2025/12/09 by Wollbold, Jurgen
#FOS: Physical sciences #Physical Sciences and Mathematics #Physics #Quantum Physics #baryon structure #deep inelastic scattering #geometric physics #methane metauniverse #mmu #neutron #neutron eigenmodes
paper · doi:10.17605/osf.io/uv6p8
This project presents a geometric explanation of the neutron’s internal excitation spectrum using the Methane Metauniverse (MMU) model. In the MMU framework, every particle is a standing-wave configuration of a dual tetrahedral elastic cell with three internal axes w2, w3, w4 and one projection axis w1. The proton appears as a six sector torsional chair mode, while the neutron is modeled as a proton chair coupled to a centered electron mode through a shared S node. Using only physical constants, the proton charge radius, and the universal MMU stiffness laws k2 = 2 alpha hbar c / a3 and k3 = hbar c / a3, the model predicts a fully quantized five mode spectrum for the neutron: – Three high frequency proton chair modes at approximately 410, 710, and 820 MeV – Two soft internal electron modes at approximately 41 and 71 MeV A complete 5x5 eigenmode calculation reproduces known neutron features without adjustable parameters. These include the low energy spin flip excitations, the proton like resonance ladder, and the quantized plateaus in deep inelastic scattering. The results demonstrate that neutron quantization follows naturally from MMU geometry and that the internal mode structure of baryons can be understood as the normal modes of a dual tetrahedral elastic spacetime cell. This OSF project includes the full paper, visualizations of the proton and neutron MMU geometry, and Python code used for the eigenmode simulations.