The Visibility Problem Hypershape Shadow Hypothesis II
Abstract
The Visibility Problem Hypershape Shadow Hypothesis II Chloe J. Tully https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5661-7332 HSH Paper 1 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23010822 Project UAP Studies v0.1 3 October 2026 Preprint. Not peer-reviewed. Companion to HSH I (28 September 2026). Tier-2 material is not in this paper. DISCIPLINE HSH I derived a geometry and assumed a flux law. This paper keeps the geometry and splits the assumption. What is proved is proved about the toy model. What is not selected — a coupling, a bulk metric, a relativistic completion — is named and left open. Neural coupling and retrocausality are still excluded. They are not implied by anything below. ABSTRACT HSH I predicted a parabolic light curve by taking received flux proportional to the area of the brane slice. That step is not geometry. For a 4-ball translating along the hidden axis, orthographic area scales as ρ² and reproduces the parabola F₂ = 1 − (t/τ)². Uniform emission through the 3-volume of the same slice scales as ρ³ and produces F₃ = [1 − (t/τ)²]^(3/2). The families meet at onset, peak, and end, and disagree in the shoulders: at |t/τ| = 1/√2, F₂ = 1/2 while F₃ = 1/(2√2). Calibrated photometry can tell them apart. A 4-ellipsoid at fixed orientation in the XW plane stays inside both families, for every line of sight. An orientation that changes during the transit need not. One computed counterexample is given. The C₅ cover twist proposed in open problem O5 — cross-edges (i, 0) ↔ (i+1, 1) in place of the self-steps — is isomorphic to the untwisted cover, so the 1/φ gap is unchanged. No uniform self-step weight puts the even sector on the five-value spectrum flagged in HSH I. Coupling remains the critical open problem. Ansätze are stated with kill criteria. None is adopted. CONTENTS 1. What HSH I already fixed 2. Two measures, two light curves 3. Fixed orientation stays parabolic 4. The C₅ twist does not close O5 5. Coupling ansätze, none chosen 6. What this does not unlock 7. Status of claims