Appendix H — The Horizon Unit System
One seam constant c₃ = 1/(8π) as the universal horizon thermal code
A change of bookkeeping, not new gravitational physics: if gravity is the geometry-channel readout of the seam, then all horizons read the same boundary constant c₃ = 1/(8π). This note collects the readouts — Hawking, de Sitter and Unruh temperature, black-hole thermodynamics, the Page time, scrambling, the Nariai bound, v_GW = c and cosmic birefringence — in seam units, with two genuine compiler fingerprints (1920 = |W(D₅)|, |μ₄| = 4).
- ›The seam constant c₃ = 1/(8π) from P1, read as the horizon normaliser.
- ›All horizon temperatures share one factor, 1/(2π) = 4c₃; black-hole, de Sitter and Unruh share one thermal grammar.
- ›Two genuine compiler fingerprints: 1920 = |W(D₅)| in the Hawking power, and |μ₄| = 4 in the scrambling time.
- ›The boundary transport sub-leading eigenvalue λ₂ = (2/3)⁶ governs both the SM flavor gap and the horizon Page recovery.
- ›Nothing here is new gravitational physics — it is a reframe that exposes shared structure. The search ansätze are explicitly [A], not results.
- ›As a reframe it cannot be falsified by new gravity; the compiler fingerprints (1920, |μ₄|) and the shared λ₂ fail only if the underlying lattice numbers are wrong.
Key formulas
- Universal factorOne seam constant behind every horizon temperature. [I]
- Hawking fingerprintCompiler Weyl-group order in the Hawking power. [I]
- Shared transportSame eigenvalue fixes flavor gap and Page recovery. [I]
The universal horizon temperature factor
The factor that appears in every horizon temperature is the seam constant itself. Black holes, de Sitter and Unruh therefore share one thermal grammar.
Schwarzschild thermodynamics in four c₃-lines
Temperature, entropy, power and lifetime all read off c₃, with the Hawking power denominator carrying the compiler fingerprint 1920 = |W(D₅)| (the Weyl group order of D₅).
Page time and scrambling
The Page time is a fixed fraction of the evaporation time, and the scrambling time carries the second fingerprint |μ₄| = 4. The Page-recovery kernel decays at the same λ₂ = (2/3)⁶ that sets the SM flavor gap.
De Sitter, Nariai and cosmic birefringence
The de Sitter entropy and the cosmic-birefringence angle are the same seam readouts; v_GW = c follows with no measurable dispersion.