This paper clarifies the internal structure of the BCB–VERSF research programme. Multiple papers within the programme employ different formalisms—conservation laws, capacity constraints, measurement dynamics, and effective field descriptions. The purpose of this paper is to make those levels explicit, to state clearly which claims belong to which layer, and to articulate the meta-theoretic status of the foundational constraint.
In the main paper we demonstrated that the fine-structure constant is exactly equal to an impedance mismatch between single-channel quantum transport and the two-polarization electromagnetic vacuum. That result explains what the fine-structure constant is. This paper explains why its value is close to 1/137 1/137, showing that it follows from the discrete combinatorial structure required for coherent relational configurations in the vacuum. Read together, the two papers show that α α is neither arbitrary nor fundamental, but an emergent quantity whose meaning and magnitude are both determined by vacuum structure.
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