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Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
BLAKE: [To Avon] Now do you know what you're looking for?
AVON: [Shortly] Yes. [Moves off towards the equipment.]
BLAKE: [To Gan] All the equipment here?
GAN: All here.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/52 B7B6

Geometric Interpretation of the Redshift Evolution of H_0(z)
Seokcheon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07454 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.07454 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.07454
arXiv:2511.07454v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent analyses of the Master Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) sample have revealed a mild redshift dependence in the inferred local Hubble parameter, often expressed as tilde{H}_0(z) = H_0 (1 z)^{-\alpha}, where \alpha quantifies possible departures from the standard cosmological time dilation relation. In this work, we show that such an empirical scaling can be interpreted as a purely geometric effect arising from a small, gauge-dependent normalization of cosmic time within the Robertson-Walker metric. This interpretation naturally unifies the observed redshift evolution of tilde{H}_0(z) and the corresponding deviation in SN Ia light-curve durations under a single geometric time-normalization framework. We demonstrate that this mapping leaves all background distances--linked to the Hubble radius in the general-relativistic frame--unchanged, while the apparent evolution in SN Ia luminosity distances arises from the redshift dependence of the Chandrasekhar mass. The result provides a unified and observationally consistent explanation of the mild Hubble-tension trend as a manifestation of the geometric structure of cosmic time rather than a modification of the expansion dynamics.
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Expanding the Landscape of Exotic Muon Decays
Admir Greljo, Ajdin Palavri\'c, Mirsad Tunja, Jure Zupan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08674 https://arxiv.o…

Expanding the Landscape of Exotic Muon Decays
We chart new-physics models that produce exotic, high-multiplicity muon decays featuring prompt or displaced $e^+e^-$ pairs and/or photons, with or without missing energy, such as $μ\to 5e$, $μ\to 7e$, etc. Starting from an effective-field-theory perspective, we estimate the reach on the ultraviolet scale and identify conditions under which lower-multiplicity modes are suppressed or occur at comparable rates. We then construct explicit realizations in minimal dark-sector models with light, fe…

Loop quantum inflation with inverse volume corrections in light of ACT data
Farough Parvizi, Soma Heydari, Milad Solbi, Kayoomars Karami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03882 https:/…

Loop quantum inflation with inverse volume corrections in light of ACT data
Within the framework of loop quantum cosmology (LQC), we investigate the effect of inverse volume corrections on the low scale spontaneously broken supersymmetric (SB SUSY) and exponential inflationary potentials. The LQC modifications to the Friedmann equations and cosmological perturbation parameters are employed to assess the observational viability of these models against recent data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). Our results indicate that in contrary to the standard model of i…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: I'd have given odds Egrorian'd try to pull something! What's the escape velocity of this thing?
AVON: I don't know. Why don't you ask Orac?
VILA: Eh? [Avon opens panel, revealing Orac on the shuttle]
[Biodome]

Strategic Experimentation with Private Payoffs
J\'er\^ome Renault, Eilon Solan, Nicolas Vieille
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06180 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.06180 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.06180
arXiv:2512.06180v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study a strategic experimentation game with exponential bandits, in which experiment outcomes are private. The equilibrium amount of experimentation is always higher than in the benchmark case where experiment outcomes are publicly observed. In addition, for pure equilibria, the equilibrium amount of experimentation is at least socially optimal, and possibly higher. We provide a tight bound on the degree of over-experimentation. The analysis rests on a new form of encouragement effect, according to which a player may hide the absence of a success to encourage future experimentation by the other player, which incentivizes current experimentation.
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Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
TARRANT: Have we got a choice? [A small explosion goes off nearby.]
DAYNA: Looks as though we have.
TARRANT: Let's get up there.
[At the top of the ladder.]
DAYNA: Avon! Soolin!
TARRANT: [*inaudible*]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/127

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
TARRANT: All right, I'll keep it a secret.
[They resume their descent.]
TARRANT: Look, we must be at least four levels below the landing silo by now.
DAYNA: At least.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/395 B7B2

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: You really think things through, don't you, Avon? If we do need it, we won't have time to get it.
AVON: Well then, let's hope we don't need it. [Smiles]
[Scene: Scorpio]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/84 B7B2

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
DEETA: What do you think?
MAX: It's all been according to the rules.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/161 B7B1