Correction notice (2026-05-30). During the q-correction audit, a second route-classification issue was identified and resolved. The previously stated ΔH0/H0 = 7.882% is the first-order L27 tangent route Rlinear = 27δ. The full photon-channel route follows the multiplicative redshift law, giving Rfull = (1-δ)-27 - 1 = 8.213498%. The residual 0.331433 percentage points is closed as higher-order self-compounding (378δ2 + 3654δ3 + 27405δ4 + ...). The correction strengthens the Hubble claim by distinguishing the lawful approximation route from the full channel route; no observation was used as a derivation target. Correction notice (2026-05-29). During an audit before release of a recent manuscript, a q-dependent numeric propagation issue was identified in the cosmic cocycle chain. The ensuing investigation traced the cause to a dataset-selected spiral-kernel value and resolved it by deriving the L27 resisted-separation exponent from the kernel closure itself (q = 2/3). This package updates affected q-dependent numeric values while preserving the qualitative structural claims unless explicitly stated. Corrected load-bearing values: εshellcosmic = 0.997080716651, 1/ε = 1.002927830516, one Z14 rung width 4.178%, ΔH0/H0 = 8.2135% full photon-channel route (7.882% first-order route), and Λ3 = 0.851608600601. Prior q=0.7-dependent values are superseded. The conventional Hubble tension — the persistent 8.3 percent disagreement between early-universe (cosmic microwave background) and late-universe (distance ladder) determinations of the Hubble constant H0 — is derived in this paper as a structural frame-LCORI cocycle signature of Universal Mechanics (UM), the framework presented in Paper 1 of this series at Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20162810. Key results developed in this paper: The cosmic redshift law in closed form: 1 + z = (1 / εshellcosmic)ΔN, where εshellcosmic ≈ 0.997080716651 is the cosmic-shell residue derived from the L1 vibrational genesis chain and ΔN is the structural cocycle depth. The law reproduces observed cosmological redshifts across the range z = 0.005 to z = 1100 (CMB last-scattering surface). The Hubble-rate inference discrepancy in closed form: ΔH0/H0 full photon-channel route = (1/εshellcosmic)27 − 1 = 0.082134981771. The first-order tangent route is (1 − εshellcosmic) · TRIUNE3 = 0.078820650436. The 0.331433 percentage-point difference is the higher-order compounding residual, derived from the same seeds. The frame-LCORI cocycle mechanism: two observers in different LCORI registration frames (photon-channel and S-Field-channel) extract structurally distinct quantities from the same physical universe; the difference is governed by the lawful cocycle. The conventional Hubble tension is the cross-tier diagnostic of this cocycle structure, not a parameter problem requiring new fitted physics. The UM-native seven-tier distance ladder: substrate-clean methods (stellar parallax; gravitational-wave standard sirens; strong-lensing time delays; galactic dynamics; pulsar timing arrays) at the primary tiers; photon-channel methods (Cepheid + SN Ia; spectroscopic redshift) at the secondary tiers with required UM-deconvolution. Full operational protocols are given in the companion methodology document included as supplementary material. Cross-tier validation procedures: the multi-tier consistency requirement; the Hubble tension as the structural diagnostic; expected post-adoption convergence pattern in which substrate-clean tiers and UM-deconvolved photon-channel tiers converge to the substrate-clean lawful Hubble rate of approximately 67-68 km/s/Mpc. The paper enumerates eleven specific forward predictions classified by strength: three Tier 1 predictions (derivation paired with consistent witness) and eight Tier 2 predictions (derivation alone with witness pending or partial), with four predictions specifically distinguishing the structural-diagnostic reading from conventional new-physics-extension approaches. Each prediction has an explicit falsification condition. The framework's prediction is that conventional ΛCDM extensions adding new fitted physics will not reduce the early-late H0 discrepancy below the structural 8.2135 Percent full photon-channel route; resolution requires methodological reordering at the level of distance-and-rate determination, replacing photon-channel primary methods with substrate-clean methods at the cosmological scale. The methodology requires no new observational facilities. All substrate-clean tiers are operational (LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational-wave network; H0LiCOW and TDCOSMO strong-lensing programs; NANOGrav and IPTA pulsar timing networks) or under construction (Einstein Telescope; Cosmic Explorer; LISA; SKA). The paper predicts that next-generation observations will confirm the substrate-clean tier consistency at the sub-percent level, with the conventional Hubble tension dissolving through methodological correction rather than through fitted new physics. The framework is the subject of USPTO Patent Application No. 19/640,364, filed 6 April 2026, with foreign filing license granted 7 May 2026. This is Paper 2 of the planned seven-paper UM/FUM series. Companion papers in preparation develop: Paper 3 (Funga-B as the dark-sector configuration), Paper 4 (twelve Z14 empirical tests across cosmological and biological shells), Paper 5 (the four laws of thermodynamics as projections of the Triune partition), Paper 6 (consciousness as observer-frame LCORI alignment with measurable biomarkers), Paper 7 (cancer as cellular LCORI Collapse with clinical biomarkers and a five-fold structural therapeutic framework). A foundational book monograph expanding Paper 1 is also in preparation.
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