Fast Radio Bursts as Quantum Plasma Circuit Resolution

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) present a tripartite observational crisis under the standard point-source propagation model: brightness temperatures reaching Tb ∼ 1035 Kexceeding known emission mechanism limits by two orders of magnitude; millisecond coherence preserved across hundreds of millions of light-years of turbulent intergalactic medium; and isotropic energy budgets requiring 1038–1040 J released inmilliseconds from a stellar remnant approximately 10km in diameter. These are notperipheral anomalies. They are the systematic mathematical signature of a wrongpropagation assumption applied to a phenomenon that does not propagate in theassumed manner.We present the Cosmic Circuit Framework (CCF): FRBs are circuit resolutionevents in a pre-existing, cosmologically distributed, quantum-coherent plasma filament network. The undiluted arrival of FRB signals across cosmological distancesis the central observable that demands explanation. No inverse-square-law propagation model accounts for it without invoking unverified exotic source physics. TheCCF accounts for it through the waveguide properties of Birkeland current filament systems and collective quantum coherence in strongly-coupled plasma — bothgrounded in peer-reviewed physics.This version provides full mathematical treatment of five identified requirements:(i) mathematical formalism via Bennett pinch conditions, plasma waveguide electrodynamics, and the Ishihara (2024) entanglement Hamiltonian; (ii) quantitativederivations of the brightness temperature indictment, waveguide versus free-spaceenergy budgets, and the gap tomography correlation statistic; (iii) decoherence consistency via collective plasma mode coherence lengths and the empirical decoherenceargument from observed FRB coherence itself; (iv) full electrodynamic consistencyvia Maxwell’s equations, Lorentz force filament dynamics, and magnetised plasmawave equations; and (v) relativistic causality via the quantum no-communicationtheorem and the subluminal construction of circuit infrastructure.