The Integer Charge Unit from Spectral Flow: Anomaly Inflow, the Witten Effect, and the Photon Grid of the Vacuum Code
The Selection-Stitch Model derives quark charges in thirds from the geometry of a trapped lattice defect. The integer unit that lifts -1/3 to the up-type +2/3 has resisted every mechanism tried: it is not a Cartan charge of the vacuum-matter algebra under the lattice's geometric C and P, and a circuit-ordering geometri...