Eradicating the Axion

Abstract

Title: Eradicating the Axion: Resolving the Strong CP Problem via Hadronic Spatial Stress Vectors, Over-Clocked Boundary Tethers, and Topological Hemispheric Locking Author: Marco Lindenbeck Description: Standard Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) models hadronic interactions through continuous SU(3) gauge fields and fractional point-particle quarks, predicting a CP-violating vacuum angle that requires an artificial fine-tuning to < 10⁻¹⁰ or the postulation of an undetected particle (the Axion). In this paper, hadronic mechanics are formally refactored through the discrete framework of Substrate Logistics. I demonstrate that "quarks" are not physical point-particles, but rather 3D spatial stress-vectors (+2/3 2D planar tension, -1/3 1D linear tethers), "gluons" are redundant continuous-field approximations, and the neutron is an over-clocked 1837th-state node utilizing a borrowed adjacent boundary tether as an inter-cellular bridge. Nuclear binding is shown to operate via topological P-N-P inter-cellular tethering rather than continuous gauge-boson exchange. By locking hadronic cores across a 6-face Hemispheric Lock (α_s = 6/50), the background 36° chiral twist of Poincaré Dodecahedral Space (S³/I*) enforces exact dual-hemispheric phase cancellation (+216° - 216° = 0.000°). Residual instanton noise is attenuated across the Universal Attenuation Tensor down to an upper bound of 9.970 × 10⁻¹³ rad, permanently resolving the Strong CP Problem and rendering the Peccei-Quinn axion hypothesis entirely redundant.