Processing systems need fundamental processes as particle systems need fundamental particles. The fundamental processes of a computer are called its instruction set, so if “add one” is fundamental, it adds a hundred by adding one a hundred times. As computing evolved to include databases and networks, the instruction set got bigger to give Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC). Then it was realized that fewer instructions run faster and give less to go wrong, so Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) is better. The ultimate RISC design is one process that does everything, and the quantum network instruction set seems to be just that, based on the process:
Set the next value in a circle
This process, to set values in a circle, is now proposed to underlie space and light. It is reliable because each cycle ends where it began, ready to run again. It is bipolar, so if it runs at a point, the positive and negative values cancel to give a null result that can be space. It can also be passed on, so a moving circle can give the sine wave of light. The same process can then represent space or light, depending on whether it runs at one point (space) or is distributed over many points (light).
In quantum theory, quantum waves spread at the speed of light then collapse to restart at a point when observed. This model (2.5.4) allows that because the server that generates processing waves can also restart them as needed. One quantum process can then create the entire electro-magnetic spectrum depending on how it is distributed.
Figure 3.11 shows one core process distributed over a wavelength of points, where distributing a process runs it slower, just as dividing a workforce makes each job take longer to finish. Short wavelength light is then that process distributed less, so it runs faster at each point, while long wavelength light is the same process distributed more, so it runs slower at each point. Light then, in all its forms, is one process distributed more or less to give high or low wave frequencies on a network.
In Figure 3.11, one core process (1), is distributed (2) more or less between client points (3), to give electro-magnetic waves (4), that are passed on at the speed of light (5). The core process is a rotation that spreads as a sine wave that can have many wave lengths, where shorter wave lengths run each point faster, and longer wave lengths run each point slower.
As the process spreads, new points begin the process as those at the rear are finishing. Each network cycle, new points begin as those behind finish, so the total server demand per photon stays the same. Every photon in the electro-magnetic spectrum, whether a radio wave or an X-ray, is then one process distributed more or less, and the same process is also the null process of space, so light is, in effect, space on the move.
This fundamental process can be called a Planck process because it is the smallest activity of the quantum network, just as Planck energy is the smallest activity of our world.