# THE CONSTANTS LEDGER — every fundamental constant, interrogated # (2026-07-10; the systematic sweep the mass-ratio result demanded) # For each: STATUS (derived / read / bounded / silent) + what it refined. # Companion: n94_constant_pairs.md — the dimensionless layer (pairs). # The sweep's rule: a constant that only confirms is worth less than # one that wounds. This sweep found one wound — recorded first. --------------------------------------------------------------------- THE WOUND FIRST — Lambda (the value, not the sign) --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: sign READ (positive — the pump bill, n87c); VALUE OPEN, and the sweep quantifies the tension: the observed dark-energy scale is (2.24 meV)^4 while the substrate scale exceeds 4.6e10 GeV (n92), so the xi^2 bill must be suppressed by UP TO (E_s/E_Lambda)^4 ~ 1e89 in face-value substrate units. The framework's mitigation is real — the GAUSSIAN-order bill is exactly zero (measured, n74), where QFT overshoots at leading order by 120 — but the residual second-order problem is ALIVE: why is xi^2's bill at the meV^4 scale? The toy's in-situ numbers (xi ~ 9e-4 from Mercury, bill ~ 2e-4 toy units) are small but the units bridge decides, and until it exists THE SECOND-ORDER COSMOLOGICAL-CONSTANT PROBLEM IS THIS FRAMEWORK'S SHARPEST UNEXPLAINED NUMBER. The streak needed a wound; here it is. --------------------------------------------------------------------- c — the speed of light --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: read (not fundamental — the substrate's acoustic speed). TEACHINGS: c_GW = c is AUTOMATIC (one substrate, one cone) — GW170817 at 1e-15 passed, bet F6 rolling. Photon dispersion must be quadratic- subluminal only (n92). NEW CARD ENTRY from this sweep: modern Michelson-Morley (optical resonators, Delta-c/c < 1e-18) bounds SUBSTRATE ANISOTROPY < 1e-18 — the lattice's rotational invariance is emergent to eighteen digits; any cubic-lattice anisotropy must be suppressed below that (consistent with l_s deep-UV; the (q*l_s)^2 suppression at optical q gives ~1e-70: passed with 50 orders to spare). --------------------------------------------------------------------- hbar — Planck's constant --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: assumed; three load-bearing jobs (n91): makes the vacuum solvent (concavity theorem), constitutes redshift (omega = E/hbar), prices the ledger (V = hbar*gamma*C). Inversion: gravity was never classical. VALUE: not derived, it is the unit. --------------------------------------------------------------------- G — Newton's constant --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: not recovered (n89); chained by the Q lock to the knee; the inverse arithmetic gives the knee window, and n93's cancellation sharpened it: gamma_knee = alpha*m*c^2/hbar — G CANCELS. G's appearance in the window was scaffolding; the audit rate is set by alpha and a mass alone. Constancy: Gdot/G < 1e-14/yr (LLR) = pump stability. Environment-independence: the CODATA-spread stance (systematics — falsifiable). --------------------------------------------------------------------- alpha — the fine-structure constant --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: read (alpha = 1/S_inf; S_inf = 202.588/493.83 pinned to 4-5 digits in the toy); ballpark vs 137 within 1-2 orders [numerology risk flagged]; running: NONE in our data (headstone 28 — the convergence was finite-size). Constancy < 1e-19/yr [atomic clocks] = the substrate-constancy card entry. Stance: the 5.4-sigma Cs/Rb discrepancy is systematics. QED's loop structure: the matter sector's 13-digit target (g-2). --------------------------------------------------------------------- e — the elementary charge --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: structure read, quantization NOT delivered (n90, honest gap). Teachings: charge = parity imbalance of consumption; |q| <= m (structural); the electron as extremal dressing; the millicharge floor m >= |q/e|*m_e (live falsifier, prediction 14). --------------------------------------------------------------------- m_p/m_e = 1836.15 --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: not derived; ordering forced (mu >= 1); the knee window's width IS mu, and a found knee picks the vacuum's counting mass (bet: the electron anchor — knee ~ 5.7e18 s^-1, soft X-ray); mu-dot < 6e-17/yr feeds substrate constancy (n93). --------------------------------------------------------------------- m_e, m_p separately; Yukawas; masses of mu, tau; neutrino masses --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: SILENT — matter sector absent (and its one structural attempt is headstone 27). The framework knows only: every charged mass >= m_e; nucleon mass is ~99.95% neutral consumption (QCD-consistent). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lambda_QCD, alpha_s — the strong sector --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: SILENT; the confinement attempt died with a theorem (headstone 25: budget bounds cannot confine — dilution must be punished, not capped). The framework knows what the strong force is NOT (in its class), nothing about what it is. --------------------------------------------------------------------- G_F, v (weak scale, Higgs) — the electroweak sector --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: SILENT. No chiral structure, no SU(2), no symmetry breaking. Named as absent; no partial claim exists. --------------------------------------------------------------------- H_0, Omega_m, cosmology beyond Lambda's sign --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: SILENT on dynamics — the framework has no expansion history, no FRW sector, no early universe. Its only cosmological statements: Lambda > 0 (the bill's sign), dark matter must be real+self- interacting (n84), G-drift/w(z) co-variation direction (F8), and the third-peak argument that killed its own baryon-tracking alternative. --------------------------------------------------------------------- k_B, mu_0, epsilon_0, N_A --------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: conventional (unit definitions); nothing to interrogate. --------------------------------------------------------------------- THE SWEEP'S BALANCE --------------------------------------------------------------------- One wound found and promoted (the second-order CC problem: up to 1e89 face-value, the framework's sharpest open number). One new card entry (substrate isotropy < 1e-18, passed with 50 orders of margin). One clean cancellation confirmed in the ledger (G out of the knee formula). Five sectors honestly SILENT (matter masses, strong, weak, cosmological dynamics, quantization of charge). The pattern of the whole framework in one table: loud exactly where it has theorems and locks, silent exactly where it has no sector, and now carrying its own 1e89 openly — which no theory-of-everything pamphlet would do.