Bring the claim
into the light.
Keep what survives.

Justin Hughes

I started this practice because I needed it myself.

In 2024 I began running quantum experiments on IBM hardware with serious intent: ECDLP solving with Shor and Regev variants, HHL linear systems, and a two-year study of whether synchronized human attention could measurably interact with QPU output distributions.

I produced results that looked like they meant something. I got them recognized — the 14-bit ECDLP submission was confirmed inside Project Eleven's Q-Day Prize. I built better and better tools for seeing what I hoped was there.

Then I ran the null test. The ECDLP result died. The meditation study died. Both on the same day, with the same instrument. Two years of work, falsified by randomized data through my own pipeline.

That's the credential. Not the results. The retractions. An instrument that will kill your own best finding — on a claim you were recognized for — is an instrument you can trust on someone else's claim.

The HHL work survived the null test, and the 15-rule NISQ checklist emerged from the autopsy. Both are published. The self-audit of the HHL claim continues.