Six phases, dual-track Phase 2 (matter-shell ‖ Casimir), with explicit reopening criteria for every closed item.
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Assemble the theoretical context and formulate the boundary-mode hypothesis. All three foundational tasks closed during the project's seed conversations (March 30 / April 4).
Extract the mathematical structure of the Alcubierre metric in the subluminal regime and decide whether boundary-value methods apply. Disposition (Session 15): partial yes — ADM constraint equations are well-posed and gauge-clean (Tasks 1.7, 1.10) and admit a multi-mode positive-energy WEC+DEC-passing solution at the static smooth-N level (Phase 2D Sessions 11-15), but no useful classical warp-drive interior is recovered within the static slice. Phase 1 exits with content — the framework is the right tool — but the practical Phase 2 work has been running in parallel since Session 5.
Closed within the static + Alcubierre-shift + asymptotically-flat-vacuum slice. All 14 listed tasks (2A.0-2A.15, with 2A.9 split into 2A.9a/9b in Session 15c) are closed. Headline disposition: within the slice, no useful classical warp drive exists with classical matter alone. Analytic and numerical bracket on the minimum shell thickness: Δmin/R = κβ/C with κnum ∈ (4.17, 5.83] (Session 18 Warp Factory cross-check, ~6× tighter than the analytic [0.05, 0.875] from Session 15c). Adjacent slices delegated to Phase 2C and 2D.
Detailed plan: MATTER_SHELL_PATH.md; landscape synthesis: LANDSCAPE_SYNTHESIS.md. Full prose summary: Fuchs Shell page.
Closed as a physical mechanism for warp-relevant negative energy (Task 2B.8, Session 34). Three legs, recorded in QUANTUM_CLASSICAL_BRIDGE.md §8: (1) no material gravitational conductor exists in known physics (impedance ZG ~ 2.8 × 10⁻¹⁸ SI + Dyson absorption bounds); (2) the sole claimed loophole (Heisenberg–Coulomb superconductor effect) is speculative, experimentally unsupported, and contradicted in the literature; (3) the loophole-independent even-if bound: a perfect graviton mirror at favourable sign yields |ρC| ≤ ħc/d⁴ — 63.5–69.6 orders of magnitude short of every radially-certified density target (harness verification/test_2b8_casimir_gap.py).
Each slice relaxes one explicit assumption from Path 2A's static-slice analysis. All six slices return null; slice 1 produces the most interesting partial loophole (multi-mode Fell-Heisenberg follow-up promoted to Phase 2D).
Strict-pass FH existence is mathematically real as a statement about the L = 12 evaluation box, pipeline-verified at A-grade, triple-anchored against external no-go literatures, and — at every structural test applied — degraded as a warp-drive interpretation; never restored. The Session-42 closed-form far-field analysis completes the arc: every tested a > 0 configuration violates WEC + DEC beyond a finite equatorial radius R* outside the box, so no swept FH configuration satisfies the energy conditions globally within the adopted concretization. Kept honest along the way by Sessions 14-17's structural tests (single-cell passenger, CTC sea, 76× mass overhead, no asymptotic decay envelope).
Five deliberately-deferred relaxations that live outside the explicitly-enumerated 2A/2B/2C/2D structure, each recorded with explicit reopening criteria. Opened by owner decision in Session 49 and fully dispositioned by Session 52 — the decision-point question ("what is the next most-likely-fruitful relaxation?") now has a checked answer: none of the computationally accessible relaxations opens a useful-warp loophole.
Independent numerical confirmation of analytic Path-2A results — first via the public Warp Factory v1.0 MATLAB toolkit, then via the clean-room Python port warp_factory_py whose exact-symbolic radial evaluator is now the project's certified EC oracle for sharp shell profiles (ground-truth adjudicated, Session 30; Cartesian FD demoted to smooth-only cross-check).
Systematic confrontation against published warp-drive no-go theorems. Informal cross-checks already happened in Tasks 2D.7 (Everett-Roman 1997 / SSV 2023 CTC line), 2D.9 (Bobrick-Martire 2021 matter classification), and 2D.10 (asymptotic matching).
"Granted that a Path-2A or Path-2B construction exists on paper, what physical mechanism would build one and what energy budget does it cost?" Task 5.4 (engineering trade-offs for the matter shell) was absorbed into 2A.0-2A.13.
The project distinguishes results we derived ourselves (A) from results accepted from a specific paper (B) and heuristics (C), and maintains the grades as dated addenda — including downgrades, corrections, and withdrawals. Recent movements: the Lentz 2020 closure was upgraded from analogy to class-level A-within-slice certification (Session 45); the Garattini–Zatrimaylov 2025 equations were upgraded B → A-within-slice by exact reproduction (Session 46) — headline sharpened to "comoving vacuum void; ANEC violated; no useful-warp loophole"; the Session-47 mass-floor re-base's "graded wall" reading was corrected in place one session later (numbers unchanged; mechanism reattributed to the two-body pressure ansatz, Session 48); the Sessions 49–52 Phase-2E dispositions (spin-up margin surface, far-field topology closure, f(R) map + designer-f LP theorem) all entered at A-within-slice with their batteries; and Session 54 reversed the last thin-slab-provenance number (the Session-27 oblate +3.09% — a sign error in its lost scratch driver, established by four driver reconstructions and a calibrated full-3D re-test) while Session 55's own a-priori hypothesis (dipole-layer kink sheets) was refuted by its instrument and recorded as such.
Full table in TRUST_AUDIT.md.