# UTFANSWF v23 — Extended distributed H0 record

This directory preserves the July 26, 2026 post-release H0 Master Record v1 and a machine-readable frozen transcription used by the v23 bundle audit.

The record supplements the published v22 `~72.7 km/s/Mpc` result. It preserves the extended distributed output `73.1342021175366 km/s/Mpc` together with all adverse hardening evidence.

Important boundaries:

- `73.1342021175366` is an emergent distributed/channel-node candidate output, not a single global H0 to substitute into every likelihood.
- The aggregate ACT + complete-DESI compressed statistic is `PASS_CANDIDATE` at the historical channel nodes.
- The frozen ACT-plus-construction subset at the historical BAO node fails its mandatory p >= 0.05 requirement.
- The held-out DESI subset passes strongly.
- The single-global-H0 substitution is a required catastrophic-fail negative control.
- The post-hoc BAO-node pass interval is diagnostic only and cannot replace the historical node without an independent derivation.
- The next correlated derivation must recalculate downstream H0 quantities; the v23 bundle does not assume that 73.134202 remains unchanged after that future derivation.

The executable gate therefore tests preservation and arithmetic consistency of the full record. Its PASS does not mean that the Hubble tension has been independently validated or physically proven resolved.

## v23 final-hardening status

The July 26 record remains frozen and reproduced exactly. In the v23 executable path, Row 20 now scores the unmodified correlated BAO vector directly; the historical residual-derived BAO bridge is diagnostic-only. Therefore `73.1342021175366 km/s/Mpc` is preserved as the July post-release candidate record, not promoted as the active v23 derived H0. A new distributed H0 remains open until the BAO channel node is independently derived and downstream quantities are recalculated.
