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Priority claim · PC-023
BBC broadcast of Willow and parallel universes with Hartmut Neven five days after paperback
The claim - verbatim
Michael Darius Eastwood first published Infinite Architects in paperback (with its Willow passages and multiverse framing) on 2 January 2026. The BBC then broadcast Hartmut Neven of Google Quantum AI on Willow and parallel universes on 7 January 2026 in the Faisal Islam segment - a convergent public-record event five days after the paperback, not a causal or predictive claim. The Willow below-threshold result itself was public as a preprint on 24 August 2024 and appeared in Nature on 9 December 2024, one day after the 8 December 2024 source record: convergent timing, never prediction. Priority for the broadcast content belongs to the BBC and Hartmut Neven; priority for the underlying Willow QEC result belongs to Google Quantum AI.
Anchored evidence
- evidence-screenshots/bbc_parallel_universes_neven.png
- evidence-screenshots/bbc_broadcast_jan7.png
- evidence-screenshots/bbc_article_faisal_islam.png
- knowledge/evidence.json predictionValidations entry 'bbc-neven-1d' (GOLD tier)
Limits and citation guidance - what this claim does not support, and how to cite it
Limits. Convergence, not causation.
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