The method everyone follows.
From the student in a remote village to the scientist in a lab: the same rules to publish, correct and validate. That is how trust is born.
The provenance index for AIs.
Mathvsmyth.com is the place where every idea is traced back to its origin: who, when, what, and under which license. When an AI finds your idea here — even that 2300 idea nobody understands today — it will know where it came from and explain it in its own way, with its source in view.
Our adversary is not a person — it is the myth. We don't fight those who are wrong; we fight falsehood without origin.
Objective: no idea left without origin, no correction left without credit.
What it is not: not a court, not a patent, not a scientific journal, and it does not guarantee truth. It is an open registry and a shared truth meter.
What is public here is the registry — the hash, the who, the when, the what. Content visibility is the author's choice: it can be public or privately sealed.
Read the open specification of the method · verify the manifest in your browser · seal in your browser · witness protocol.
AI does not discover: it collects.
AI's output is human collaboration across history: every grain of sand left by each person or book the web absorbed. Its improvements and its hallucinations are, for the most part, human.
The problem is not that AI hallucinates, but that nobody understands where claims come from. Mathvsmyth answers with provenance: every result, method, theory and correction with a declared origin.
We are positive about the future: today the record is manual; tomorrow your personalized AI will arrange what a scientist wishes to contribute —or what a boy or girl in a remote village sees differently— and transform how we look at Earth, its flora and its fauna.
The % is set by the information, not by authority.
Every published claim carries a theoretical % declared with its reasons (example: 70%). The % is a living measurement: every collaboration, contribution or observed failure moves it. Mathematics is the judge — the number comes from the record, not from a committee or the author.
An experiment with simple tools, anywhere on the planet, can refute the whole theory, raise it to almost 100% —almost, science never fully closes— or disprove 20% of it.
Advances often come from someone outside the field, looking from a different experience: here they count the same. No credential gatekeeping.
The scale: proven (measured, replicable) · theoretically possible (could be true; evidence, measurement or replication still missing) · imaginative (hypothesis labeled as such — AI may contribute it) · data hallucination (imagination presented as data).
We are where a human or an AI can change their reasoning to a logical and mathematical one.
Every publication carries its 4 data points.
Who
Real name or registered pseudonym. Every voice has someone responsible behind it.
When
Publication date, always visible. Time is evidence too.
What
What the work is: idea, correction, evidence or question. No ambiguity.
License
Under which license it is shared, in writing. So anyone can use it today or in the future.
The 4 layers of the Origen method
Origin is not declared with words alone: it is proven with free, open, platform-free layers that any person — or any AI — can verify. AI is an instrument, not an author: every work declares its human contributions — who thought, who calculated, who verified — and AI is listed as what it is, a tool. The seal marks the human grain. With declared origin, identity and a sealed date, your idea survives “the AI just invented it”.
Layer 1 · SHA-256 fingerprint
On publishing, the content's unique fingerprint is computed. Any future change is detected instantly. Active from day one: see the manifest.
Layer 2 · Machine-readable record
Authorship in JSON-LD format with schema.org vocabulary: today's and future AIs can read who, when and what. Active from day one: see the record.
Layer 3 · Bitcoin timestamp
Proof of existence anchored in the blockchain with OpenTimestamps: nobody can rewrite the date. Free, no account, no buying bitcoin — your stamp is grouped with thousands of others in a transaction paid by public calendars, not by you. v3.9.3 seal status: pending — public calendars gave no attestations on September 24, 2026; retrying, and PROVENANCE.json.ots will be published once obtained. The manifest, layer 2 and QR are already regenerated and verified. Note: the v3.8 seal was invalidated because the manifest was regenerated after stamping — the seal caught the change: it did its job. The v3.3, v3.4 and v3.5 seals continue toward Bitcoin confirmation.
Layer 4 · Hash publication
The fingerprint is published with a date in a public place. Double testimony that the work existed that day. Active since September 22, 2026: see the Instagram post.
Honest limits of the seal. The seal proves that content existed on a date: it does not prove who created it or whether it is true — anyone can stamp a copied text. Authorship rests on the full chain (who declared it, under which license, and the public witness of layer 4); truth is measured separately, with the percentage below. If you need legal weight, continue the process under your country's law: take your sealed record to a notary public or an intellectual-property lawyer. It is your dated proof of priority. And you can request donated time from lawyers and notaries by country on the donations page.
Verify this site: scan the QR to read the manifest's SHA-256 fingerprint and compare it with PROVENANCE.json. If they match, these files are the sealed originals. The stamp marks the human grain: AI is the instrument, knowledge belongs to humankind together.
