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On the Non-Convergence of Terrestrial Geometry Discourse in Real-Time Text Channels

Q. Barratt, E. Cavill, D. Corrigan

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Abstract: We analyse N = 1,204,887 messages exchanged across 47 servers over 38 months, all concerning the shape of the Earth. Zero participants changed position. We show this is not a failure of the discourse but a structural property of it: the discourse is victory-complete, meaning that for every exchange and every participant there exists a reading under which that participant prevailed. Thread half-life is therefore infinite. The entire geometric content of the corpus is stated, in full, in Section 2. It is 49 words long.

Comments:
4 pages, 1 table. Submitted to the Journal of Irreproducible Discourse.
Subjects:
Social Discourse (disc.SOC) (primary class); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP); Oracle-Mediated Rhetoric (rhet.AI); Self-Reference (meta.SELF); Geodesy and Survey (metrol.GEO)
TDC classes:
4.02; 5.11; 9.01
Cite as:
arghXiv:2608.04471v1 (BibTeX)
Submission history:
From: Q. Barratt [view email]
[v1] Fri, 21 Aug 2026 (169 KB)