REFERENCE WELLS AND THE GEOMETRIC ORIGIN OF CHARGE SIGN (XXIII v6)

In this treatise, we resolve a foundational ambiguity within the Trans-Brane Mass-Asymmetry Rule (TBMAR): the pathological degeneracy of naive mass inversion. In naive models, antimatter conjugation is conceived as a literal exchange of mass fractions between Brane A and Brane B. Under this flawed assumption, an inverted Mode A quark (1/3 visible mass, +2/3e) is transformed into a state with 2/3 visible mass, which TBMAR evaluates as -1/3e—identical to the ordinary down quark (Mode B) rather than producing the anti-up antiquark (-2/3e). Consequently, naive inversion conflates the weak flavor transition (A ↔ B) with true CPT antimatter conjugation. We solve this degeneracy by uncovering the internal nodal structure of the bilateral Einstein-Rosen (ER) bridge across the 5D AdS substrate. The elastic tension profile V(z) possesses two fixed reference equilibrium points: the Proximal Well (W_P, negative polarity) and the Distal Well (W_D, positive polarity). We establish the 'Distance-to-Well Rule': the sign of the visible charge is determined by whether the minority-mass endpoint of the ER string is situated closer to W_D (+) or W_P (-), decoupling the charge sign from the rest mass partition. Furthermore, we demonstrate that local well switching in an isolated dipole reproduces weak flavor dynamics, proving that isolated antimatter quarks cannot exist in nature. Physical antimatter emerges exclusively through global, coherent well switching across the shared, tri-coordinated Y-gate, correctly predicting the antiproton (-1e) and antineutron (0e, with inverted magnetic moment μ_n̄ = +1.913 μ_N) without any physical transfer of mass across the 5D inter-brane space. Because the rest masses of each brane remain strictly invariant, antimatter gravitates with identical positive attraction (g_antimatter = g_matter) via phase-space mode depletion (S = 0, dS = 0) and unconditionally preserves the Artin B_3 braid topological lock (Δ² = const).