To recap, Planck’s constant is the unit of energy transfer because a Planck process is the quantum unit of operation and energy is the transfer of processing. This simplest network process also causes the simplest physical entity, one photon. Physics sees Planck’s constant as a physical parameter but here it represents the smallest quantum process behind the smallest physical entity, a photon. Light is then primal, but what about matter? In the next chapter, matter came after light because light created it.
In the last chapter, Plank’s constant defined the smallest space as well as energy, as if it was smaller, atoms would be smaller, and if it was larger, quantum effects would be larger. Why then does the smallest energy also define the smallest space? Current physics makes it so but can’t explain why.
However, if the quantum network has a core process, it is the minimum transfer. If Planck’s constant represents a Planck process, there is a smallest energy because there is a smallest process. In a world based on physical things, energy could get smaller and smaller, but a world based on processing has a smallest process, here proposed to be a circular rotation (3.3.1). This circle at right angles to our space is the transverse rotation that represents light. The value of Planck’s constant then depends on the number of neighbor points in a transverse circle.
The last chapter also defined a planar circle as a circle of neighbors in a plane of our space that define how a photon can spread, given its polarization. This planar circle then defines a circumference, which in turn defines a radius that is the distance between adjacent network points. This Planck length is by definition the smallest distance of our space. The size of our space then depends on the number of neighbor points in a planar circle.
The number of transverse circle points defines the basic energy unit and the number of planar circle points defines the size of space, so if the quantum network is symmetric, both circles will have the same number of points. It follows that if Planck’s constant reflects the points in a transverse circle, it will also define the points in a planar circle. This means that the basic units of energy and space both depend on the same network feature, namely how many neighbors each point has in a circle around it. Planck’s constant then defines the limits of both space and energy because it reflects the same feature of quantum network architecture.