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  "abstract": "A single mathematical structure — the p-adic ultrametric topology — appears in apparently unrelated domains: quantum error correction (stabilizer codes), protein folding (energy landscapes), neural coding (population activity clustering), financial markets (hierarchical correlation), climate dynamics (stratified Earth systems), evolutionary biology (phylogenetic trees), and six additional fields. In each domain, the ultrametric structure was discovered independently, often decades apart, with different terminology and different mathematical formalisms. This paper provides a unified consilience atlas: a cross-domain lexicon mapping the terms and concepts across 12 domains, a structural translation showing the invariant mathematical core, and a synthesis of what this invariance implies — namely, that ultrametric topology is a universal structure of hierarchically organized complex systems, not a domain-specific curiosity. Each domain section includes a mini-forecast (when will the ultrametric toolkit become standard in that domain?) and a mini-backcast (what if the ultrametric structure had been recognized at the field's founding?). [...]",
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