in Hz; energy in J or eV", 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available.", "Design discriminating measurements using changes in charge, field orientation, frequency, geometry or shielding.", "Evaluate proposed changes to source strength, separation, materials or boundary conditions.", "Flag predictions or interventions that require missing parameters, a more complete theory or application-specific constraints." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "coupling-and-identification", "name": "Coupling and identification", "description": "Establish what is interacting and why an electromagnetic account is warranted.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish an electromagnetic mechanism from an observed effect that could have several causes.", "layers": [ { "id": "participants-and-coupling", "name": "Participants and coupling", "description": "Record the sources and electromagnetic properties through which participants couple.", "findings": [ { "id": "charge-current-and-neutral-response", "name": "Charge, current and neutral response", "description": "Identify charge and current distributions, magnetic moments or induced polarization without using net charge as the sole inclusion criterion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which participants couple through charge, current, magnetic moments or induced polarization?", "kind": "definition", "id": "charge-current-and-neutral-response-q01" }, { "text": "What observations or records establish those properties, including relevant internal structure of neutral participants?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "charge-current-and-neutral-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mechanism-discrimination", "name": "Mechanism discrimination", "description": "Separate electromagnetic contributions from alternative or combined explanations.", "findings": [ { "id": "discriminating-response", "name": "Discriminating response", "description": "Record evidence that tests an electromagnetic explanation rather than relying on labels such as attraction, repulsion or contact force.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed dependence on charge, field direction, distance, frequency or material response supports the proposed electromagnetic mechanism?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "discriminating-response-q01" }, { "text": "Which competing mechanisms remain compatible with the observations, and what controlled change would distinguish them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "discriminating-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fields-media-and-boundaries", "name": "Fields, media and boundaries", "description": "Specify the electromagnetic environment needed to interpret and predict an interaction.", "rationale": "Fields and material responses depend on location, time, geometry and observational conventions; isolated field magnitudes are insufficient.", "layers": [ { "id": "field-description", "name": "Field description", "description": "Record electric and magnetic fields with their coordinates, reference frame and observational status.", "findings": [ { "id": "frame-and-field-observables", "name": "Frame and field observables", "description": "Distinguish measured fields from inferred fields and keep potential representations separate from gauge-independent predictions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the electric and magnetic fields over the relevant region and interval, and in which reference frame are they specified?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "frame-and-field-observables-q01" }, { "text": "Are the fields measured or inferred, and which source model, gauge choice if potentials are used, and uncertainties accompany that inference?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "frame-and-field-observables-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "medium-and-geometry", "name": "Medium and geometry", "description": "Capture interfaces, source geometry and material behavior that shape the interaction.", "findings": [ { "id": "constitutive-and-boundary-conditions", "name": "Constitutive and boundary conditions", "description": "Specify the material relations and initial or boundary conditions required to determine the fields.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which conducting, dielectric or magnetic regions and interfaces affect the fields, and what initial or boundary conditions are imposed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "constitutive-and-boundary-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the assumed conductivity, polarization and magnetization response over the relevant frequencies and field strengths?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "constitutive-and-boundary-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "regime-and-physical-description", "name": "Regime and physical description", "description": "Select a representation and expose the approximations that determine its validity.", "rationale": "A static force law, a classical radiation calculation and a quantum transition model require different evidence and support different predictions.", "layers": [ { "id": "classical-approximation", "name": "Classical approximation", "description": "Determine 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"quantization-and-photon-interpretation", "name": "Quantization and photon interpretation", "description": "Record the need for discrete transitions, quantum field states or scattering amplitudes, and distinguish detected radiation from virtual photons used in perturbative calculations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed transitions, photon statistics, scattering outcomes or required precision make a classical description inadequate?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "quantization-and-photon-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Does the selected account describe a classical field, a quantized radiation state or virtual exchange within a specified approximation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "quantization-and-photon-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "exchange-evidence-and-intervention", "name": "Exchange, evidence and intervention", "description": "Connect the selected description to measurable exchanges and justified actions.", "rationale": "An agent needs to know what the 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"name": "Controlled change", "description": "Evaluate interventions and the observations needed to validate their expected effects.