Credit to the physicists

TRPG is a perspective on what these people found. In Matthew's words, he "created nothing in essence", and his hope is that small adjustments can show that everyone was right.

Matthew and Melissa's rule: everyone who figured out the physics gets credit. Their theory is a perspective on what they found, and the hope is that small adjustments can show EVERYONE was right. The work used so far rests on:

• Einstein (general relativity, E = mc²); Tolman, Oppenheimer and Volkoff (TOV star equations, 1939)

• Chodos, Jaffe, Johnson, Thorn and Weisskopf (MIT bag model, 1974); Farhi and Jaffe (bag window, 1984); Witten (strange quark matter, 1984)

• Thomas, Théberge and Miller (cloudy bag, 1980s); Read, Lackey, Owen and Friedman (neutron star equation of state fits, 2009); Hinderer (tidal Love numbers, 2008)

• LIGO and Virgo (GW170817), NICER, and the PSR J0740+6620 timing teams (the star measurements)

• Cabibbo (1963); Kobayashi and Maskawa (1973); Gatto, Sartori and Tonin (√(m_d/m_s), 1968)

• Higgs, Englert, Brout, Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble (the Higgs mechanism, 1964); Koide (lepton mass relation, 1981)

• Eddington, Dirac and Weinberg (large-number relations); Planck and de Broglie/Compton (natural scales)

• The Particle Data Group (all particle values) and CODATA (constants)

• Feynman, whose writing is where Matthew first met Einstein's equivalence idea that standing still on Earth means being pushed away from free fall (the basis of goal 3 in Chapter L).

• Foot (geometric 45° reading of Koide, 1994) and Brannen (120° circle form and δ = 2/9, 2006).

• von Laue (pressure balance, 1911); Polyakov (D-term and stability, 2003); Burkert, Elouadrhiri and Girod (measured pressure inside the proton, 2018); Neubelt, Schweitzer and co-workers (bag-model D-term, 2020).

• Schwarzschild (1916); Kerr (1963); Buchdahl (8/9 limit, 1959); Vishveshwara and Teukolsky (black hole ringing, 1970s); Berti, Cardoso and Will (ringdown fits, 2006); Abedi, Dykaar and Afshordi (echoes, 2017); Westerweck and others (echo checks, 2018).

• Hilbert (1915); Yang and Mills (1954); Dirac (1928); Yukawa (1935); Friedberg and Lee (soliton bag, 1977); Shifman, Vainshtein and Zakharov (QCD vacuum, 1979); Morningstar and Peardon, and Chen and others (glueball mass, 1999 and 2006); Chandrasekhar (1964); Harrison, Thorne, Wakano and Wheeler (1965); Friedman (1978); Goebel (1972); Cardoso and others (2008, 2009).

• NuFIT collaboration (neutrino splittings, 2024); DESI collaboration (neutrino mass limit, 2025); JUNO collaboration (neutrino ordering).

• Gell-Mann and Low (1954) and Wilson (1971) (running with scale); Noether (1918) (symmetries give conservation laws).

• Gauss and Bonnet (total curvature); Morse (counting peaks, saddles and troughs); Planck collaboration (flatness, 2018); Unruh (1981) and Barceló, Liberati and Visser (2005) (analog gravity); Rivero (2011) and Rodejohann and Zhang (2011) (quark triples).

• Eddington (1920) and Gordon (1923) (light in gravity as refraction); Shapiro (1964), the Viking team (1979) and Bertotti, Iess and Tortora (Cassini, 2003) (radar delay); Bloch (1928) and Kronig and Penney (1931) (bands); Anderson (1958) (localization).

• Pathria (1972) and Popławski (2010) (universe as black hole); Fardon, Nelson and Weiner (2004) (neutrinos and dark energy); DESI collaboration (evolving dark energy hint, 2024–2025); Clowe and others (Bullet Cluster, 2006).

• Soldner (1801); Nordström (1913); Eddington (1922) and Will (1971) (the γ measure); Feynman (Lectures on Gravitation, 1962–63), Weinberg (1964) and Deser (1970) (gravity forced by spin-2 uniqueness).

• Goldstone (1961) (massless ripples of uniform media); Weinberg and Witten (1980) (limits on composite gravity); Sakharov (1967) (gravity as the stiffness of space); Visser (1998) (acoustic geometry); MICROSCOPE team (2022) (equivalence principle); LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (graviton mass limit, 2021).

• Friedmann (1922) and Lemaître (1927) (expansion); Schrödinger (1935) and Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (1935) (entanglement); Heisenberg (1927) and Bohr (1928) (uncertainty and complementarity); Bohm (1952); Bell (1964); Aspect (1982); Clauser and Zeilinger (Nobel 2022).

• Jacobson (1995, 2016) (Einstein's equations from entanglement and thermodynamics); Ryu and Takayanagi (2006); Van Raamsdonk (2010); Maldacena and Susskind (ER = EPR, 2013); Bekenstein (1973) and Hawking (1975) (black hole entropy).

• Zeh (1970), Joos and Zeh (1985) and Zurek (1981, 2003) (decoherence); Karinthy (1929), Milgram (1967) and Watts and Strogatz (1998) (small worlds); Swingle (2012) (tensor networks); Coffman, Kundu and Wootters (2000) (monogamy of entanglement).

• Gao, Jafferis and Wall (2017) (traversable wormholes); Bombelli, Koul, Lee and Sorkin (1986) and Srednicki (1993) (area law); Geng and Marshak (1989) and Minahan, Ramond and Warner (1990) (charges fixed by anomaly cancellation).

• Hurwitz (1898) (the four division algebras); Dixon (1994), Furey (2018) and Todorov and Dubois-Violette (2018) (forces from octonions); Connes and Chamseddine (1996–2007) (the Standard Model from geometry).

• Fermi (1934) (weak decay); Jacobson (1994) and Susskind and Uglum (1994) (entanglement and G); Tarrach, Chetyrkin and Vermaseren and co-workers (quark mass running).

• Chapter Q (14 Nov, evening): DeGrand, Jaffe, Johnson and Kiskis (1975 bag fit); Théberge, Thomas and Miller (cloudy bag, 1980); Chew and Low (static pion couplings, 1956); Donoghue and Johnson (centre-of-mass correction, 1980); Freedman and McLerran (1977); Fraga, Pisarski and Schaffner-Bielich (2001); Alford, Braby, Paris and Reddy (2005); Alford, Rajagopal and Wilczek, and Rapp, Schäfer, Shuryak and Velkovsky (colour superconductivity, 1998); Bär and Wiese (colours and anomalies, 2001); Glashow, Iliopoulos and Maiani (flavour-changing suppression, 1970).

This list grows with each piece added.