RFS — Rotor–Field–Substrate research pack v1.1 (blocks RFS-217→303): emergent Dirac, Yukawa, gauge, and background-free Aharonov–Bohm physics from a single deterministic local rule, with double independent clean-room certification

A fifteen-year independent research program asking one question: how much real physics can emerge from simple, deterministic, reversible local rules on a grid of cells? This pack contains the complete state of the program (research blocks RFS-217 through RFS-294): all artifact-producing code, pre-registered pass/fail criteria, results including every recorded failure, reports, and an independent clean-room reproduction certificate. Main results: the whole substrate compresses to a single rule (everything is an arrow/conjugate pair; one local energy; exact per-term flows), whose term list is itself derived (gap, gauge invariance, and interference each eliminate candidates). On this substrate: genuine wave interference with theorems delimiting it; a forced Yukawa coupling with self-binding, two-body attraction, and quadrupole inspirals with closed energy books; Dirac's 1928 negative-energy runaway regenerated unprompted and cured by the filled sea and holes; an exact lattice Gauss law (algebraic identity, 1e-16), like-charge repulsion and 1D confinement; photons with exact dispersion and an isotropic light cone; the Lorentz force; two and three dimensions (where the substrate independently forces spinor doubling); the matter sector running on bounded integers (the rotor-router principle generalized); and the Aharonov–Bohm effect, with fringe inversion at half a flux quantum around a flux no path touches, and single-slit runs blind to it. Method: theory-first pre-registration; failures published beside successes (including the program's own retracted claims); exact benchmarks at 1e-13..1e-16; a cumulative pitfalls list (P-1..P-45); and clean-room certification: an independent session reproduced ~325 quantities bit-for-bit across the core blocks. Certification status: blocks RFS-217→282 certified; RFS-283→294 pending the next audit (see ZENODO_STATUS.md at the pack root). No claims are made of Bell-inequality violation (CHSH ≤ 2 is proven for this class within the program) or of computational advantage. Version 1.1 extends the pack through RFS-303. Highlights: the Aharonov–Bohm effect demonstrated on the substrate (fringe inversion −0.946; single-slit null), shown to survive total dequantization (identical at 64 and at 2 link notches) and full gauge dynamics with no background (−0.964, all sectors integer); the cyclotron radius law closed at 1%; a sharp pinned phase of notch-quantized links; the zero-branching window A∈(¼,½) with self-localizing breathers (1D/2D/3D); matter–gauge back-reaction (wake, transport dressing) with the AB phase surviving; and the topology/weather distinction — the vortex core's integer curl exact at every step through the strongest charged storm tested. Fourteen preregistered failures are published alongside, including a four-way falsification (RFS-299) and two failed shield designs. The entire pack (RFS-217→303) is certified by two independent adversarial clean-room reproductions (Phase 1: 0/260 key mismatches; Phase 2: 0/61, all 14 must-fail entries reproduced as failures); both audit reports, their findings, and the committed responses ship inside the pack. Includes the part-II plain-language paper, The Storm and the Integer. Code license: MIT. Documents and data: CC-BY 4.0. Project site: https://sites.google.com/site/projectsced