Edge of Knowledge

Research on failure, uncertainty, and responsible action where optimization breaks

Edge of Knowledge is a public research series examining how systems fail when assumptions quietly collapse, incentives misalign, and certainty becomes dangerous. These documents are not product proposals, investment theses, or policy mandates. They are regime-bounded analyses intended to clarify limits, surface risk, and govern action where traditional optimization no longer applies.

I. Doctrine — Governing Action Under Uncertainty

• Governing Action at the Edge of Knowledge
• Morphology Trajectory Integrity (MTI-1)
• Untracked Configurational Energy Landscapes in Polymer Durability
• Non-Commutative Morphology Trajectories in Polymer Durability
• Epistemic Lock-In After Risk Acknowledgment

II. Governance-Driven Failure Modes

• Procedural Entrenchment
• Action Threshold Collapse
• Fragmented Responsibility Disjunction

III. Failure Visibility & Accountability

• Interfacial-Debond–Controlled Failure (General Class)
• Materials That Quietly Prevent Failure
• Materials That Make Neglect Impossible
• Irreversible Infrastructure Exposure Marker
• Phase-Locked Wear Surfaces
• Material-Encoded Truth
• Intrinsic Cognitive-Drift Signaling Materials
• Signaling Before Failure
• Thermal Indicator Paint for Food Safety

IV. Boundary Research — Physically Allowed, Non-Scalable

• Damage-Activated Nitrogen Fixation
• Salt-Gradient Desalination Wick

V. Validation-First Materials Exploration

• High-Crystallinity Polyamide Fibers
• Thermoplastic Polyurethane Elastomer Networks
• Polymer Discovery (Validation-First, Non-Inventive)
• Semi-Interpenetrating Network (Semi-IPN)
• Mineral-Filled Polyolefin Barrier Films
• Non-Commutative Morphology Encoding in Semicrystalline Polyolefins
• Boundary-Encoded Interfacial Persistence (BEIP v1) — Pre-Registered Protocol
• Human–AI Co-Agency Boundary — Minimal Decisive Experiment (Protocol)
• Inflammation-Suppressing Human Micro-Environment Polymer
• Suppressing Transferable Inflammatory Signaling in Indoor Micro-Environments
• Passive Infrastructure Polymers for Irreversible Interruption of Organophosphate Surface Transfer Pathways
• Irreversible Gradient-Ratcheting Composites (IGRC)

VI. Formal Epistemic Obstructions (Mathematics)

• Riemann Hypothesis: Critical Line Structural Obstruction
• Collatz Conjecture: Universal Descent Obstruction
• Hodge Conjecture: Algebraicity Obstruction

VII. Operational Drift & Degradation

• Maintenance Drift and Degradation Dynamics

VIII. Epistemic Instrumentation — Detection Before Damage

• Detection Before Damage: Formal Reduction

IX. Adversarial & Incentive-Corrupted Regimes

• Adversarial & Incentive-Corrupted Regimes

X. Meta-Failure of Knowledge Systems

• Meta-Failure of Knowledge Systems
• The Boundary of Meaning vs Authority

XI. Boundary Tests — Pre-Registered, Decisive Experiments

• Boundary-Encoded Interfacial Persistence (BEIP v1)
• Human–AI Co-Agency Boundary — Minimal Decisive Experiment
• Parent–State Emergency Intervention Boundary (PSEIB-v1)
• Government Data Access Responsibility Boundary (GDARB-v1)
• Corporate–Shareholder–Environment Responsibility Boundary (CSEB-v1)
• Auditor–Management Responsibility Boundary: Known but Unreported Risk (AMURB-v1)
• Simulated Consciousness Boundary Test (SCBT-v1)

Edge of Knowledge is a public research series. Documents are updated only by explicit revision and remain accessible for epistemic continuity.