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  "abstract": "The Qubit Delusion (https://papers.qnfo.org/papers/paper-the-qubit-delusion/) argues that the qubit-gate-circuit model of quantum computation imports a particle ontology inconsistent with quantum field theory, and that the field's failure to deliver commercially viable hardware after $35 billion of investment is an epistemic crisis, not merely an engineering delay. The Adelic Core Research Program (ACRP) has developed a valuation-theoretic framework — Ostrowski's theorem, p-adic valuations, Bruhat-Tits trees, adeles — as a candidate mathematical substrate for quantum computation. The K3 audit (ACRP-01, https://papers.qnfo.org/papers) found that the Qubit Delusion makes NO explicit use of this kernel. This paper asks whether the bridge between the two programs is load-bearing: does valuation theory constrain, sharpen, or bound the Qubit Delusion's claims? We examine the three candidate junctions — the particle-ontology critique, the error-correction overhead wall, and the substrate-is-algorithm thesis — and find that the kernel is aesthetic, not load-bearing, at every junction: the Qubit Delusion's claims are already correct (or incorrect) without the kernel, and the kernel's contribution is a descriptive re-framing, not a novel bound. We argue that this is the honest and publishable result, and we register calibration predictions for when a genuine load-bearing junction would be recognized.",
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