Week 11: Hypothesis and Dissent

Where the fourth-dimensional hypothesis actually stands — its strongest support, its open dissenters, and why this course does not treat "leading" as "concluded."

The leading explanation for campus anomalies is still not a settled one.

3 May 2027

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Outline#

• the state of published support for the fourth-dimensional hypothesis, and its strongest single piece of evidence
• open, on-the-record dissent, and what the dissenters think the hypothesis gets wrong rather than just that they disagree
• why “most cases currently get read this way” is not the same claim as “this is what’s happening,” and why this course keeps the two visibly separate
• what next week’s capstone does and doesn’t ask of you on this question

After this lecture#

There’s no new material after this — week 12 is co-taught and reviews the whole method in build order, then reframes the capstone as a design task using everything covered since week 1.