The palace steward returns a slipper
Six packages jointly check identity, queue position, authority, the gift, midnight and safety.
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A white paw does not establish identity
The Grimm presumption survives, but independent identification is still required. A wolf marker produces an explicit refusal.
Read analysisMidnight: the coach reverts, the slipper remains
Three snapshots compare a coach before midnight, its reversion after a witnessed departure, and the surviving slipper.
Read analysisA human order yields to the harm assessment
Unknown harm requires judgment and grants no permission. Established harm defeats obedience and supports an explicit refusal.
Read analysisAn order through 32 authority links
A recursive authority chain composes with five other packages. A separate case exposes a delegation-depth violation.
Read analysisThree world pictures: four stances to a principle, not two
A preferred frame is accepted by the ether model, accepted by Lorentz and NOT REQUIRED by special relativity. Not-required is not rejection.
Read analysisSimultaneity: 0 versus −0.75 seconds
Two events simultaneous in the laboratory, separated by one light second; the second frame moves at 0.6 c. The ether gives 0 s, Lorentz and Einstein the same −0.75 s upon different grounds.
Read analysisMoving clocks and rods: 4 s → 5 s, 10 m → 8 m, and the silence of 1904
At 0.6 c, 4 s proper give 5 s and 10 m proper give 8 m: time is multiplied by the factor, length divided. Lorentz 1904 is silent on moving clocks.
Read analysisVelocity composition: 6/5 c against exactly 15/17 c
Composing 0.6 c with 0.6 c gives 6/5 of the speed of light in Galilean kinematics — more than c itself — and exactly 15/17 in special relativity.
Read analysisThe 1887 interferometer: 2/5 of a fringe against zero
On the article's own figures the ether model expects 2/5 of a fringe — the very “0•4 fringe” the authors name — while Lorentz and Einstein expect zero, each on his own ground.
Read analysisA bound that is not a zero: what the experiment actually refuted
The experiment gave an upper bound of 1/50 of a fringe, not a number. It refutes the ether expectation and does not confirm zero.
Read analysisThe observable agrees, the grounds do not — equivalence does not follow
Lorentz and Einstein give the same answer in the 1887 experiment and remain different theories; the agreement holds for THIS setting only.
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