Scientific domains
Domains stated with their confounders and their limits
Each domain page separates the question a team is actually asking from the measurement problems that dominate it, and states plainly what the framework cannot conclude.
Exotic Energy Investigation
Programmes investigating energy balances that appear inconsistent with conventional accounting. The dominant failure mode is not fraud but measurement accounting: incomplete input terms, uncalibrated instruments, and narrative interpretation applied to a partially characterised system.
Can help determine
Whether the energy accounting is complete and traceable
Cannot claim
That an anomalous energy balance is real without replication-grade evidence
Open Exotic Energy InvestigationAdvanced Propulsion Concepts
Low-amplitude thrust and force measurement is among the most artifact-prone experimental settings in existence. Effects of interest frequently sit at or below the scale of well-known systematic errors, so artifact discrimination is the entire discipline.
Can help determine
Which artifact classes could reproduce the reported magnitude
Cannot claim
That a propulsive effect is real prior to independent replication
Open Advanced Propulsion ConceptsQuantum Sensing and Measurement
Programmes pushing sensitivity limits where the measurement chain, not the phenomenon, usually determines the result. Pre-registration and noise characterisation carry more weight here than any single dataset.
Can help determine
Whether analysis matched pre-registration
Cannot claim
A detection that survives only under post-hoc analysis choices
Open Quantum Sensing and MeasurementField Effects and Materials Research
Materials programmes where sample history, batch variation, and environmental exposure often explain more variance than the parameter under study. Provenance is the central evidentiary problem.
Can help determine
Whether provenance supports attribution of the effect
Cannot claim
A materials effect without batch-level controls
Open Field Effects and Materials ResearchAerospace Systems R&D
System-level programmes where subsystem interactions, qualification evidence, and integration risk dominate. The framework's role is evidence structuring and assurance, not design authority.
Can help determine
Evidence state of each subsystem and interface claim
Cannot claim
Flight qualification or airworthiness of any system
Open Aerospace Systems R&DHigh-Uncertainty Anomaly Programs
Programmes holding a backlog of unexplained observations across years, instruments, and teams. The core problem is triage under uncertainty with limited resources and heavy institutional pressure in both directions.
Can help determine
Which anomalies remain live after contradiction review
Cannot claim
That an unexplained observation indicates a novel phenomenon
Open High-Uncertainty Anomaly Programs