Energy Filament Theory (Version: EFT 7.0)
Ring Particles and the Lineage of Matter
— Closure, Locking, and the Making of Matter
The EFT Manual of the Universe's Underlying Mechanics | Volume 2
By Guanglin Tu
ORCID: 0009-0003-7659-6138 · Original Work DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18757546
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Title: Ring Particles and the Lineage of Matter — Closure, Locking, and the Making of Matter
Series: The EFT Manual of the Universe's Underlying Mechanics | Volume 2
Author: Guanglin Tu
Theory Name: Energy Filament Theory (EFT)
Version: EFT 7.0
Original Work DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18757546
Learning Gateway DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18517411
Structured Knowledge Base DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18853200
ORCID: 0009-0003-7659-6138
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This series—
The EFT Manual of the Universe’s Underlying Mechanics—
is dedicated to my children, Yiyi and Tutu,
whom I have never forgotten.
In the years to come,
I will continue to seek the truth of the universe
and search for where you have gone.
Sections
- 2.0 A Minimal EFT Overview and an Introduction to This Volume
- 2.1 Retiring the "Point Particle": Why Particles Must Be Treated as Structures
- 2.2 The Sea-Filament Blueprint: Sea → Filament → Particle (A Unified Entry Point into Particle Origins)
- 2.3 Locking: What It Means for a Structure to Sustain Itself
- 2.4 Attributes Are Not Stickers: The Structure-Sea State-Attribute Mapping Table (Master Table)
- 2.5 Mass and Inertia: Why "Tighter" Means "Heavier" (Taking Over from Higgs)
- 2.6 Charge: Why It Attracts and Repels
- 2.7 Spin, Chirality, and Magnetic Moment: From Mysterious Quantum Numbers to the Geometry of Circulation
- 2.8 The Locking Window: Why Stable Particles Are So Hard to Obtain, Yet Can Still Become Abundant
- 2.9 Particle Lineages: Stable, Short-Lived, and Transient (Three-State Layering)
- 2.10 Generalized Unstable Particles (GUP): Why Short-Lived Structures Are the Norm and the Entry Point into the Base Ledger
- 2.11 Decay and Deconstruction: How Unstable Particles Make Their Exit
- 2.12 Particles in Evolution: A Selection Theory
- 2.13 Conserved Quantities and Quantum Numbers: Not Axioms, but Consequences of Structural Symmetry
- 2.14 The Geometric Definition of Antimatter and Antiparticles, and Annihilation: Mirror Structures and Deconstructive Injection Back into the Sea
- 2.15 Leptons at a Glance: Why the Electron Is Stable, Why μ/τ Are Short-Lived, and Why Neutrinos Barely Couple
- 2.16 The Electron: The First Supporting Beam of Orbitals and the Structure of Matter
- 2.17 Neutrinos: Weak Coupling Does Not Mean Irrelevance
- 2.18 μ/τ: The Short-Lived Lineage and the Structural Consequences of a Narrower Window
- 2.19 The Quark Family: Flavor, Color, and Generations
- 2.20 The Hadronic Lineage: Mesons, Baryons, and Resonance States (rewriting the particle table as a structural family tree)
- 2.21 The Proton: Why It Can Serve as the Long-Term Foundation of Matter
- 2.22 The Neutron: Why a Free Neutron Decays and Why a Neutron Inside a Nucleus Is More Stable
- 2.23 The Atomic Nucleus: Interlocking Networks, Saturation, the Hard Core, and the Valley of Stability
- 2.24 The Atom and Orbitals: The Structural Origin of Discrete Energy Levels
- 2.25 Molecules and Chemical Bonds: The First Step from Particles to Structural Machines
- 2.26 States of Matter and Material Properties: The Microscopic Origin of Conductivity, Magnetism, and Strength
- 2.27 Crosswalk and Takeover: How the Standard Model "Particle Table" Is Rewritten as a Structural Family Tree
- 2.28 Volume Summary: Particles Are Not Nouns, but Evolving Lineage Systems