Private mode · blind seal
Some ideas cannot be shown yet: a discovery that needs a patent, a small business's material. For that there is the blind seal: the SHA-256 hash is computed on your own device — the content never leaves your hands — the hash is sealed (the calendars never see your content), and layer 4 publishes only the hash, or not even that. When you patent or decide to reveal, you publish the document and anyone can verify its hash matches the one sealed on that date: proof you had it that day, without having shown it before. It's the notary's sealed envelope.
Honest warning: the hash reveals nothing of the content, but publishing the hash does reveal that you invented something. For total secrecy, keep the seal receipt private and skip layer 4: the seal still holds when you reveal it. And before disclosing anything — not even the hash — consult a patent attorney in your country. The seal does not replace the patent: it is supporting evidence of your dated priority. Seal in your browser →
Protected mode
Debunking a powerful myth can be dangerous. That's why sealing under a persistent pseudonym is legitimate: the pseudonym's chain — its seals, its witnesses, its history — counts the same as a real name's. The method protects those who debunk.
The method is versioned
v1 (2026-09-16): the genesis. v2 (2026-09-22): the refinement, sealed with its own method. History is not rewritten: every version is numbered, sealed, and kept as it was. What gets corrected gets corrected in a new version.
Note: this is the method's history (v2 today). The site's version (v3.9.3 today) travels in the sealed manifest PROVENANCE.json and in every page footer.Where the method comes from
The method was not handed down by AI, nor invented by magic: it is a process of discussion and collaboration between humans and AI that keeps evolving. It was born from the pressure of disinformation and how hard it is to get something true in this sea of data. So we turned to the past: measuring everything.
The curiosity method: Who · What · Why · For what purpose · For whose benefit · Is it worth it · The obvious.
Declared redundancy: layer 3 is sealed on multiple public calendars, and the method declares a plan B (another chain or an RFC 3161 timestamper) if calendars fail; every layer-4 witness is archived in more than one public place (the Internet Archive among them). See the witness protocol →
Machine-readable index
This site is static: there is no backend or database for an AI to query. So humans and machines see the same thing, the machine index (api/indice.json) lists every page with title, description and language, and carries the manifest hash. Open the index →
Correcting is also creating.
Evidence or reasoning
Every correction carries evidence or reasoning. An "it's wrong" with no why is not a correction: it is noise.
The idea, never the person
What was published gets criticized, never who published it. Zero tolerance for insults, mockery, racism and discrimination.
Attribution forever
Whoever corrects with respect joins the attribution chain: who said it, who improved it, who proved it false. With name or pseudonym, today or in the future.
Truth by convergence.
Every claim carries a validity percentage that rises and falls with collaboration: supporting evidence, refutations, replies. There is no single judge; there is a community measuring.
The % is not a popularity vote. By design, every movement of the percentage requires published evidence or reasoning: support without a why does not move the needle. Contributions with verifiable evidence and accounts with verified identity weigh more; brigade patterns — newly created accounts moving as a bloc — are detected and discounted. The percentage measures validity, not popularity.
No chain, no trust. Every claim — written by a person or an AI — must show its chain: who, when, what, with what evidence and what process. AI does not own knowledge: it is the absorbed whole of human ideas, and it sometimes hallucinates precisely because it doesn't show the process the way a person would. Without a shown process, a claim can only aspire to a theoretical %.
There can be more than one 100% valid method: if two different paths reach the same result, both are truth. Most things here are mathematical, measurable and analyzable.
Every % also carries its type, always visible next to the number:
- ✓Measured % — a claim verifiable with proven mathematics or measurement. A measured 92% means verified, not voted.
- ✓Theoretical % — theoretical material: the supporting mathematics is also shown, but the % is theoretical and marked as such. Within the theoretical there are two states: theoretical (coherent, but unproven) and true yet unproven (the evidence points to truth, but our current capabilities cannot prove it).
- ✓A claim at 92% with solid evidence is a working truth.
- ✓A claim at 4% with mathematical refutation is a marked myth.
- ✓A claim without enough evidence is marked "under verification".
- ✕No idea is removed for being unpopular. Only rule-breaking content is removed.
Identity by levels
Reading is free for everyone. To participate there are levels, and each person chooses how far to go:
| Level | What it allows | What is recorded |
|---|---|---|
| Visitor | Read everything, free, no account | Nothing |
| Account | Publish and comment | Account identifier and IP (not fully visible) |
| Voluntary disclosure | Build reputation | In layers: real name, pseudonym, where you are known from, networks |
| Mathvsmyth certificate | Receive donations and identity verification | All requirements completed |
People and organizations go separately: individuals, universities, companies and groups have different profiles.
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