Computational simulation demonstrates emergent fermion mass hierarchies in a topological network model, indicating that particle mass arises from vacuum network drag without intrinsic mass variables.
The current Paper 82 synthesis does not claim that a full continuum unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity has already been derived. It does show that the verified QGEFT repository now supports a complete, systematic translation of the Standard Model into network language. In the new Metropolis-Hastings benchmark of Section 2.3, three fermion generations share the identical base motif and differ only in background vacuum coupling (`N_higgs = 1, 8, 25`); each hop tears and reattaches these edges at quadratic cost `ΔE = ½κN_higgs(Δx)²`. Over 200,000 cycles (`T=1.0`, `κ=0.3`) the simulated acceptance rates match the analytic prediction `P_accept = e-ΔE/T` to four decimal places, and the emergent inertial mass (normalized to the electron) reaches `1.00 / 2.87 / 37.00` for Electron/Muon/Tau — the Tau is `37×` more massive than the electron purely from topological drag, with no intrinsic mass variable and no "Higgs particle" in the code. The same dictionary maps the photon to a snapping shockwave (Paper 80), the gluon to elastic tension (Paper 61), the weak bosons to motif phase transitions (Papers 56/57), and gravity to global routing with no graviton (Papers 43, 67).
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