technical blueprint · drawing no. DK-02
BREAKDOWN TREE — WHAT KNOCKS OUT OF WHAT, 3 DEEP
two cascades · charges verified in Node
composition (spatial) + decay (down generations)
both terminate at a stable FLOOR
quark lepton composite / nucleon W boson (the converter) stable floor

A · Composition — what's physically inside (3 levels to the quark floor)

Crack it open. Each level reveals what the thing is made of. Terminates at quarks — they don't break further.

LVL 0 LVL 1 LVL 2 LVL 3 atom nucleus electron e⁻ FUNDAMENTAL — a leaf p⁺ proton uud (+1) n⁰ neutron udd (0) u u d quarks + gluons u d d quarks + gluons ◄ FLOOR quarks don't break
3 levels: atom → nucleon → quark. The quark is the bottom — nothing knocks out of it.

B · Decay — what it turns INTO (knocking down the generations)

Let it fall. Unstable heavy particles convert to lighter ones, shedding a W boson each step, until they hit the lightest = stable. This is your depth-3: gen III → II → I.

GEN III GEN II GEN I STABLE τ⁻ tau · 1.78 GeV emits W⁻ + neutrinos W μ⁻ muon · 106 MeV emits W⁻ + neutrinos W e⁻ electron · 0.511 MeV ◄ FLOOR — lightest, nothing to fall to quark version (beta decay): d → u + W⁻, then W⁻ → e⁻ + ν̄ · charge 0 → 0 ✓
3 levels: gen III → gen II → gen I. The electron is the bottom — nothing lighter to become.
⟐ The depth-3 you were riffing toward
Both cascades are genuinely 3 deep and both bottom out at a floor — that's the real structure, not a forced pattern. Composition goes atom → nucleon → quark (3 levels, what's inside, stops because quarks are fundamental). Decay goes gen III → gen II → gen I (3 levels, what it becomes, stops because gen-1 is the lightest — nothing to fall to). The W boson is the converter — it's what carries a particle down a generation, emitted at every step. Beta decay is the famous one: a neutron's down-quark flips to up, spits a W⁻, and the W⁻ becomes the electron + antineutrino — verified charge-balanced, 0 → 0. So "what knocks out of what, 3 deep" has a real answer: two different 3-deep cascades, both ending where the witness ends — the stable floor.