Papers · William Alexander Aldred

The Census of Charge: Every Mechanism That Quantizes Charge, Its Price, and the One Number None of Them Derives

Published October 29, 2026 · Zenodo · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23774107

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Every mechanism in the literature that quantizes electric charge, graded on what it actually delivers and what it pays. The census's result is a class statement, printed at full size: no known mechanism derives the value of e unconditionally — by this program, or by anyone.

Paper 31 of 95 in the published register. The full text is published on Zenodo under a permanent DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23774107.

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