Gluons and Glueballs in Quantum Physics and the CRVD Framework

the CRVD (Continuous Repulsive Volumetric Dynamics) framework redefines the gluon not as an independent particle, but as a low-twist or no-twist segment of the very same continuous hadronic geodesic in the O-field. Within this framework, a glueball is likewise no longer conceived as a cluster of gluon particles, but rather as a self-confined, stress-driven bosonic excitation arising in the low-twist sectors of the hadronic structure under the concentration and reflection of O-field stress.This document sets out the definition of the gluon and the glueball within the two conceptual apparatuses of QCD and CRVD, compares them with one another, and demonstrates how CRVD can, from a descriptive, geometric, and topological standpoint, afford greater conceptual clarity in the account of hadronic internal structure.