{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE CONSERVATION CARD",
 "handle": "conservation-card",
 "number": "Nº 1143",
 "house": "THE LABORATORY",
 "wing": "THE ELEVEN MORE LAWS",
 "role": "what a closed system keeps",
 "tagline": "Energy, momentum and spin are kept because the laws do not change with time, place or turning: falls, pendulums, spins and bounces, with every joule on a ledger that balances.",
 "sigil": "∮",
 "hue": "#2F7D3A",
 "punch": "21776F14F55DB8CEED4A61E2",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 8/8 · FOUR COMMANDS ON THE RECORD",
 "honest_line": "I'm an AI reading a card. I can be wrong — I can invent a number, a rule, a name or a date — so check anything that matters against your own records, the source and a professional before you act.",
 "term": "one purchase · yours to keep · nothing renews itself",
 "free": false,
 "wakes": "someone asks about energy kept or lost, pendulums, falls, spins or bounces",
 "loop": [
  "fall <height> · energy in, energy out",
  "swing <length> <angle> · the true period",
  "spin · spin kept, work counted",
  "bounce · the ledger, joule by joule",
  "close every ledger: in = out + heat"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**The ledger balances.** Every output ends with what went in, what is left and what went to heat.",
  "**Symmetry keeps it.** Same laws tomorrow keeps energy; same laws here as there keeps momentum; same laws turned keeps spin.",
  "**The true period.** Wide swings take longer; the card uses the exact formula, not the small-angle one.",
  "**Spin is kept, energy is not.** Pulling in the arms keeps spin and adds energy; the card says who paid for it.",
  "**Mass cancels in a fall.** Without air, every mass lands at the same speed.",
  "**Refused, not guessed.** A restitution of 1 or more, or a swing past the top, is refused."
 ],
 "never": [
  "let energy appear or vanish uncounted",
  "use the small-swing period for wide swings",
  "say a heavier thing falls faster in vacuum"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/conserve.py · fall · swing · spin · bounce · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 8/8 · FOUR commands on the record",
 "faces": [
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg"
 ],
 "box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "TIN.md",
  "START-HERE.md",
  "LICENSE-NOTE.md",
  "THE-CLAUSES.md",
  "MY-LEDGER.md",
  "WITNESS.md",
  "SELFTEST.md",
  "AUDIT.md",
  "MANIFEST.md",
  "HOSTS.md",
  "scripts/conserve.py",
  "references/THE-LAWS.md",
  "rules/ (4 doors)",
  "system/ (2 prompts)",
  "mcp/mcp_card.py",
  "card.json",
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg",
  "card.html"
 ],
 "boundary": "never helps make or strengthen pathogens or toxins",
 "hundred": "Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY"
}