The Ableman Wheel

The Ableman Wheel is a proposed experimental apparatus for asking whether a rotating electromechanical system exhibits a reproducible topology-dependent residual after known external torques, electromagnetic forces, elastic response, thermal effects, estimator behavior, and energy flow are modeled and bounded. The experiment is restricted to rotational dynamics and explicitly excludes propulsion, translation, reactionless thrust, and violations of conservation laws. The source proposes phase inversion, continuous phase steering, coherence scrambling, graded coherence loss, topology rotation, frequency sweeps, and Delta/Amplitude-Modulated-Wye comparison as structural falsifiers. These controls are useful but not uniquely diagnostic. Driven elastic, electromagnetic, thermal, wiring, and estimator couplings can also invert, steer, preserve calibrated equivalence, or decay under scrambling. Each candidate mechanism therefore needs a quantitative prediction matrix rather than an assertion that one qualitative response eliminates it. The central measurement must be angular-momentum and torque closure over a declared system boundary. Angular acceleration alone is insufficient. A credible protocol requires calibrated external torque, support reaction, internal momentum storage, electromagnetic energy and field coupling, translational and vibrational motion, thermal state, cable and bearing effects, measurement uncertainty, blinded randomized trials, amplitude scaling, preregistered analysis, and a declared detection limit. This revision treats the manuscript as an experimental protocol at Specification and early configuration stages, not as a completed apparatus or test. It preserves the clean-null ambition while replacing qualitative disqualification rules with bounded hypothesis tests and evidence obligations. No experiment, simulation, construction, or external literature review was performed.