Ricardo J Miralles

(XLVII) Epistemological Audit, Pregeometric WKB Beta Decay Errata, and Nuclear Phase Stability (v6)

This monograph presents a formal epistemological audit and errata report for the Folded Crunch Dipole – Reversed Big Bang (FCD-RBv6) pregeometric theoretical framework. We address and resolve an intermediate tabular discrepancy in Part V regarding the free neutron decay half-life...

(XXV) SOLAR FUSION AS INTER-BRANE MASS-ASYMMETRY REBALANCING (v6)

In this work, stellar nucleosynthesis is reformulated as an elastic mass-asymmetry rebalancing of the bilateral Einstein-Rosen (ER) dipole network spanning visible Brane A and mirror Brane B within the 5D AdS substrate (FCD-RBv6). Standard nuclear astrophysics treats the weak bot...

THE EQUATION OF STATE OF THE ER STRING (XIX v6)

In the FCD-RBv6 pregeometric framework, hadronic confinement is derived analytically from the constitutive elastodynamics of trans-brane Einstein–Rosen (ER) bridges embedded in the AdS₅ bulk and regularized at the centrifugal Compton floor R₀ = ℏ/(m_const c) ≈ 0.6308 fm. Five cor...

THE KINETIC CONSTITUENT MASS . Relativistic Rotation of the ER String, Spin-1/2 from Bilateral Brane Anchoring, and the Symmetric Self-Energy Ledger (XVIII v6)

In the FCD-RBv6 pregeometric framework, hadronic constituent mass, fermionic spin, and the isospin mass gap are derived from the elastodynamics of trans-brane Einstein–Rosen (ER) bridges embedded in the AdS5 bulk and regularized at the centrifugal Compton floor R0 ≈ 0.6308 fm. We...

THE LEPTONIC MODE: THE ELECTRON AS RESONANCE OF THE MINORITY-MASS ENDPOINT (XV v6)

In the FCD-RBv6 pregeometric framework, the leptonic sector is derived from the boundary elastodynamics of trans-brane Einstein–Rosen (ER) dipoles regularized at the Compton floor R₀ ≈ 0.6308 fm. We establish five core principles: (1) Uniqueness of Fractional Charges: +2/3e and -...

MIRROR PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS, THE MOLECULAR COOLING CRISIS, AND THE 50:50 STRUCTURAL ORIGIN OF DARK MATTER (XVI v6)

In the FCD-RBv6 pregeometric framework, the dark sector is derived without exotic particles from the nuclear thermodynamics of the CPT-conjugate mirror brane across the AdS₅ bulk regularized at the Compton floor R₀ ≈ 0.6308 fm. Five core physical and cosmological foundations are...

NUCLEAR COHESION WITHOUT COULOMB REPULSION (XVII v6)

We present a complete pregeometric formulation of nuclear cohesion within the FCD-RBv6 framework. In this paradigm, nuclear binding is not mediated by an independent strong gauge interaction or the exchange of massive virtual mesons (Yukawa's ansatz), but emerges as a direct cons...

MIRROR PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS, THE MOLECULAR COOLING CRISIS, AND THE 50:50 STRUCTURAL ORIGIN OF DARK MATTER (XVI v6)

In the FCD-RBv6 pregeometric framework, the dark sector is derived without exotic particles from the nuclear thermodynamics of the CPT-conjugate mirror brane across the AdS₅ bulk regularized at the Compton floor R₀ ≈ 0.6308 fm. Five core physical and cosmological foundations are...

NEUTRAL-MESON MIXING AND CP VIOLATION (XII v6)

Within the FCD-RBv6 pregeometric framework, CP violation is not a primitive phase complex inserted ad hoc in the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, but the low-energy projection of an emergent holonomic geometric phase (Berry Phase) at the tri-coordinated junction of the 5D...

THE QUARK ER DIPOLE: A MINIMAL SUB-HADRONIC ONTOLOGY (XIII v6)

We formalize the minimal sub-hadronic ontology within the FCD-RBv6 framework, extending trans-brane Einstein–Rosen (ER) dipoles regularized at the Compton floor R₀ ≈ 0.6308 fm. Three unified foundational principles are established: (1) The Single-Quark Hypothesis, demonstrating t...

