Strong Interaction as Torsion Density Resonance

The strong interaction in conventional physics is described through colour charge,gluon exchange, and SU(3) gauge symmetry. QCD provides the successful quantitativedescription of confinement and hadronic structure within its domain; this paper developsthe geometric substrate from which those results emerge in the Cohesion Unified FieldTheory. The strong interaction arises from torsion density resonance between fractionaln = 6 closure segments (quarks) under n = 2 collapse pressure. The geometric structureof quarks and hadrons was established in the quark confinement paper [7]; this paperextends that account by identifying torsion density resonance as the specific bindingmechanism, distinguishing it from nuclear binding (the nuclear binding paper), anddeveloping the resonance collapse account of confinement. Confinement is a geometricnecessity: fractional closures cannot sustain continuance (the quark confinement paper),and the binding energy grows as the resonance collapses with separation. Gluonsare identified as torsion density exchange modes rather than independent particles.Resonance states are slip phase excitations of the composite recursion. This is the firstgeometric, mechanical, and scale-consistent account of the strong interaction within theCohesion UFT framework.