THE PHYSICAL ADMISSIBILITY OF THE ELECTRON AS AN ENFORCING MECHANISM

This paper examines whether the electron qualifies as a physically enforcing mechanism under a strict enforcement-based admissibility criterion. Using elimination by necessity, the analysis tests whether the electron directly participates in force, energy exchange, momentum transfer, inertia, and reciprocal back-reaction in spacetime. When the electron is removed while all other enforcing mechanisms are retained, physical evolution changes decisively, demonstrating that the electron is a necessary enforcer of physical change. The paper establishes the electron as physically real under enforcement-based realism, in contrast to non-enforcing descriptive constructs.