Stellar nucleosynthesis
RSI explains why heavy elements form only inside stars, where inflowing medium crushes protons together until they lock into nuclei.
Protons repel one another. In RSI, this is because each proton's wake in the field clashes with the other's and creates turbulence. The background 0.73 N tension of deep space is too weak to push two protons close enough for their Pressure Shadows to overlap. So heavy atoms such as iron or uranium cannot form on their own in empty space.
They need a forge. RSI describes a star as a macroscopic resonant cavity: a large, local gravity well where the field is very dense and the medium rushes inward at great speed. The weight of this inflow physically rams protons together.
Once the star's gravity pushes protons past their repulsive boundary, their density shadows overlap. Then the Topological Casimir Effect of 8.23 × 10²⁸ Pa takes over. This is the outside pressure of the field, and it locks the protons permanently into a heavy nucleus.
From the paper: Chapter VI, Stellar Nucleosynthesis: The Macroscopic Forge. Read the full section
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