Fast Radio Bursts as Quantum Plasma Circuit Resolution

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) present a tripartite observational crisis under the standard point-source propagation model: brightness temperatures reaching T_b ~ 10³⁵ K exceeding known emission mechanism limits by two orders of magnitude; millisecond coherence preserved across hundreds of millions of light-years of turbulent intergalactic medium; and isotropic energy budgets requiring 10³⁸–10⁴⁰ J released in milliseconds from a stellar remnant approximately 10 km in diameter. These are not peripheral anomalies. They are the systematic mathematical signature of a wrong propagation assumption applied to a phenomenon that does not propagate in the assumed manner. We present the Cosmic Circuit Framework (CCF): FRBs are circuit resolution events in a pre-existing, cosmologically distributed, quantum-coherent plasma filament network. The undiluted arrival of FRB signals across cosmological distances is the central observable that demands explanation. No inverse-square-law propagation model accounts for it without invoking unverified exotic source physics. The CCF accounts for it through the waveguide properties of Birkeland current filament systems and collective quantum coherence in strongly-coupled plasma — both grounded in peer-reviewed physics. This version provides full mathematical treatment of five identified requirements: (i) mathematical formalism via Bennett pinch conditions, plasma waveguide electrodynamics, and the Ishihara (2024) entanglement Hamiltonian; (ii) quantitative derivations of the brightness temperature indictment, waveguide versus free-space energy budgets, and the gap tomography correlation statistic; (iii) decoherence consistency via collective plasma mode coherence lengths and the empirical decoherence argument from observed FRB coherence itself; (iv) full electrodynamic consistency via Maxwell's equations, Lorentz force filament dynamics, and magnetised plasma wave equations; and (v) relativistic causality via the quantum no-communication theorem and the subluminal construction of circuit infrastructure. The framework makes three immediately testable predictions. It does not require new physics. It requires a corrected propagation model applied to physics that is already established.