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Priority claim · PC-023

BBC broadcast of Willow and parallel universes with Hartmut Neven five days after paperback

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This was first published by Michael Darius Eastwood on . Anchored evidence is listed below. See the machine-readable priority record at /research/priority/ and the full ledger at /priority-claims.

The claim - verbatim

Michael Darius Eastwood first published Infinite Architects in paperback (with its Willow passages and multiverse framing) on 2 January 2026. The BBC then broadcast Hartmut Neven of Google Quantum AI on Willow and parallel universes on 7 January 2026 in the Faisal Islam segment - a convergent public-record event five days after the paperback, not a causal or predictive claim. Priority for the broadcast content belongs to the BBC and Hartmut Neven; priority for the underlying Willow QEC result belongs to Google Quantum AI.

Anchored evidence

Risk notes - what this claim does not support

Risk notes. Convergence, not causation.

Verify this claim. The machine-readable priority register is at /research/priority.json (this claim is PC-023 in claimsLedger[]). The full public ledger view is at /priority-claims. Where evidence points at a redacted evidence/... path, the public verification method is documented at /research/evidence-spine.html. Every result is independently checkable via the OSF programme at osf.io/6c5xb (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB).

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