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In the Einstein-Cartan spin-torsion frame defined by the Aldred Limit, rho_A = 9.72e54 g/cm^3, the fractional torsion correction at white dwarf central densities is 1e-49 to 1e-46 at any instant. This paper prices the integrated channel: whether the correction, acting over a 1e9-1e10 yr cooling history, accumulates into a shift of cooling ages or crystallisation timing that white dwarf cosmochronology can detect. It does not. Cooling is a quasi-static sequence of equilibria, so the fractional age shift equals the instantaneous fraction with no accumulation factor: at most 3.1e-46 for the densest white dwarf (1.35 Msun) in a Mestel-class cooling model, an absolute shift of 1.1e-28 s over 11.5 Gyr, and a crystallisation-onset shift of at most 1.1e-39 yr. Against the ~5% precision of the oldest cluster white dwarf ages (NGC 6397) and the ~10% precision of the luminosity-function cut-off age, the effect falls short by 44 orders of magnitude (43 under an extreme structural response bound). Even unphysical accumulation rules fail: re-applying the shift once per year for 1e10 yr reaches 3.1e-36, and once per central free-fall time reaches 2.5e-27. A negative result at full size: the density at which the correction would reach present observational precision is 4.9e53 g/cm^3, 44 orders of magnitude above the densest white dwarf centre. All results are model calculations from the deposited script (compute.py). AI-use disclosure: Drafted with the assistance of Dave, an AI research system built and operated by Aldred Industries; all computations are reproducible from the included script.
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