The Site
UHECR Today started in 2023 as an educational resource on ultra-high-energy cosmic ray science — making public data, detection methods, and open research problems accessible to students and physicists alike. The site evolved into a research publication hub when the STF discovery emerged from that data in 2025.
Today the site serves two roles: a public science resource covering UHECR physics broadly, and the primary open-access home for the Selective Transient Field framework. All papers are published here in full and freely accessible. All data used is public. All methods are documented.
The Researcher
The Discovery and Framework
In 2025, analysis of public data from the Pierre Auger Observatory (494 UHECRs), Fermi GBM (3,545 gamma-ray bursts), and LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (199 gravitational wave events) revealed that ultra-high-energy cosmic rays arrive before gravitational wave mergers — not after, as every existing model predicted. The correlation stands at 61.3σ across 10,117 pairs. It is matter-independent: binary black holes, which contain no baryonic matter and cannot produce conventional jets, show the same signal as neutron star systems. This rules out every astrophysical acceleration mechanism and points to a geometric coupling to spacetime dynamics.
The Selective Transient Field (STF) was derived to explain this: a ghost-free scalar field coupled to the rate of change of spacetime curvature, nμ∇μℛ. Starting from four theoretical inputs — General Relativity, ghost-freedom, cosmological boundary conditions, and 10-dimensional compactification — the framework derives its own parameters without observational input, then extends deterministically across 61 orders of magnitude.
The framework grew from the founding observation into a cascade of derived results: Standard Model particle masses and coupling constants from 10D compactification geometry; dark energy (ΩSTF ≈ 0.71) from the field’s residual potential; galactic rotation curves without dark matter particles; the inflationary spectral index ns = 0.963; the Jarlskog CP-violation invariant; and — following the retrocausal structure of the field equations — a physically grounded, empirically testable theory of time and temporal experience.
The two derivation routes to the dark energy density (Ω = 0.65 ± 0.10 via compactification in V7.0; Ω = 0.71 via equilibrium analysis in Cosmology V5.6) are complementary, not competing — two independent paths converging on the same observable, each strengthening the other. This is a recurring pattern in the framework: independent derivations that could have disagreed, agreeing.
All Papers
All fourteen papers are published in full on this site. The concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17526550 provides a persistent citation anchor. The Framework Guide explains the logical arc, the three-path convergence, and reading paths for every audience.
- 01 Founding Observational Manuscript V3.20 — 61.3σ UHECR–GRB–GW correlation, full 51-test suite
- 02 Companion Test Authority V1.5 — validation methodology reference for all numbered tests
- 03 Theory STF Theory V2.6 — complete theoretical framework, zero-parameter derivation cascade
- 04 First Principles STF First Principles V7.4 — all parameters derived from CICY #7447 compactification
- 05 Cosmology STF Cosmology V5.6 — inflation, dark energy Ω = 0.71, dark matter, Hubble tension
- 06 Particle Physics SM Unification V3.5 — electron mass, proton mass, baryon asymmetry from geometry
- 07 Philosophy Theory of Time V4.2 — first physically grounded, testable theory of time
- 08 Philosophy Consciousness, Time & Identity V3.5 — temporal experience as temporally self-referential structure
- 09 Ontology Temporal Cascade V1.0 — pre-temporal stasis and the origin of becoming
- 10 Geometry Complexified Null Cone V0.8 — geometry of retrocausal activation
- 11 Phenomenology Temporal Workspace V0.5 — quantitative measure of temporal depth
- 12 Ontology The Structure of What Happens V0.9 — closed causal loops, retrocausal fields, ontological necessity of experience
- 13 Biology Retrocausality & Life V0.5 — death as a boundary condition in living systems
- 14 Cosmology The Energy Problem V0.3 — cosmological constant, dark matter scale, arrow of time
For Press and Collaborators
- Framework Guide → Best starting point. The logical arc from anomaly to first principles to philosophy. Reading paths for every audience.
- Observational Manuscript V3.20 → The founding paper. Full statistical methodology, all 51 validation tests, complete data provenance.
- Plain language introduction → Non-technical overview of the discovery and what it means.
- Theory overview → Technical summary of the derivation chain for physicists encountering the framework for the first time.
- Discovery news story → Accessible narrative of how the discovery was made.
- Contact Z. Paz directly → Media inquiries, collaboration proposals, and questions welcome.
Open Science
All research uses exclusively public data: Pierre Auger Observatory (ADST public release), LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (GWTC catalogs via GWOSC), and Fermi GBM (4B catalog). No proprietary data was used at any stage.
Validation code (51 Python scripts corresponding to the 51 numbered tests) will be published on GitHub with a citable DOI via Zenodo’s GitHub integration. Independent verification is not just welcomed — it is the point. The data is public, the methods are documented, and the results are reproducible.
This site is built as a static site hosted on Netlify. All paper content is maintained in version-controlled Markdown and converted to HTML. Every paper page includes a BibTeX citation block and Schema.org structured data for Google Scholar indexing.