The Quaia quasar-dipole excess (raw D = 0.0208, 9.9σ over shot noise) is not cosmological: adversarial magnitude and galactic-latitude cuts collapse it to D = 0.0066, inside the kinematic expectation band.
The most dramatic raw number in the whole hunt — a 9.9σ dipole excess — was fed through an adversarial cut battery and dissolved into the ordinary kinematic dipole. Recorded as a self-kill and kept public as the registry's model case.
AUTOPSY REPORT — killed (self, the most honored outcome here)
Date: 2026-07-09 · Epitaph: "The adversarial battery did its job: 9.9σ of raw excess collapsed to a kinematic D = 0.0066 under magnitude and latitude cuts. The dipole belonged to the catalog, not the cosmos."
Falsify-box — how to kill this claim
Verification record — every quoted number, re-run 2026-07-09
| quantity | measured | verdict |
|---|---|---|
| raw Quaia dipole | D = 0.0208, 9.9σ | MATCH |
| dipole under adversarial cuts | D = 0.0066, kinematic band | MATCH |
Provenance
script status: PRESENT
datasets: Quaia · CatWISE (literature comparison only — the Secrest et al. 4.9σ excess; run_tilt.py does NOT read CatWISE data, it uses Quaia + Planck SMICA) · claim-scripts (downloadable from /data — run it yourself)
re-run: 2026-07-09
Edges
Status, honestly
kill test fired: excess does not survive adversarial cuts. Status here is computed from evidence — the author cannot set it, and neither can we. Independent reproduction would move it; nothing else will.
What this claim's own script draws. These are the founder's committed outputs — the same plots the script regenerates on any machine that runs it.
