Resolving the Neutron Lifetime Anomaly via Discrete Lattice Boundary Impedance and the Dual-Clock Truncation Mechanism

The 4.1-sigma discrepancy between beam (tau ~ 888.0 +/- 2.0 s) and bottle (tau ~ 879.4 +/- 0.6 s) measurements of the free neutron lifetime remains an unresolved tension in precision nuclear metrology. Standard Model extensions, including dark decay channels, lack direct empirical support. In this manuscript, we explore an alternative resolution derived from evaluating the spatial vacuum as a discrete, quantifiable thermodynamic lattice. To construct this model, we outline the topological boundary conditions of a discrete substrate—deriving the Euclidean action instanton suppression factor (e^-2) and identifying the inverse fine-structure constant (alpha^-1 ~ 137.036) as the discrete Shannon capacity limit of a fundamental causal boundary. Applying these constraints to standard hadronic geometry, we demonstrate that the free neutron possesses a 29.214-bit incommensurate topological formatting conflict. We model this discrete geometric friction as an engine of instability, generating the 1.29 MeV isospin mass splitting via the gluon trace anomaly. To bridge this to the experimental anomaly, we introduce the Infodynamic Shear Tensor (Upsilon_mu_nu) to formalize how macroscopic magnetic gradients in modern UCN bottle traps excite a massive dilaton scalar mode, which acts as an infodynamic insulator. This boundary collision induces a localized geometric compression of the spatial lattice, shifting the axial-vector coupling (g_A) upward via the GMOR relation and accelerating the thermal state-rejection of the node. This mechanism addresses the measurement gap without violating kinematic Q-values, higher-order radiative loop corrections, or CKM unitarity constraints. We outline a prospective laboratory test utilizing a magnetic wiggler with longitudinal adiabatic extraction to verify the macroscopic scaling law.