First Real-Data Global Execution, Posterior Maps, and Empirical Verdict of the Bridge-Closed Finite-Capacity Latency–Erasure Theory

We perform the first real-data global execution of the late finite-capacity latency–erasure program by running the bridge-closed posterior engine constructed in the preceding architectural papers on actual multi-arena confrontation inputs. Earlier stages of the program established the reduced and true survival corridor, the Hubble interface, the imaging interface, the four-arena constitutional tribunal, the first populated numerical confrontation, the microphysical derivation of the shell–cosmology bridge coefficient , the bridge-hardened deep survival grammar, and the full global posterior architecture with MCMC-grade workflow. What remained absent was the execution paper: the article that takes the mature inference machine off the page and applies it to real confrontation data, producing actual posterior chains, marginal constraints, ridge structure, exclusion regions, and a final empirical verdict. The present paper provides that missing step. The paper proceeds in five stages. First, we define the exact real-data confrontation bundle entering the mature tribunal, including ringdown, PTA, Hubble, and imaging likelihood inputs. Second, we execute the bridge-hardened global posterior engine on these inputs using the MCMC-grade workflow of Article 96. Third, we reconstruct the resulting posterior geometry in terms of marginalized confrontation-spine density, credible regions, ridge structure, multimodal islands, and failure regions. Fourth, we quantify empirical bridge-hardening effects through posterior compression, surviving posterior mass, and bridge-induced exclusion diagnostics. Fifth, we state the first real-data verdict of the mature FCLET program in the exact language of the posterior verdict index , distinguishing thick empirical survival, thin ridge survival, fragmented strained survival, bridge-dominated near-exclusion, and decisive empirical collapse. The result is decisive. The late FCLET program is no longer only a theory with a mature inference architecture. It now possesses its first end-to-end empirical execution. In this sense, Article 97 is the first full results paper of the bridge-closed late FCLET program.