The papers behind the machine.
Everything on this site is the readable surface of a working research corpus — papers that are versioned, cross-linked, and revised in public as the design moves. They are engineering documents, not marketing: where they disagree with the website, the papers win.
Every claim carries a register.
The corpus enforces one discipline throughout: claims are tagged by their evidence status, candidate designs are tested against pre-registered criteria, and every design decision is recorded with its full history — nothing is silently rewritten. When a simpler design beat a more exotic one in a frozen test, the papers say so, and the winner is in the machine.
Demonstrated in published experiments — ours or the field's. The machine is built from an unusual density of this category.
Follows from measured physics by calculation. Checkable by anyone with the same equations.
Not yet demonstrated. Named as such, kept off the product claims, and attached to a concrete gate that would settle it.
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The Replicator — Principles
What the machine is, the eight principles it runs on, and where each one is worked out in full. Written to be read first — including a version for the campfire.
The Replicator — Architecture
The machine stated size-free: how many surfaces, how many channels, in what arrangement, and why — counts, ratios and ladders rather than millimetres. Includes the boundary-coverage ladder the whole product family climbs.
Hardware Specification RH-1
The free-standing instance: Ø460 × 1650 mm, three plate assemblies, two mirrored chambers, the rotating glass enclosure, and every number the current design commits to.
Mechanical Construction & Wiring
What atoms go where: plate assemblies layer by layer, the windings and their two-feed rule, the energy-recovery loop, and the three-step power-up whose state the machine wears as light.
The three modes
Scan — how the machine sees
No camera, no lens: holographic tomography from the whole boundary at once, the chord extraction pipeline, and the sensing ladder from wavelength-limited imaging to λ/100-class localization.
Assemble — how the machine builds
Slice, feed, trap, move, weld, check — and the placement-rate argument that makes whole-boundary fields mandatory: no serial machine can ever be a replicator.
Dissolve — how the machine unbuilds
Time reversal and coherent perfect absorption: the object's echo played backwards until every weld releases — the mode with the most discovery ahead, and a concrete experimental program to claim it.
The two carriers
The Two Carriers
Every degree of freedom photons and phonons offer — thirteen each — with an audit of which ones the design spends, and the discipline that a DOF unnamed is a DOF that cannot be deliberately spent.
The Phonons — sound as muscle
The force carrier at element level: throat, horn, gyroid and face; the Gor'kov trap; and the athermal softening rung — flow without melt — anchored in measured art from 1955 onward.
The Photons — light as address
The information carrier: spiral slot launchers, the bidirectional optical stem, single-cycle toroidal pulses that carry their own ruler, and light as the machine's fingertips.
Information, software, limits
The Field Compiler — RSW-1
The slicer whose output is boundary fields instead of toolpaths, whose viewport is the machine's build volume, and whose governing law is that the emulator's API is the hardware's API.
The Replicator at the Limit
Each subsystem placed against the bound physics will not move — Landauer, Shannon, Abbe, baryon conservation — and the honest arithmetic separating the replicator from the transporter.
Memory & Compute in the Holographic Machine
Why the build chamber must not double as the computer, terabytes per cubic centimetre counted correctly, and a bench plan whose steps each carry a blocking gate.
The Stores
The pantry argument: four boring staples and a trace rack cover almost all of periodic demand, everything kept in its most boring chemical form — boring = safe = dense = pattern-free.