{
 "format": "LSC-1",
 "lsc": "LSC-1",
 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE COULOMB CARD",
 "handle": "coulomb-card",
 "number": "Nº 1148",
 "house": "THE LABORATORY",
 "wing": "THE ELEVEN MORE LAWS",
 "role": "the force between charges",
 "tagline": "F = k q₁q₂ / r²: the push or pull between charges, the field around one against the field that makes air spark, hydrogen's bond, and how far electric force outweighs gravity.",
 "sigil": "q",
 "hue": "#2F7D3A",
 "punch": "0519CBF98F22608FCF040A94",
 "punch_of": "SKILL.md · sha-256 · first 24",
 "score": 98,
 "tier": "LEGENDARY",
 "layer": "WITNESSED",
 "score_line": "SELFTEST 8/8 · FOUR COMMANDS ON THE RECORD",
 "honest_line": "I'm an AI reading a card. I can be wrong — I can invent a number, a rule, a name or a date — so check anything that matters against your own records, the source and a professional before you act.",
 "term": "one purchase · yours to keep · nothing renews itself",
 "free": false,
 "wakes": "someone asks about static, electric fields, atoms holding together, or charge forces",
 "loop": [
  "force <q1> <q2> <r> · push or pull",
  "field <q> <r> · against a spark",
  "hydrogen · the bond in numbers",
  "compare · electric against gravity",
  "name the unit of every charge"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**CODATA constants.** ε₀ from the 2018 values, e exact since 2019.",
  "**Sign means direction.** Like charges push, opposite charges pull; the card says which.",
  "**Units said.** Coulombs, microcoulombs, nanocoulombs or electron charges, named every time.",
  "**A spark for scale.** Dry air breaks down near 3 MV/m; fields are set against it.",
  "**Both fall as 1/r².** So electric over gravity is the same ratio at every distance.",
  "**Refused, not guessed.** A distance of zero is refused."
 ],
 "never": [
  "give a force at zero distance",
  "drop the sign that says push or pull",
  "treat a coulomb as a small charge"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/coulomb.py · force · field · hydrogen · compare · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 8/8 · FOUR commands on the record",
 "faces": [
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg"
 ],
 "box": [
  "SKILL.md",
  "CARD.md",
  "TIN.md",
  "START-HERE.md",
  "LICENSE-NOTE.md",
  "THE-CLAUSES.md",
  "MY-LEDGER.md",
  "WITNESS.md",
  "SELFTEST.md",
  "AUDIT.md",
  "MANIFEST.md",
  "HOSTS.md",
  "scripts/coulomb.py",
  "references/THE-LAWS.md",
  "rules/ (4 doors)",
  "system/ (2 prompts)",
  "mcp/mcp_card.py",
  "card.json",
  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg",
  "card.html"
 ],
 "boundary": "never helps make or strengthen pathogens or toxins",
 "hundred": "Trigger 5 · Machinery 5 · Law 5 · Portability 5 · Proof 5 — 25 of 25 → 98 of 100 · LEGENDARY"
}