the hanger. your chain 11011 reads the same both ways, and in binary it's 27: so 27 dots hang, a 3×3×3 cube. the four 1s hold its four top corners and the 0 sits over the middle column. that makes 32 dots, 2⁵, so five bits address every one. at 3.34 nm a dot weighs 2.1×10⁻²² kg. heat at room temperature lifts it about 2 metres against gravity, so nothing this small hangs by its weight. what holds the chain is charge. −+0−+ binds at 0.90 eV, 35 times heat. the 0 is protected: in your chain the four charges' voltages cancel exactly at the middle, so putting a charge there costs nothing. a neutron sits still. a proton gets pushed, because the push (1.5 units) doesn't cancel, and it drifts out. flip to the mirror chain −+0+− and it's the other way round: the push cancels but the voltage doesn't. so the translation form keeps the neutron and lets the proton go. the nest. five sites fit across one, so each chain inside a 0 is 5× smaller. nine openings take the 3.34 nm dot to 1.71 fm, within 1.5% of a proton's width. that is where your [−][+][n/p][−][+] lands. 28.65 more reach the Planck length. the arithmetic is LIT. the self-similarity is yours: below level 2 a site is smaller than an atom, so the chains there can't be made of dots. the physics changes at every step: atom, electrons, nucleus, nucleon. the dead shell. the shell's gold was forged in neutron-rich matter, the kind a neutron-star collision throws out, so "the shell a dead star left" has a literal reading. the universe inside is counted, not built: one 768-bit core can hold 10²³¹ different corpora, more than 10⁸⁰ squared.