Ringdown Predictions
The manuscript proposes a modified quasinormal-mode frequency and damping time relative to the standard GR value, but the corpus's own symbol glossary flags the coefficients as never given explicit values — presented here exactly as honestly as the source allows.
Modified ringdown frequency and damping time
parameters unspecifiedωₙ = f(ωₙ^GR, ε, a*, a_hor, p); τₙ = g(τₙ^GR, ε′, a*, a_hor, p)
- Required parameters
- ε, ε′ (order-unity suppression coefficients), p (sharpness exponent) — none given an explicit numerical value in the source
- Predicted result
- A suppression of the ringdown signal relative to GR, with functional form given but coefficients undetermined
- Competing (standard) prediction
- Standard general-relativistic quasinormal-mode ringdown, no suppression
- Required instrument/data
- A real LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA ringdown detection with sufficient signal-to-noise to fit ε, ε′, p simultaneously
Falsification criterion: No numerical values for ε, ε′, p currently exist to falsify — the prediction is not yet operationally testable until these are fixed, either theoretically or by a first fit to data.
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