From the journal to the lab.
Each dated entry below is quoted from the journals, followed by what the calculations show now.
The day the idea that became Quantum Harmonic Distortion (QHD) began.
This journal is a map, not a set of blueprints.
NOWEvery calculation starts from the map, with the expected result written down first.
Harmonic Resonance holds things together at the electron level. Vibrational frequencies are the mechanical force!
NOWElectrons sit in standing waves, and a crystal stands only if every vibration frequency is real. That is the test applied to every structure we report.
If you want to change the information in a particle, you must persuade it to exist. We must sing to it!
NOWMaterials have a music. QHD listens to a lattice's vibrations to find the arrangements it prefers.
The plate never accelerates … but it now contains an internal stress wave.
NOWIn Li₈Au the gold sits centered under zero net force while the lithium cage carries a balanced internal stress.
A tetrahedron inscribed in a sphere: with one corner on the axis, the other three sit at 19.47° latitude.
NOWTetrahedral lithium geometry (the TB-4 study) led to the J phase, Li₈Au.
The J phase preprint is public (doi:10.5281/zenodo.23569302). The first gold–zinc–lithium structure met 4 of 5 predictions. The path continues.