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Original Theories Volume XXX · science index

26 retained entries from the original 29. Original entry numbers are preserved. These are working hypotheses, not findings or proofs.

The rival is a different mechanism

• Theory 11 · Roughness or Magnitude?
  Aftershock decay reflects mainshock slip heterogeneity.
• Theory 16 · Instability or Just Demand?
  Traffic flow breaks down because the flow state becomes unstable near capacity.
• Theory 13 · Accumulated Heat or Peak?
  Bleaching tracks accumulated heat exposure rather than peak temperature.
• Theory 15 · Wind Work or Stored Energy?
  Eddy kinetic energy is maintained by wind work rather than by release of stored potential energy.
• Theory 14 · Change Rate or Absolute Cold?
  Cardiovascular events track the rate of temperature drop rather than absolute cold.
• Theory 09 · Roots or Productivity?
  Soil carbon tracks root biomass because root carbon enters mineral soil directly.
• Theory 10 · Sky View or Waste Heat?
  Urban heat island intensity follows sky-view factor because geometry controls radiative loss.
• Theory 12 · Variance or Mean Speed?
  Fatalities track speed variance more than mean speed.

The rival is the same mechanism at another scale

• Theory 20 · Network or Individual Traits?
  Vaccine hesitancy clusters socially rather than distributing with individual traits.
• Theory 22 · Build It or Predict It?
  The minimal gene set can only be established by constructing a cell, because redundancy masks essentiality.
• Theory 18 · Noise or Mean?
  Cellular drug response is predicted by expression noise better than by mean expression.
• Theory 17 · Strain Turnover or Redundancy?
  Strain replacement changes function before species composition changes.
• Theory 23 · Variability or Specificity?
  Practice variability improves transfer at the cost of immediate performance.
• Theory 21 · Whole Map or Local Rules?
  Wiring principles require a whole-brain map because the cost-benefit trade-off is global.

The rival is a confound

• Theory 05 · Humidity or Air Conditioning?
  Electricity demand peaks track dew point rather than temperature because cooling load is latent.
• Theory 07 · Turnover or Effort?
  Community turnover detected by eDNA precedes species loss.
• Theory 08 · Placebo or Regression?
  Placebo response in pain trials reflects genuine expectancy effects.
• Theory 01 · Lag or Detection Bias?
  Observed range shifts lag climate velocity by an amount set by dispersal rate.
• Theory 04 · Staffing or Case Mix?
  Readmission rates reflect discharge-day staffing rather than patient complexity.
• Theory 02 · Selection or Heterogeneity?
  Published effect sizes exceed replication effects because of selection on significance.
• Theory 03 · Default Information or Liquidity?
  Credit spreads predict default better than ratings because they aggregate dispersed information.

The rival says the effect is not there

• Theory 29 · Direction or Subtraction?
  Detection below the neutrino floor requires directional information because the background is irreducible.
• Theory 27 · Pilot or Extrapolation?
  Fusion performance cannot be settled without a reactor-scale pilot because the physics is coupled.
• Theory 25 · Peak or Plateau?
  Immunotherapy response peaks at intermediate tumour mutation burden because high burden causes exhaustion.
• Theory 28 · Baseline or Anomaly?
  Neutrino mass ordering requires a long baseline because the matter effect accumulates with distance.
• Theory 26 · Quantum or Good Enough?
  Strongly correlated materials cannot be predicted classically at useful accuracy.

Index narrowed to the focused science collection. Biological and ecological population dynamics, genetics, physiology and engineering are retained. Source numbering remains historical; no remaining hypothesis has been promoted to a finding.