THE LEPTONIC MODE: THE ELECTRON AS RESONANCE OF THE MINORITY-MASS ENDPOINT (XV v6)

In the FCD-RBv6 pregeometric framework, the leptonic sector is derived from the boundary elastodynamics of trans-brane Einstein–Rosen (ER) dipoles regularized at the Compton floor R₀ ≈ 0.6308 fm. We establish five core principles: (1) Uniqueness of Fractional Charges: +2/3e and -...

GRAVITATIONAL SCREENING AS THE MACROSCOPIC SIGNATURE OF TRANS-BRANE DIPOLAR TENSION (XI v6)

Within the FCD-RB framework, the fundamental physical entity is the trans-brane fermion–antifermion dipole connecting a visible-matter brane and a mirror-antimatter brane through a non-traversable Einstein–Rosen (ER) bridge, with rest mass identified as the tension stored in that...

CHARGE WITHOUT CHARGE: THE TRANS-BRANE MASS-ASYMMETRY RULE AND NUCLEON STRUCTURE (XIV v6)

In the FCD-RBv6 pregeometric framework, electric charge, light quark flavor, and nucleon composition are derived from a single topological entity: the trans-brane Einstein–Rosen (ER) dipole regularized at the Compton floor R₀ ≈ 0.6308 fm. The Standard Model treats electric charge...

THE BI-STABLE FLAVOR POTENTIAL AND WKB BETA DECAY (V v6)

In the standard electroweak theory, the free neutron lifetime (tau_n ≈ 879.4 s) is parameterized phenomenologically via the Fermi coupling constant G_F and the CKM matrix element V_ud, without providing a mechanical or geometric origin for the decay rate. In the pregeometric fram...

WORMHOLE-MEDIATED PAIR SEPARATION & ORIGIN OF THE TRANS-BRANE DIPOLE Baryogenesis, Dipole Formation, and Emergent Gravity (VII v6)

The Folded Crunch Dipole – Reversed Big Bang (FCD-RBv6) pregeometric model posits that every massive fermion in our visible brane is one endpoint of a trans-brane Einstein-Rosen (ER) dipole whose conjugate partner resides on a parallel, CPT-conjugate mirror brane. This work forma...

Y-GATE TOPOLOGY AND THE GEOMETRIC ORIGIN OF BLACK-HOLE MASS (IX v6)

In the pregeometric FCD-RBv6 framework, the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry and the strictly left-handed chiral coupling of weak interactions are resolved without invoking ad-hoc CP-violating phases. We formalize the 5D geometry of the Y-gate manifold, a tri-coordinated junc...

ENTANGLEMENT AS METRIC AND THE JACOBSON VACUUM SOLUTION (VIII v6)

Jacobson’s landmark derivation of the Einstein field equations from spacetime thermodynamics (δQ = T dS) leaves an unresolved foundational tension: in pure vacuum where matter-energy vanishes (δQ → 0), the thermodynamic metric definition risks formal degeneracy. In the pregeometr...

EMERGENT GRAVITY BY STATISTIC EXCLUSION MODES (X v6)

This paper explores the hypothesis that gravity is not a fundamental interaction but a macroscopic emergent effect produced by the local exclusion of pregeometric bulk microstates by matter. The guiding physical framework is the statistical physics of depletion, where massive bod...

BRAIDED ER BRIDGES AND WORMHOLES AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO GLUONS (VI v6)

In the pregeometric framework of FCD-RBv6, color confinement is reformulated not as a dynamical field mediated by massless vector gluons, but as a topological constraint originating from the non-abelian braiding of Einstein-Rosen (ER) bridges. We demonstrate that the three-strand...

The Quark ER Dipole: A Minimal Ontology for Matter (XIII v4)

We propose a minimal ontology for matter within the Folded Crunch Dipole Reversed Big Bang (FCD-RBv4) pregeometric framework, extending the trans-brane Einstein-Rosen (ER) dipole structure down to the sub-hadronic scale. Three closely uni ed hypotheses are introduced: (1) up- and...