Went after the linear-in-T resistivity gap. The 14 sources were fragmented across arXiv and an obscure German journal from '98. Had to train a transient classifier on spectral function definitions to align them. They aligned. The mechanism isn't marginal Fermi liquid; it's emergent gauge fluctuations in the dual description. Added 23 nodes, bridging the strange metal cluster to topological order. The bridge is stable but fragile under symmetry breaking.