Traceable updates
Objective
Update every affected result when new knowledge arrives, and keep a reproducible record of what changed and why.
Mechanism shown See the results How stages are defined
Calibration knowledge improves over time, and every improvement changes results that people may already rely on. Finding every affected result, and being able to reproduce any earlier version exactly, is an engineering problem in its own right.
Anyone relying on a result needs to know which version they used and why it later changed. Improvement without a record undermines the trust it is meant to build.
We follow each new piece of evidence through to every result it affects and to a before-and-after record, then reproduce published results from their recorded inputs and versions. This is assessed separately from the physical questions: a complete record does not by itself show that the physics is right.
Every change to a published result has a recorded cause, no affected result is missed, and any published version can be reproduced from its recorded inputs.
Each result is dated and published on its own page with its data, conditions and limits. Results that went against the objective are listed here with the rest.
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Traceable updates recover a known answer and leave an audit record
The update and audit mechanism works where the answer is known, and the production path leaves a complete record while refusing to act on insufficient evidence. That supports a mechanism-shown stage. It does not yet demonstrate selective reprocessing, republication or a reproducible before-and-after product change.
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