Advanced Rediscovery · Exotic Science Timeline
Advanced Rediscovery · Exotic Science Timeline
People have been reporting machines that run without fuel, weights that change on a scale, and heat that no chemistry accounts for — since 1150. This is the record of those reports: what was claimed, by whom, and how well each one was actually documented.
It takes no position on whether any effect is real. Each entry carries a coordinate describing its evidence — how it was recorded, whether anyone reproduced it, what was controlled for, who examined it. Well-documented claims and thin ones sit in the same table, in the same vocabulary, and the difference becomes visible instead of asserted.
Newest first. Click any entry to expand it.
| Date▼ | Claim▼ | Who▼ | Class▼ | Evidence | Profile▼ |
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Every entry is graded on six ordered axes. The grades describe the documentation, never the truth of the claim — a carefully measured result nobody could reproduce and a vague anecdote look different here, which is the entire point.
D Documentation — second-hand account through peer-reviewed paper
R Replication — never attempted through independently reproduced
C Controls — none through a full energy balance
P Provenance — anonymous through adversarial examination on record
T Theory — whether an established mechanism explains it
Q Quantification — qualitative through measured with uncertainty
Higher means better documented. x means not assessed — which is not a zero: unexamined and poorly evidenced are different things, and conflating them would be the easiest way to lie with this table.
T is the anomaly test. A zero means no established mechanism is on record — a property of the documentation, not a verdict about reality.
EP-1 solitary — one source, no controls
EP-2 demonstrative — public demo, no data
EP-3 lab-contested — measured and disputed
EP-4 historical-anecdotal
EP-5 orthodox-covered — explained by established physics
Orange arcs connect a claim to the examination that tested it.
Each mark is one entry, placed by date and grouped by the class of effect claimed. Eras are drawn to equal width rather than to scale, so the sparse early centuries stay legible beside the crowded modern ones.
The classification standard behind it — the registries, the axis definitions and the corpus itself — is public and kept separate from this page: EQO, Epistemic Quantization of Observables. Quantization there means discretization onto a finite lattice, as in signal processing; it is not a quantum-mechanical term, and an observable is a documented observation rather than an operator.
The corpus was compiled with the assistance of a large language model from publicly documented claims. Every record carries its own documentation and provenance grades, plus a separate confidence field for the compiler's own recall. Verify against primary sources before citing. This is not a caveat bolted on at the end — the instrument exists to make exactly this kind of grading explicit, and exempting itself would be incoherent.
Historical figures appear by the record only, with observation kept separate from interpretation. Where a legal outcome is reported but could not be checked against a primary source, the entry says so rather than asserting it. A build fails automatically if any entry alleges wrongdoing by a named person without a source.
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Attribute as: Dr.-Ing. Paul Wilhelm / Advanced Rediscovery, Exotic Science Timeline, CC BY 4.0.