The Bundle Frequency — A Resonance Test of the β⁻ Decay Rate Named by Wavon Mechanic

Abstract Wavon Mechanics (WM) is a lattice theory that writes every particle as a seat of three letters (a ·b · c). In its ledger the neutron carries the same letters as the proton (a₆b₃) plus one bundle —three two-letter seats, ac + ca + bb, letters a₂b₂c₂ — and β⁻ decay is the rearrangement of thatbundle into the seats of the electron (cab) and the antineutrino (acb). The energy the bundleholds inside the neutron is read directly from measurement: mₙ − mₚ = 1.2933 MeV. By WM'sground rule ("energy appears only as wavelength") this energy corresponds to one frequency: fb= 3.127 × 10²⁰ Hz (λb = 958.6 fm). This paper offers that number as a pre-registered test:irradiating a neutron-rich nucleus (¹³⁷Cs) or free neutrons with photons tuned to the bundlefrequency (1.2933 MeV) should change the β⁻ decay rate resonantly. Standard physics has nochannel by which photons of this energy alter a β decay rate (giant resonances lie above 10MeV, photonuclear thresholds above 6 MeV, and the electron-shell channels do not exist for theβ⁻ of ¹³⁷Cs or the free neutron), so its expectation is zero. Two natural sources sit within 176–238ppm of the resonance — ¹¹⁶ᵐIn (1293.56 keV) and ⁴¹Ar (1293.64 keV) — while the two lines of ⁶⁰Co(1173 · 1332 keV) provide off-resonance controls of the same kind. If the decay rate changesonly on the resonance lines, WM's bundle picture has hit a number no other theory names; if itdoes not change, the method hypothesis "resonance opens the bundle" dies — the lattice itselfdoes not die by this test. This paper does not predict the size of the effect; WM cannot yetproduce that number.