Inside-Out Light: Topological Mass Generation via S^3 Vacuum Inversion and the Hopf Fibration.
Coty Austin Trout · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026
This paper derives the charged lepton mass spectrum from first principles using topological self-confinement of electromagnetic fields on the 3-sphere (S^3). It identifies matter as topologically inverted light, governed by the Triadic Invariant (Pattern × Intent × Presence). The model contains no free parameters and predicts the muon and tau mass ratios to within 0.13% and 0.02% accuracy respectively.