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Ricardo’s Einstein Audit is a proposed score combining paradox, energy and gravitational-wave checks for hypothetical faster-than-light ideas. Passing is not evidence of faster-than-light physics or a guarantee of causal safety.
Author’s hypothesis. The Einstein Audit is Ricardo Maldonado’s proposed way to assess hypothetical faster-than-light ideas using a combined score. It considers possible cause-and-effect paradoxes, extra energy in the early universe, and consistency between gravitational-wave measurements. A hidden sector means proposed particles or fields that barely interact with ordinary matter.
Ricardo’s 15 May 2026 release, version 1.2.1, describes methods and software. It freezes the steps for replacing demonstration inputs with real data, with safeguards against treating practice files as observations. The release reports no evidence for faster-than-light physics and no constraints from its required real-data pipeline.
Einstein Audit and Einstein-allowed are Ricardo’s names. A proposal that meets his score has passed that assessment; this does not establish that nature permits it or that Einstein endorsed it. The release concerns faster-than-light proposals separately from HD-Blast.
Speed alone does not describe how often hypothetical signals could reverse cause and effect. Ricardo’s framework considers the frequency and severity of such situations. It weights that contribution by the proposed sector’s extra energy, then combines it with the other checks.
This needs a careful distinction: the score does not require every cause to come before its effect. Passing can leave paradox-capable cases. Some proposed sectors may also be beyond the method’s reach. Passing is therefore no guarantee of safe time travel or faster-than-light communication.
Pulsars are spinning neutron stars, compact remnants of stars. Radio beams sweeping past Earth produce pulses. After known effects are accounted for, regular pulse arrival times act as clocks. Gravitational waves can stretch and squeeze the space along their paths, shifting those arrival times. Astronomers compare many pulsars to study these changes.
In the proposed Audit, agreement between pulsar-timing inferences contributes to the score. Those measurements affect how much room a proposed sector has in the framework; they do not measure faster-than-light particles or establish faster-than-light travel.
For the dated limitations and corrections, read Ricardo’s free research review, reviewed 30 September 2026. A repository release and its accompanying software are not peer review or a discovery.
This answer describes one author’s proposed test. The May 2026 release identifies a Testability Gate: some proposed sectors lie beyond this audit’s reach under its assumptions. That does not show they are impossible to test forever. The release’s missing real-data inputs are a separate limitation of its present workflow.
The definition above concerns interaction with ordinary matter. Faster-than-light behavior is an extra hypothetical assumption in Ricardo’s Audit. His 15 May 2026 release reports no evidence for that behavior. Weak interaction alone does not establish the proposed change in speed.
Ricardo links his proposed causality score to extra energy in the early universe. His 5 February 2026 description says that, for the kind of model discussed there, a finite bound exists only above an extra-energy threshold. This is a condition in his proposal, not a measured limit on hidden particles. The May release supplies no completed real-data constraints.
How did the author check whether his matter-antimatter number match was just a coincidence?
In his February 4, 2026 preprint, Ricardo compared his proposed matter–antimatter number match with thousands of other formulas built from quark-coupling…
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