The Strong Force Within the Framework of HoloGenesis

In this article, we introduce the definition of the strong force according to the HoloGenesis framework. The so-called “strong force” has long been interpreted in the Standard Model as the action of quarks bound by gluon flux tubes, quantified by a confinement string tension sigma. Yet gluons remain empirically unobserved as free carriers, and the ontology of quarks is itself speculative. HoloGenesis rejects this particle-zoo framework and recasts the persistence of sigma as the empirical trace of a deeper structural law: the resistance of the dark cloud lattice to curvature rupture. In this reformulation, confinement tension is expressed as the ratio of Planck’s constant times the slot frequency, divided by the confinement core width. This anchors the strong interaction in frequency coherence rather than force mediation. Both the QCD-scale anchoring and the slot-fraction method reproduce the observed value of sigma, about 0.9 GeV per femtometre, while the associated stiffness K0 on the order of 10^20 joules per square metre defines the natural curvature rigidity of the lattice at femtometre scales. Conclusion: The strong force is not a separate fundamental interaction but the innermost expression of frequency coherence in curvature. © 2025 Grégoire Mommaerts. HoloGenesis. This work is protected under international copyright law.