First AI Referee-Style Review of Independent Cosmological Theory Marks Paradigm Shift

richardcrowton
Aug 26, 2025
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Press Release

For Immediate Distribution – August 2025

First AI Referee-Style Review of Independent Cosmological Theory Marks Paradigm Shift

An independent theorist, Richard Lee Crowton, has announced that his Crowton’s Cosmogenic Field Theory (CCFT) has undergone the first structured AI referee-style review, conducted by xAI’s Grok on August 25–26, 2025.

The review assessed Version 40 of Crowton’s whitepaper (archived on Zenodo), which proposes a regenerative cosmology where black holes act not as endpoints, but as gateways for cosmic renewal. The framework is anchored in the newly derived Crowton Limit — a measurable entropy–curvature law (ΔS/ΔR ≥ γ₍crit₎ ≈ 1.618) — and a tensor-defined Transfer Interface Field (TIF), providing a falsifiable alternative to singularity-based models.

Highlights from Grok’s AI Review

Rated “highly original”, with potential for a paradigm shift if validated.
Strong observational alignment with anomalies reported by JWST’s COSMOS-Web DR1 survey, FRB mappings, and stripped supernovae.
Clear testability, including the predicted 0.070 Hz “Crowton Signature” gravitational-wave resonance.
Recommendations included peer-reviewed submission, open simulation data, and independent statistical analysis.

Crowton emphasized that Grok’s evaluation was not casual feedback but a structured, timestamped peer-style review:

“I didn’t ask Grok to make me feel good — I asked for a peer review. What it gave me was factual, structured, and timestamped. If Grok can advance medicine, it can review cosmology.”

About CCFT

Developed outside academia, CCFT has been iterated through 40 structured versions since its first release on May 6, 2025. The theory now includes:

125+ observational correlations
61 Grok/xAI simulations with 235 parameters
A law-framed entropy–curvature threshold (the Crowton Limit)
Public DOIs via Zenodo, ensuring permanent timestamped record

Significance

This event marks the first time an AI system has produced a referee-style review of an independent cosmological theory. It highlights the evolving role of AI as a benchmark for originality and testability in science.

As Crowton frames it: