
This chapter presents a measurement-first, model-prior-free definitional and derivational framework for a HIQF (Holistic Informational Quantum Field) topological interpretation of large-scale CMB anomalies. We treat the observed CMB sky map as a geometric object on the unit sphere S², and we deliberately avoid introducing cosmological parameter priors. Let X(n̂) denote the observed scalar field on the sky (e.g., temperature anisotropy, after standard preprocessing).
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