Baryon Bridge Fields
A CAELIX thin-slab bridge experiment using balanced-ternary integer transport, colour-labelled source motifs and meson-like release diagnostics
Run Experiment
Open the live browser experiment as a single-run view.
What Is It?
This experiment places three colour-labelled CAELIX source motifs at the vertices of a triangle inside a balanced-ternary integer field. The motifs are not literal quarks. They are loaded source structures used to test whether bridge-like field regions can form between them, store work and release smaller meson-like motifs.
The experiment is inspired by baryon and meson language, but it is not a QCD simulator, not Lattice QCD and not a Standard Model calculation. The colour channels are diagnostic rendering and bookkeeping fields over a single underlying CAELIX transport field.
What It Tests
The experiment asks whether three coupled source motifs can generate a confined bridge field without hard-coding a continuum force law. The bridge can accumulate burden, develop a measurable stored-energy state and discharge through snap-like events.
When a bridge releases, the experiment creates short-lived ghost staging objects that can promote into meson-like structures. These promoted structures are classified as dipole or quad templates according to local transverse support, bridge energy and residue structure. Dipoles dominate in the calibrated browser run; quads appear less often and typically pop sooner.
How It Works
The field is stored as integer φ and velocity-like registers on a slab-native array. The public browser calibration uses SLAB_NZ = 1, so the z-aware storage and metrics remain present, but the visible experiment is a thin slab. Tests with deeper slabs change the behaviour substantially and are reserved for the native implementation.
Each source motif stamps an axis-preferential dipole along its preferred inward direction. The three source frequencies are diagnostic tags that help separate contributions in the rendered colour fields. The field law itself is single-channel: bounded integer transport, burden accumulation and hidden-band drainage.
The moving points wobble because they sample local φ and burden asymmetry and feed that back through a small voxelgear-style routing phase. The motion is bounded substrate feedback, not a prescribed orbit and not a literal quark trajectory.
Modes
Locked keeps the source geometry constrained, making bridge formation and confinement easiest to inspect.
Elastic lets the triangle flex while preserving a recognisable bound structure.
Free allows the source axes and positions to respond more openly to the field, producing a more diffuse release pattern.
Switching between these modes resets the experiment state. That avoids carrying stale bridge energy, drain events or meson statistics from one geometry regime into another.
Metrics
The live panel is split into three groups.
Core reports field, bridge, drift, snap and drain-site behaviour.
Meson reports active and cumulative meson-like motifs, dipole/quad counts, lifetimes and bridge energy.
Motif reports substrate residues after meson pops, including current and last-pop residue classifications.
Bridge energy is not a particle count. It is a stored-work diagnostic over a bridge segment. Bridge release now uses event-style gating rather than a fixed cooldown, so meson-like structures are created when the bridge crosses release conditions and has a live field signal, not simply when a timer expires.
What Is Not Hard-Coded
- No QCD field equations are supplied.
- No QCD, Lattice QCD, or continuum force equation is supplied.
- No literal quark trajectories are imposed.
- No meson species are labelled as physical particles.
- No bridge or junction is drawn as a fixed object.
The bridge, snap, dipole and quad behaviours are measured from the evolving substrate fields and diagnostic classifiers. The particle language is intentionally limited to structural, meson-like motifs.
Why It Matters
Baryon Bridge Fields is a useful CAELIX diagnostic because it sits between a pure field visualiser and a native particle-lab runtime.
It tests whether a small set of source motifs can produce bridge stress, stored work, release events and short-lived residue motifs through local integer transport.
The browser version should be read as a thin-slab demonstrator. Deeper z behaviour, richer motif libraries, species classification and long-run statistics belong in the Rust/Metal implementation, where the same ideas can be tested without stuffing a JavaScript file until it wheezes.