Step 046 — Defect-bundle formalism

A physical entity is defined as a localized persistent defect bundle: a stable, structured deviation from the vacuum torus / carrier state.

Book / layer. Book IV · E1
Macro step. CS-05 — Recover Internal Physical Grammar
Short routes. https://prrp.site/s46 · https://prrp.site/s046

Status tags. readout

Construction role

A physical entity is defined as a localized persistent defect bundle: a stable, structured deviation from the vacuum torus / carrier state. The defect bundle is the constructive replacement for “particle on a stage”. Its persistence is not postulated externally; it is the preservation of address, holonomy, charge, mass, spin, and transport invariants under the admissible $E_1$ readout. A particle kind is therefore an equivalence class of stable defect-bundle realizations, not a numerically identical substrate piece.

What this step earns

Defect-bundle formalism is made addressable as Step 046 in the fine-grained Construction Spine routing layer.

• Routing scaffold. Detailed earned-output extraction is pending the source-map pass.

What this step does not yet establish

This route exposes the RC3 construction step for inspection. It does not by itself establish peer review, empirical adequacy, or final manuscript-level source closure.

Source anchors

• Full Construction Spine RC3 whitepaper source (papers/whitepapers/panta-rhei-construction-spine-e0-e3/main.tex:674)

Manuscript extraction state: Detailed source anchors pending extraction.

Anchor classification: whitepaper source resolved; manuscript extraction pending; Registry extraction pending; TauLib extraction pending.

Formalization and verification

Registry links: Registry extraction pending.

TauLib modules: TauLib module extraction pending.

Dependencies

• Previous: Step 045 — Self-description on the T² fiber
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