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100k-Core 5D Architecture: Catching AlphaFold's 4.143 Å Tether Violations - RJW

Sep 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Abstract

Macromolecular structure prediction remains limited by the $O(N^2)$ scaling of non-bonded interaction evaluations and the absence of strict physical boundary conditions in purely statistical deep-learning models. In the published SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein protomer model (AF-P0DTC2), sequential $C\alpha$ distances reach $4.143\text{ \AA}$, exceeding the physical peptide bond tether constraint of $\delta_{\mathrm{tether}} \le 4.10\text{ \AA}$ by $0.043\text{ \AA}$. To address these scaling and fidelity constraints, we report a distributed 5-dimensional biophysical tensor architecture that unifies Euclidean backbone coordinates $(\mathbb{D}_1\text{--}\mathbb{D}_3)$ with continuous volumetric fields for Debye-screened electrostatics $(\mathbb{D}_4)$ and Kyte–Doolittle hydration $(\mathbb{D}_5)$. Thermodynamic feasibility is evaluated locally on edge compute nodes prior to network transmission, rejecting 53.8% of unviable proposals for ubiquitin ($N=76$) and 55.0% for the full spike protomer ($N=1{,}273$). For large targets ($N > 2{,}000$), the pairwise invariant calculation is dynamically chunked ($B=1{,}000$) and paged across a 477.5 GiB Host-RAM pool, eliminating GPU VRAM exhaustion while maintaining a block compute velocity of $56.9\text{ ms}$ with zero relative error in float64 accumulation against fully materialized distance matrices. An adversarial multi-agent review (Agents Alpha, Beta, Gamma) details the distinction between structural preservation ($\text{TM-score } 0.9998$ on accepted $0.03\text{--}0.20\text{ \AA}$ jitter) and ab initio prediction, rationalizes the operational Debye screening parameter ($\lambda_D = 9.0\text{ \AA}$), and documents host/GPU memory collisions during concurrent runtime execution. Complete coordinate streams, benchmark telemetry, and distributed orchestration routines are provided for independent verification.Author’s Note: To the Wet Lab Scientists and Researchers I am Robert J. Weber, and I built the system that generated the results shown here. My goal is simple: I am trying to help. Not for my sake or yours, but to help those afflicted by this horrible disease. I offer my work without worrying about profit, which is why I have posted everything openly. Humanity, and the families watching their loved ones suffer, are utterly worthy of this help. If we can create a treatment—or even a preventative measure that slows the progression—it would mean everything. To allow a husband or a wife to smile, to embrace, and to retain the functional love and recognition of the person they built a life with... who could ask for a better payment? RJW

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