{
  "$schema": "../../schemas/experiment.schema.json",
  "schema_version": "1.0.0",
  "id": "EDC-E-0001",
  "hypothesis_id": "EDC-H-0001",
  "title": "First assignment: a bounded framing audit",
  "status": "proposed",
  "evidence_kind": "analysis_protocol",
  "hypothesis": "Does density address the binding constraint better than feasible alternatives in one specified service?",
  "physical_mechanism": "More usable stored energy for a fixed system mass or volume can matter only where that constraint limits the service.",
  "required_assumptions": [
    "The case, service quality, comparators and constraints are fixed before evaluation.",
    "Evidence is licensed, traceable and comparable."
  ],
  "predicted_measurable_result": null,
  "cheapest_discriminating_experiment": [
    "Select one useful service with a relevant practitioner; record beneficiary and unmet need.",
    "Register functional unit, boundary, geography, lifetime, baseline, alternatives, minimum improvement and hard constraints before reviewing comparative outcomes.",
    "Collect source-level evidence and prior art; record missing data and failed approaches.",
    "Compare feasible interventions at matched service quality and reliability; propagate uncertainty and test sensitivity.",
    "Ask an independent reviewer to reproduce calculations and challenge excluded boundaries.",
    "Publish evidence and a retain, narrow, replace or unresolved decision; revise the next question."
  ],
  "required_equipment": [
    "computer",
    "access to source literature and datasets"
  ],
  "expected_uncertainty": "Not yet quantified; register measurement ranges, source quality, dependence and model sensitivity before comparison.",
  "safety_considerations": "Desk analysis only. This protocol authorizes no physical experiment.",
  "falsification_result": "A feasible alternative robustly dominates density, density does not address the binding constraint, or it fails a preregistered threshold or safety/environmental constraint.",
  "replication_procedure": "Freeze source snapshots or checksums, licensed data, code, units and assumptions; a separate reviewer reproduces the comparison and records disagreement and source overlap.",
  "preregistration": {
    "registered_at": null,
    "service": null,
    "functional_unit": null,
    "boundary": null,
    "baseline": null,
    "thresholds": null,
    "missing_reason": "Protocol is proposed, not ready to execute or an experimental result."
  },
  "last_updated": "2026-09-10"
}