This page collects the public research record of the QDL Physics Institute: peer-reviewed work, flagship synthesis, DOI-backed Zenodo records, benchmark packages, datasets, technical preprints, books, and executable-infrastructure milestones.
The current hierarchy is organized around the flagship monograph Physical Law as the Minimal Architecture of Persistence Under Closure, supported by the QDL roadmap, the peer-reviewed JTAP metrology article, the substrate capstone, the Toroidal QDC Knot, the QDC Completion Theorem, the SMEFT Γ(O) audit companion, the charged-lepton sequence, and executed residual-first benchmark records.
A fast guide to what kind of record each layer represents.
Peer-reviewed article
The JTAP metrology paper is the first peer-reviewed journal anchor for QDL.
Flagship synthesis
The Physical Law monograph is an open, DOI-backed, non-peer-reviewed research monograph and current top-level synthesis.
Zenodo records
The roadmap, substrate capstone, Toroidal QDC Knot, QDC Completion Theorem, SMEFT audit companion, and charged-lepton sequence are public DOI-backed research records.
Executed benchmarks
The benchmark records are residual-first methodological tests and explicitly do not claim new physical effects.
Conditional/theorem-gated work
Standard-Model, family, charged-lepton, gravitational, SMEFT, and cosmological branches are presented with claim-status limits, conditional gates, or open proof targets.
Navigation
For definitions and falsification criteria see Framework; for executed/proposed empirical work see Experiments; for the combined technical hub see Research Program.
For Editors and Referees
Fast paths for checking scope, evidence, and claim status.
The simplified public explanation connecting the publication record.
Core public explanationQDL LatticeClosure-persistent recurrence
One Architecture Behind the Papers
QDL models space not as absolute emptiness, but as a closure-compatible QDL Lattice of recurrence. Persistent particles are localized closure modes of that same structure. Composite particles are confined multi-channel modes. At larger scales, collective closure stress is investigated as a possible route to effective geometric response.
The publications below develop and test this architecture in stages: the monograph supplies the top-level synthesis; the roadmap gives the navigation record; the metrology paper anchors the first peer-reviewed foundation; the substrate capstone and Toroidal QDC Knot define the recurrence-substrate branch; the QDC Completion Theorem states the current completion-gate spine; the SMEFT audit companion provides a falsifiable operator-governance dataset; and the charged-lepton sequence develops the numerical spectrum application.
Claim-status note: the QDL Lattice is a substrate interpretation and research architecture. It is not a claim that microscopic lattice cells have already been directly observed, or that spacetime, spin, gravity, and the full particle spectrum have already been completely derived.
Bourassa, James D. (2026). Open Research Monograph, Version 1.0. QDL Physics Institute. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20940986
Frontispiece. Selected manifestations of closure-persistent recurrence. The diagram is conceptual rather than a literal microscopic image; its scientific content is assessed through predictive compression, explicit closure gates, and failure-sensitive tests.
This monograph states the broadest QDL thesis: physical law may be understood as the minimal architecture required for physical persistence under closure. It develops predictive compression as the central standard for theory appraisal: a reduced structure must determine a consequence not separately inserted, generate linked consequences, or exclude an otherwise viable alternative.
The monograph integrates QDL/QDC construction, matter and hypercharge selection, primitive three-family recurrence, ordered-pair charged-lepton phase structure, compact-phase locking, the spin-2 obstruction, and a closure-neutral vacuum-source theorem target. It also gives explicit no-fit boundaries for dimensionless gauge couplings and absolute mass scales.
Publication status is explicit: this is an openly archived, non-peer-reviewed scholarly monograph. It distinguishes strict theorems, conditional reconstructions, restricted minimality theorems, constrained branches, and open numerical or dynamical targets.
Suggested citation: Bourassa, James D. (2026). Physical Law as the Minimal Architecture of Persistence Under Closure: Predictive Compression, Ontological Unification, and the Vacuum-Energy Problem (Open Research Monograph, Version 1.0). QDL Physics Institute. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20940986
Navigation record. Consolidates QDL from closure admissibility to physical selection and explains the program layers, claim-status firewalls, failure modes, and validation paths.
Substrate architecture. Defines the substrate as closure-persistent residue of candidate Planck-scale fluctuation structure, not as a medium, material aether, or hidden substance.
