Sci - The Containment Ratio: Vacuum Energy, Closure Shells, and the Pre-Geometric Interpretation of the Cosmological Constant

Sci - The Containment Ratio: Vacuum Energy, Closure Shells, and the Pre-Geometric Interpretation of the Cosmological Constant Armstrong Knight — intent-tensor-theory.com — 2026 The cosmological constant problem — the 10¹²⁰⁻¹²³ discrepancy between quantum field theory's vacuum energy prediction and the measured cosmological constant — is conventionally treated as a fine-tuning or cancellation problem. This paper proposes a fundamentally different interpretation: nothing cancels. The Collapse Tension Substrate (CTS) operates at full Planck intensity everywhere and always. The cosmological constant is the boundary bleed rate of the cosmic closure shell — the fraction of CTS intensity escaping the pre-geometric…