The Oxygen Ladder: Minimal Geometric–Electronic Rearrangement as an Organizing Principle for Oxygen Chemistry
Abstract (Index)
This document defines the methodological backbone of the Oxygen Octave project.
It introduces Coherence-Assisted Thinking (CAT), a transparent and falsifiable workflow in which human reasoning and general-purpose AI systems operate as a coupled loop to construct, test, and refine scientific questions.
Rather than advancing a new physical theory, the work demonstrates how structured interaction with AI can produce a coherent, auditable, and testable hypothesis under strict transparency constraints.
Oxygen is used as a controlled case study due to its well-characterized behavior across chemistry, physics, and biology, allowing rapid detection of inconsistencies or hallucinations.
This document serves as the methodological reference point for all subsequent Oxygen Octave publications.
