Cheng, Xuezhi: The Crisis of Universality in Lorentz Covariance Determining the Burden of Proof for Universal Claims

This paper contends that if Lorentz covariance in General Relativity (GR) is claimed to be universal, the burden of proof lies with Einstein and his proponents to demonstrate its validity at the Planck scale. Based on the Logical Cost/Residual (LCR) framework, we argue that spacetime geometry is not a fundamental ontology but rather the result of "pruning" within underlying logical operations. Due to the divergence of GR at the Planck scale, the responsibility for proving the universality of cov