The Chain: α = 1/137 as Operational Parameter from the Black Hole to the Living Cell

The fine-structure constant α ≈ 1/137.036 governs the probability of every photon-electron interaction. This paper traces α through the complete cycle of the universe — from the Transcendental Void (the Infinite-Absolute-Eternal, the motionless motor of everything that changes) through its first polarisation at the Bifurcation Point, the centripetal concentration into the black hole, the emergence of dark matter and light in relativistic jets, atomic formation through centripetal confinement, stellar nucleosynthesis (the 3rd Heaven — the world of Matter), photosynthesis, metabolic transformation, mitochondrial electron transport, to the ionic gradient that powers the living cell. Each link is documented with published data. The chain itself — the cycle — has never been assembled. The paper includes five falsifiable predictions, each testable with existing instruments. The framework is that of George Ohsawa (1893-1966), whose 7 Universal Laws and 12 Yin-Yang Theorems, formulated from 1929, describe a monist logic in which a single principle operates at every scale. This paper proposes that the physical identity of that principle is α = 1/137.