EOCME: A Meaning-Conservation Framework Validated on CERN Open Data

Statement of SignificanceContext Psychology proposes that meaning functions as a conserved field quantity. Robert Blokker has spent forty years helping people and organizations understand why they do what they do. From that work emerged a simple but radical idea: meaning is not just something people feel — it is a conserved quantity, like energy in physics. It follows rules. It can be measured.He built a mathematical framework around this idea and wrote a protocol — EOCME — that forms the analytical foundation for every domain in which it is applied. The protocol is domain-agnostic. What varies per vertical is the data input structure and the reporting format. The analytical core is identical whether the data comes from a therapy session, an organizational survey, a business intelligence dataset, or a particle physics experiment.To test whether this really works at the limits of scientific rigor, he pointed the protocol at data from CERN — the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. The protocol had never seen particle physics data before.It identified the Z-boson mass signature at approximately 91 GeV. Twice. In two completely different datasets, across two different decay channels. Without being told what to look for.But the second finding may be equally significant. When asked what the dataset reveals about the assumptions of those who produced it, EOCME reconstructed — from the data alone, without access to any experimental documentation — the four prior commitments embedded in the experimental design: which events were considered worth measuring, which topology was assumed relevant, which kinematic variables were treated as sufficient, and what the mass distribution was expected to show.The measurement is not where science begins. The enactment is. And EOCME can read the enactment from the data it produced. AbstractContext Psychology (CP) proposes that meaning functions as a conserved field quantity governed by the EOCME cycle: Enactment → Outcome → Context → Meaning → Experience — a recursive causal mechanism whose mathematical structure carries a global SU(7) gauge symmetry. By Noether's theorem, this symmetry implies a conservation law: meaning is not created or destroyed, it is configured. The coherence measure Q(t), derived from this framework, is proposed as the physical manifestation of the Higgs field at the SU(6) breaking scale.EOCME is the analytical protocol that operationalizes this framework. It forms the foundation of every vertical in which it is applied. The analytical core is identical across domains; verticals are distinguished by their data input structure and reporting format.This paper documents six analyses applying EOCME to CERN open collision data — a four-lepton HZZ dataset (100 events) and a CMS dimuon dataset (20,000 events) — without domain-specific training, without probabilistic inference, and without steering toward expected outcomes. Each analysis is fully reproducible via a unique ANALYSIS-ID.Key findings: the Z-boson mass signature at ~91 GeV is identified in both datasets across two independent decay channels; field coherence Q(t) reaches 0.873 and 0.859 in the dimuon dataset, substantially exceeding the HZZ baseline of 0.515; cross-dataset cosine correspondence between independent subsets reaches 0.999; confirmation bias is detectable in question formulation; and — as a sixth analysis demonstrates — the enacted reality of the experimenters is fully reconstructable from the dataset itself, including four specific prior commitments embedded in the experimental design before any measurement was taken.These results support the claim that EOCME identifies meaning structure as a conserved physical quantity, detectable across scales from individual cognition to particle physics, and that enactment — not measurement — is the constitutive starting point of empirical data.