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 "edition": "E1",
 "cut": "2026-10-09",
 "name": "THE FINE-STRUCTURE CARD",
 "handle": "fine-structure-card",
 "number": "Nº 1125",
 "house": "THE LABORATORY",
 "wing": "THE SEVEN LAWS",
 "role": "how strongly light and matter hold",
 "tagline": "α = e²/4πε₀ħc ≈ 1/137.036, a pure number: worked from the constants, and the simple atom it shapes — its levels, its lines, its orbit sizes and the fine-structure split.",
 "sigil": "α",
 "hue": "#2F7D3A",
 "punch": "4E54D6966B4F62FE63C519F9",
 "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 1/137, the strength of electromagnetism, or hydrogen's levels",
 "loop": [
  "alpha · the number, from the constants",
  "levels · the energy ladder",
  "bohr · orbit sizes and speeds",
  "split <n> · the fine structure",
  "say what the simple model leaves out"
 ],
 "laws": [
  "**A pure number.** α has no units, so every system of measures gets the same value: 0.0072973525693.",
  "**Not exactly 1/137.** 1/α = 137.035999…; the card never rounds it to the whole number.",
  "**One electron only.** Hydrogen, He⁺ and Li²⁺; atoms with more electrons need more than this formula.",
  "**The reduced mass.** The nucleus moves too; the card includes it, which is why hydrogen's ground state is −13.598 eV and not −13.606.",
  "**Orbits are a model.** The radii are the most likely distances, not tracks an electron is seen to follow.",
  "**The split is the name.** Levels with the same n split by about α² of their energy: the fine structure."
 ],
 "never": [
  "claim α is exactly 1/137",
  "give levels for atoms of many electrons",
  "treat the orbits as paths seen"
 ],
 "machine": "scripts/alpha.py · alpha · levels · bohr · split · selftest",
 "proof": "selftest 8/8 · FOUR commands on the record",
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  "CARD.md",
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  "AUDIT.md",
  "MANIFEST.md",
  "HOSTS.md",
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  "references/THE-LAWS.md",
  "rules/ (4 doors)",
  "system/ (2 prompts)",
  "mcp/mcp_card.py",
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  "card.svg",
  "card-machine.svg",
  "card.html"
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 "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"
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