Paper T19: Energy Transport and Strain Propagation in the Holosphere Lattice

This paper defines a transport-first model of energy in the Holosphere lattice. Energy is treated as coherence strain in motion, carried by migrating vacancy defects in a discrete, rotating phase network. Defect motion is biased by the local coherence-phase gradient and hard-gated by triadic admissibility, so transport proceeds only along jointly viable three-channel corridors. Planck-scale energy manifestation is suppressed because strain is compartmentalized across inter-shell boundaries, most micro-scale incompatibilities terminate internally, and only a thin set of triad-compatible modes externalize as mesoscale carriers. Dissipation is recast as recoherence: defects terminate as distinct carriers when geometric closure forces re-contact and phase restoration in compatibility basins, rather than by stochastic thermal dumping. Gravity is interpreted as the macroscopic envelope of extremely sparse, directional strain transport on the Holosphere meso-lattice, yielding weak but persistent long-range influence. The paper establishes the carrier, gating, corridor, and termination primitives that are compiled into the variational (Lagrangian) closure in Paper 25.