Mass in the Cohesion Unified Field Theory is not a substance, a field excitation, or aparameter inserted into equations. It is a geometric consequence of recursion underpressure. A coherence node is a trapped recursion whose internal recursion rate isslower than the inherited recursion rate of the substrate. The difference is the mass.This paper integrates the qualitative geometric structure of the mass spectrum with aquantitative torsion interval scaling model. The electron is the minimal n = 6 closure;the muon and tau are higher-order closure modes with increased torsion density. Quarksare fractional closure states whose masses arise from partial torsion accumulation.The torsion interval scaling factors λ1 ≈ 206.8 and λ2 ≈ 16.8 are established hereas empirical anchors: the framework predicts that discrete torsion intervals exist anddetermines their ordering, but the first-principles geometric derivation of the exact λvalues is the primary open problem identified in this paper. Using the empirical λvalues as inputs, the predicted lepton masses agree with CODATA values to within3.3% (muon) and 2.2% (tau). This is the first unified particle-level mass derivation inthe Cohesion Unified Field Theory. The exact λ values remain to be derived from thetorsion interval geometry.
Dexter Gilbert (2026) studied this question.