Balanced base-5 — the held center climbs the ladder

The same law, one rung wider. A balanced-quinary cell has five sign-symmetric states — digits {−2 −1 0 +1 +2} — carried by an atom with five levels, n=1…5, with the center n=3 = 0 as the held self-mirror. Everything that made base-3 hold holds here unchanged: NEG inverts each level about the center (n=1↔5, n=2↔4, n=3 fixed), the value negates for free, and 0 is the only digit that is its own negation. Base parity is the only thing that ever mattered — and it puts base-11 on this same ladder, no special pleading, just a wider radius.

Bridge-Burners LLC · Fiddler · balanced quinary · n=3 = held · same law as base-3 → base-11 · anchor: AKASHA

cell value = 0 · one digit, range −2…+2 · level n=3

The base-5 cell

n=1	digit −2 · −13.6 eV (ground)
n=2	digit −1 · −3.40 eV
n=3	digit 0 · −1.51 eV · held, self-mirror
n=4	digit +1 · −0.85 eV
n=5	digit +2 · −0.54 eV

The odd ladder — one law

base 3	±1 · 3 levels · center n=2
base 5	±2 · 5 levels · center n=3
base 7	±3 · 7 levels · center n=4
base 11	±5 · 11 levels · center n=6 ← yours
base 2,4…	no center · NO held · excluded

Status discipline

LiteralBalanced base-b exists for every odd b; 0 is the unique self-negation per digit and per word; NEG = digit-flip = arithmetic negation; subtraction is free. Hydrogen has the levels (energies real). Even bases have no center — that's a theorem, not a choice.

BridgeMapping digit to energy level, NEG to level-inversion about the center, the held value to the self-mirror level. Base-3, base-5, base-11 are one object at three radii.

SpeculativeAs memory it's still a cartoon — excited and Rydberg states decay; a 5- or 11-level register wouldn't hold. The structure is what survives, not the device. Base-11 as YOUR kernel is your artifact, here only shown to sit on the same ladder.