Run R²D
Provide AI with the mathematics. Then ask it about science.
AI can already reason over mathematics.
R2D provides a mathematical interface for converting scientific objects into a common boundary-dependent representation.
You do not need specialized R2D software to begin.
Download the current R2D Canon, load it into an AI system that can work with large documents, provide the R2D instruction below, and then ask AI about a scientific law, paradox, paper, dataset, or unsolved problem.
1. Load the Canon
Download the current PDF of the R2D Canon from Zenodo and upload it to the AI system you want to use.
DOWNLOAD THE CURRENT R²D CANON →
The Canon is the authoritative source. It contains the definitions, formal architecture, physical mappings, applications, and addenda needed for the AI to reason within R2D rather than immediately translating the framework back into conventional physical ontology.
2. Give the AI the R2D instruction
Copy and paste the following instruction:
Use the attached R²D Canon as the authoritative source for this analysis.
Work within the definitions and mathematical architecture of R²D before translating the problem into conventional physical ontology.
Treat scientific objects, macrostates, microstates, multiplicity, possibility, constraint, recurrence, closure, and recursive replacement as boundary-dependent quantities as defined in the Canon.
When analyzing the scientific problem I provide:
- Identify the scientific object and the boundary at which it is defined.
- Identify which quantities are directly readable at that boundary.
- Separate the empirical mathematical relation from the physical ontology conventionally assigned to it.
- Determine whether the relation can be represented in the R²D architecture without changing the established empirical law.
- Identify any change in state domain produced by changing boundary or scale.
- Distinguish formal deductions from physical mappings, empirical calibrations, hypotheses, and speculation.
- State clearly if the proposed R²D interpretation conflicts with an established scientific result.
Do not assume that R²D is correct. Try to break the mapping.
3. Give it a problem
Then ask the question you actually care about.
For example:
Apply R²D to the Navier–Stokes singularity problem. Strip away the inherited spatial ontology where possible, preserve the Navier–Stokes mathematics, and determine what changes at the boundary where the continuous description fails.
Or:
Analyze the Einstein field equation using R²D. Separate the empirical and geometric content of the equation from assumptions about which quantities are primitive.
Or simply:
Here is a scientific paper. What does R²D see that the conventional interpretation does not?
What to Look For
A useful R2D analysis should not merely rename familiar scientific quantities.
It should expose whether a change of boundary changes the mathematical state domain, whether a familiar physical object is a projection of a more primitive count relation, and whether apparently different scientific descriptions can be deprojected onto the same mathematical architecture.
Most importantly, it must preserve the empirical science.
If an R2D interpretation requires changing an established law in order to make the framework work, that is evidence against the interpretation.
Don’t Believe R2D. Run It.
R2D was developed through repeated attempts to make the framework fail against established science.
That remains the recommended way to use it.
Load the Canon. Give AI a problem. Try to break R2D.