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics, 20(3) · DOI: 10.57647/jtap.2026.2004.05
The first peer-reviewed journal publication for the QDL research program. It anchors the metrology application layer through dimensional closure, QMU ledgers, and the structural treatment of constants and measurement relations.
May 2026RoadmapProgram architectureClaim-status firewalls
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20346814
The QDL substrate architecture record. This capstone defines QDL as a residual-first closure-admissibility theory of physical persistence and frames the substrate as the closure-persistent residue of candidate Planck-scale fluctuation structure.
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20367493
Graphical abstract for the toroidal geometric substrate keystone.
The canonical QDL geometric substrate-mode paper. It models Planck-scale candidate structure as a closure-stable toroidal two-cycle recurrence knot and gives the substrate capstone a compact geometric persistence object.
The central identity is QDCT = VTω1ω2 ∼ L3F2, with closure sequence Tn,m → QDCT → ΓT(T) → CTQDL = 0 → RTQDL.
June 2026Completion theoremStandard-Model admissibilityOpen proof gates
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20692677
Graphical abstract for the QDC Completion Theorem. The figure separates exact or computed anchors from conditional reconstruction steps and explicitly open completion gates.
The current QDL completion-theorem spine. This record consolidates the route from the Planck-scale toroidal QDC substrate to local Standard-Model admissibility and gravitational recurrence, using exact anchors, conditional reconstruction gates, and declared open proof targets.
May 2026SMEFT Γ(O)Operator governanceMachine-readable audit
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo dataset · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20357001
The falsifiable operator-governance test for the QDL substrate program. This dataset provides representative source-anchored Warsaw-basis operator assignments, exact/source-anchored rows, strict-zero and compensator targets, verification taxonomy, data dictionary, changelog, sources table, README, workbook, and package ZIP.
May 2026Mass-spectrum sequenceKoide closureNumerical application
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20328260
The numerical spectrum application of QDL. This synthesis distinguishes derived occupancy-amplitude / Koide eigencone and relational-phase layers from phenomenological radial closure diagnostics.
U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 64/055,985
QDL Physics Institute has filed U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 64/055,985, titled Systems and Methods for Structural Admissibility Validation of Physical Measurement and Modeling Pipelines.
This filing marks the executable infrastructure phase of QDL: applying structural admissibility as a machine-executable validation layer for physical measurement, modeling, simulation, uncertainty analysis, AI-generated scientific outputs, sensor fusion, digital twins, and related technical workflows.
Core Closure Sequence
The broader technical map supporting the flagship synthesis.
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20076081
The earlier roadmap and claim-hierarchy paper for the QDL technical sequence. It organizes the framework around structural closure, numerical closure, residual tests, spectrum selection, constants, operators, gravity, and cosmology.
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20086069
The reference ledger and executable-check companion to the earlier roadmap paper. It supplies first-pass closure reconstructions across electroweak, flavor, gravitational, and cosmological targets.
Technical Pillars
Main hard-physics pillars supporting the QDL closure program.
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20086341
Develops the conditional Standard Model spectrum-selection result through gauge seed minimality, hypercharge closure, anomaly cancellation, and single-generation matter completion.
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20090053
Frames flavor structure through a conditional rank theorem and hierarchy audit covering three generations, Yukawa depth, CKM leakage, and PMNS neutral-flavor closure.
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20087107
Converts QDL operator governance into a reproducible SMEFT matrix audit with modular sector selection, anomalous-dimension closure, and violation taxonomy.
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20088462
Develops the gravity closure layer through Einstein–Hilbert minimality, Bianchi conservation, geodesic motion, Keplerian QDC recovery, and the Planck–electroweak hierarchy.
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20098523
Develops the neutral matching unit as a closure-grammar result linking binary–ternary sector coupling, Z6 operator grading, and electroweak residual preservation.
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20100436
Connects quantized dimensional closure to Compton localization-frequency structure and operator sector selection, sharpening the physical interpretation of the Quantized Dimensional Cell.
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Book. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18902770
This earlier book is a reader-facing synthesis of the QDL program. It remains useful background, but the current top-level synthesis is the flagship monograph Physical Law as the Minimal Architecture of Persistence Under Closure.