SCALE SEPARATION DISCOVERY (2026-03-27)
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The 3D torus ZPE bond and the V8 chemical bond are DIFFERENT FORCES:

1. NUCLEAR (this session): torus-torus vacuum ZPE
   V ~ exp(-1.13 * gap_Planck)
   Range: ~10 Planck lengths
   This is QCD confinement at the lattice scale

2. CHEMICAL (V8 formula): breather tunneling between kink wells
   D_e = pi/d^2 * E_harm
   Range: ~1 Angstrom = ~10^25 Planck lengths
   This is electron sharing (covalent bond)

Both from the same Lagrangian, different scales.
The proton radius = 5.2e19 Planck lengths.
Our R_maj=6 simulation is a toy torus.

r_tube=3 is the minimum stable poloidal winding.
This is set by the kink width (~3 sites) needing to fit
around the tube circumference (2*pi*r_tube = 18.8 sites).
