The Light of Existence

TL;DR

This paper proposes an informational model of light as a processing wave of entity programs, explaining quantum phenomena and the wave-particle duality through a computational perspective of physical reality.

Contribution

It introduces a novel processing-based framework for understanding light and quantum phenomena, linking physical properties to computational processes.

Findings

Light properties derived from processing principles

Quantum phenomena explained as processing behaviors

Physical reality viewed as a virtual output of quantum processing

Abstract

This chapter derives the properties of light from the properties of processing, including its ability to be both a wave and a particle, to respond to objects it doesn't physically touch, to take all paths to a destination, to choose a route after it arrives, and to spin both ways at once as it moves. Here a photon is an entity program spreading as a processing wave of instances. It becomes a "particle" if any part of it overloads the grid network that runs it, causing the photon program to reboot and restart at a new node. The "collapse of the wave function" is how quantum processing creates what we call a physical photon. This informational approach gives insights into issues like the law of least action, entanglement, superposition, counterfactuals, the holographic principle and the measurement problem. The conceptual cost is that physical reality is a quantum processing output, i.e. virtual.