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-with-applicability-checks", "name": "Intervention with applicability checks", "description": "Specify a controllable electromagnetic change and check whether it preserves the assumptions supporting the prediction.", "questions": [ { "text": "What change to source charge, current, field orientation, frequency, separation or shielding is proposed, and what measurable response is expected?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-with-applicability-checks-q01" }, { "text": "Could the change introduce material saturation, electrical breakdown, substantial heating or another regime change that invalidates the prediction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intervention-with-applicability-checks-q02" }, { "text": "Which measurements and application-specific operating constraints must be available before carrying out the intervention?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-with-applicability-checks-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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 describes the physical fundamental interaction; the supplied ACT.ACT classification has not been independently checked.", "The listed kinds are useful physical regimes, not separate fundamental interactions.", "No sources were consulted; standards and identifiers are left empty because none specific to this concept is confidently recalled." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of electromagnetic interaction 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": [ "Electrostatic interactions between stationary charges", "Magnetostatic interactions involving steady currents", "Time-dependent interactions, including electromagnetic induction", "Radiative interactions, including emission, absorption and scattering of photons" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of electromagnetic interaction 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": [ "Electric motors, generators and transformers", "Radio, optical and other electromagnetic communication", "Electronic circuits and semiconductor devices", "Spectroscopy and electromagnetic imaging", "Electromagnetic control of charged particle beams" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of electromagnetic interaction 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": "Fine-structure constant, characterising electromagnetic coupling strength", "typical_range": "Approximately 1/137 in the low-energy limit; the effective coupling depends on energy scale", "unit": "dimensionless" }, { "quantity": "Electric field strength", "typical_range": "No universal typical range; depends on charge distribution, materials and geometry", "unit": "volt per metre (V/m)" }, { "quantity": "Magnetic flux density", "typical_range": "No universal typical range; depends on currents, materials and geometry", "unit": "tesla (T)" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of electromagnetic interaction 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": [ "Electrical breakdown can cause arcing, insulation failure and equipment damage.", "Unwanted electromagnetic coupling can interfere with circuits and measurements.", "Induced currents and resistive losses can cause unintended heating." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of electromagnetic interaction this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The underlying interaction has no known geographical variation; SI and Gaussian unit conventions express its equations differently." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of electromagnetic interaction this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Electromagnetic field", "difference": "The field is the physical entity that carries electromagnetic influence; the interaction concerns its coupling to charged matter." }, { "name": "Electromagnetic radiation", "difference": "Radiation is a propagating electromagnetic phenomenon; the interaction also includes static fields and nonradiative processes." }, { "name": "Quantum electrodynamics", "difference": "Quantum electrodynamics is the quantum field theory describing the interaction, rather than the interaction itself." }, { "name": "Electroweak interaction", "difference": "Electroweak theory unifies electromagnetic and weak interactions; electromagnetism is its unbroken electromagnetic sector." }, { "name": "Strong interaction", "difference": "The strong interaction couples to colour charge, whereas electromagnetism couples to electric charge." }, { "name": "Gravitation", "difference": "Gravitation couples to energy and momentum, whereas electromagnetic coupling depends on electric charge." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of electromagnetic interaction this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world model already own electromagnetic interaction, requiring this registry entry to link to it rather than become a separate publication?", "What intended ontology distinction places this physical interaction in ACT / ACT.ACT, and how should it relate to neighbouring field, force and radiation entries?", "Which effective phenomena, such as friction, chemical bonding and dispersion forces, should be represented here only through links to their more specific models?", "Which authoritative references and operational criteria should establish the supported classical, semiclassical and quantum applicability boundaries?", "How should the 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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 electromagnetic interaction, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise an electromagnetic interaction, record the evidence and physical regime needed to describe it, and judge which predictions or interventions that description supports.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 81 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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": [], "standing": "Described in 81 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one electromagnetic interaction from another, and a electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction?", "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 electromagnetic interaction?", "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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 electromagnetic interaction is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction, 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 electromagnetic interaction 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 } } } }