The COS-EXP module is the empirical “front end” of the COS (Collapsing-Structure) program: it investigates how the shell–filament based discrete quantum-gravity and matter models (COS-S, COS-QF/QSF/QD, COS-SM/SUSY/GUT, COS-C) can be translated into concrete, testable predictions at the level of current and future observations. The paper develops the empirical framework in four main steps. First, it introduces a conceptual classification of predictions (geometric, matter, topological, and dynamical scales), together with the A/B/C-type detectability categories, the COS-TRL scale, and the notion of degeneracy blocks. Second, it clarifies what the GR limit and consistency with classical tests mean for COS. Third, it goes through the main observational channels (tests of GR, the CMB — anomalies, spectral dips, arrow-of-time mutual-information analysis — the stochastic gravitational-wave background, neutrinos, and large-scale structure / weak lensing) and identifies, for each channel, the associated COS parameter groups, observables, current constraints, and the corresponding pipeline requirements that build on the COS-NUM module. Fourth, it provides an experimental roadmap that connects CMB, GW, neutrino, and LSS surveys to the different classes of predictions within the COS model family, and delineates those short- and medium-term studies in which COS-induced signals can be realistically tested. The aim of the paper is not to present detailed numerical forecasts, but rather to establish a transparent empirical structure on which the COS-NUM module and the associated pipelines can support a systematic experimental program.
Attila Görhöny (Thu,) studied this question.