Emergent Electromagnetic Interactions and Virtual Photon Exchange via Topological Ripples in QGEFT

Paper 32 does not claim that full continuum QED or the physical fine-structure constant have already been derived on a graph. It does show that a deterministic QGEFT ripple benchmark on a `10 x 10` vacuum lattice can support a weak but explicit attraction surrogate: a baseline nucleus-electron distance of `18` contracts to `17.999810`, the best binding-energy reduction reaches `\Delta E \approx 0.000011`, and the interacting defects remain positively synchronized throughout the benchmark with coherence fraction `1.0000`.