{
  "_contract": "The register of objections for the recursive-creation page. Every serious objection received is logged here: dated, credited by name with permission, quoted whole, and answered or conceded on the page. Concessions print as prominently as claims. Entries are append-only; answers may be superseded by better answers, never silently edited.",
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "OBJ-1",
      "date_received": "2026-08-20",
      "objection": "If time does not tick in the arena, recursion cannot exist there, because recursion is a process and a process needs an arrow.",
      "source": "posed directly to the programme (operator-relayed challenge)",
      "status": "conceded-and-inverted",
      "date_resolved": "2026-08-21",
      "resolution": "Conceded outright: nothing compounds without an arrow. Followed until it inverted: the impossibility of growth outside time is the hypothesis's own explanation for why time-bearing universes exist. See the two-registers passage and paper section 6.5B (the plaque).",
      "artefacts": [
        "/research/recursive-creation/",
        "hrih-paper section 6.5B",
        "OTS manifest 20260821T022158Z"
      ]
    }
  ]
}