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“Imported from content/11-engineering.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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+title: Engineering
+kind: region
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+*Settled by: The working prototype.*
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+Problems that close when something works. Engineering's verifiers are physical: a clock that keeps time at sea, a plane that stays up, a reactor that makes more energy than it takes. Many of its open problems decide the energy future.
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+## Problem spaces
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+- [[Space:energy|Energy]] (4 problems)
+- [[Space:machines|Machines that move]] (5 problems)
+- [[Space:computing-hardware|Computing hardware]] (2 problems)

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Settled by: The working prototype.

Problems that close when something works. Engineering's verifiers are physical: a clock that keeps time at sea, a plane that stays up, a reactor that makes more energy than it takes. Many of its open problems decide the energy future.

Problem spaces