Charge in thirds

In RSI, charge is the net twist of a knot's chiral wake: right-handed is positive, left-handed is negative. Opposite twists mesh like gears and attract. Matching twists clash and repel.

Three loops spinning about three perpendicular axes, seen along the braid's shared axis, appear exactly 120 degrees apart. The braid therefore divides a full turn of its wake into three steps, and one step is the smallest twist the wake can carry: one third of a charge. The electron's wake is a full left-handed turn, three thirds, so its charge is −1.

Within a braid, an up loop carries two right-handed thirds (+⅔) and a down loop carries one left-handed third (−⅓). The proton is two up loops and one down, so its charge is +⅔ + ⅔ − ⅓ = +1. Three phases spaced 120 degrees apart sum to zero, the same principle that lets three-phase electric power run with no current in its neutral wire. This is why three quarks close into one balanced whole.

Because the electron and the proton count their charge in thirds of the same twist in the same medium, their charges are exactly equal and opposite. Experiment confirms this to better than one part in 10²¹, and standard physics has no structural reason for it. Counting charge as twists of ±⅓ on three braided strands was proposed as a mathematical model by Sundance Bilson-Thompson in 2005, following Haim Harari and Michael Shupe in 1979. RSI supplies the physical medium in which the twist exists.