NUCLEAR COHESION WITHOUT COULOMB REPULSION (XVII v4)

We present a complete pregeometric formulation of nuclear cohesion within the FCD-RBv4 framework. In this paradigm, nuclear binding is not mediated by an independent strong interaction or the exchange of massive virtual mesons (Yukawa’s ansatz) at the nuclear scale, but emerges as a direct consequence of the toroidal phase synchronization of dual-helicoidal fields belonging to the nucleon’s constituent Einstein-Rosen (ER) bridges. We show that when the toroidal helical fields of adjacent nucleons are locked in an anti-phase configuration (∆ ϕ = π), their local electromagnetic fields constructively interfere in the bulk, producing a local Casimir-like geometric binding potential that completely overrides classical point-charge Coulomb repulsion. Furthermore, we geometrically derive the seven nuclear magic numbers (2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, and 126) from the close-packing of toroidal rings in a three-dimensional lattice, removing the necessity of spin-orbit coupling corrections as ad hoc phenomenological parameters. Finally, we derive the free-neutron lifetime (τ n ≈ 880 s) as the characteristic quantum decoherence time of an isolated ER bridge.