A glitch is not a mystery and it is not evidence of a hidden origin. It is a fact that the accepted history already contains, but which familiarity has made emotionally and analytically cheap. The register exists to make those facts expensive again—long enough to ask what would actually distinguish an ordinary explanation from a more consequential one.
The anti-teleology rule
Nothing enters this register merely because it appears on the successful path. Before a detail can carry provenance weight, we ask whether physics or experiment shows that it mattered, whether alternatives could have worked, and whether later knowledge has made the historical choice look more precise than it really was.
Nothing enters this register merely because it appears on the successful path. Before a detail can carry provenance weight, we ask whether physics or experiment shows that it mattered, whether alternatives could have worked, and whether later knowledge has made the historical choice look more precise than it really was.
Every entry therefore keeps two readings alive. The conventional reading is stated as strongly as we can make it. The alternative reading does not become a claim; it tells us what the same fact would mean if the familiar causal story were incomplete. The last field names the evidence that could decide between them.