Neutron Reinterpretation: A Nonformal Octonionic Model for Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions

This work introduces an interacting-field model that reinterprets the neutron as a curvature-mediated intermediate state between proton and antiproton transformations, embedding antimatter and dark-sector dynamics in nucleon behaviour. Built on octonionic geometry, the formalism provides a purely geometric framework for quantum chromodynamics derived from the topology of intersecting subfields rather than from external parameters. The same curvature mechanism generates mass, electric charge, and coupling constants from first principles and predicts two characteristic light speeds. The model is parameter-free and testable, reproducing the fine-structure constant, Planck’s constant, the Higgs-boson mass and, within experimental uncertainties, the masses of the proton, neutron, electron, neutrino and their antiparticles.