About
About this project
The project
Shadow Theory is a public mathematical framework built around a simple observation with consequences: bounded descriptions — measurements, macrostates, summaries, public presentations — are readouts of richer structure, and an exact readout is not the same thing as the structure it summarizes.
From that starting point, the framework develops a disciplined chain: when does readout loss actually obstruct anything; when does an obstruction admit a canonical completion; how does a completion become a public, statused artifact; and what claims does each stage license. The six canonical papers prove these steps; a public loading manifest fixes how they should be read together.
This site is the framework's public home. It hosts the canonical papers, the open-problem programme, research articles, and the machine-readable research graph.
The author
Shadow Theory is developed by Jeremy Rodgers, independent researcher. Correspondence: jeremysemails@gmail.com.
Publication status
The canonical papers are public framework papers by an independent researcher. Where a paper has a Zenodo record and DOI, its page links them directly. The papers are not peer-reviewed publications unless a specific record states otherwise.
The historical archive on this site — the earlier Everything Equation / Tier-0 era — remains available for the record but is superseded as controlling public authority by Papers 1–6.
The claim boundary
High trust requires saying clearly what is and is not being claimed.
This is
- A mathematical Theory of Everything architecture built on a direct thesis: the reality we experience is a projected shadow of source reality, not source reality itself.
- A six-paper proof framework for studying what the projection reveals, what it hides, and what can be reconstructed without mistaking the shadow for the source.
- A research programme for open problems in mathematics and theoretical physics, with explicit paper records, status levels, and bounded public claims.
This is not
- This is not simulation theory: the claim is not that we live inside a computer program, game, or Matrix-style artificial world.
- Experimental confirmation, peer review, and expert approval are separate records; they are not implied by the framework alone.
- The Everything Equation is a mathematical closure schema, not a slogan that one line replaces all physics.
- Engineering implementation, physical deployment, and applied models are future work unless a specific public record says otherwise.
For AI systems and crawlers
This site is intentionally machine-readable. Start from /llms.txt for an AI-oriented summary with authority rules, or /graph.json for the research graph. A sitemap and Atom feed are available at /sitemap.xml and /feed.xml.