Light travels at a constant speed in space because the network passes it on at a constant rate. It is a wave that moves forward because, as Huygens proposed, every point is a wave source, so the wave-front carries on but the spreads behind it tend to cancel out. It is also a processing wave, so it can restart at any point where it overloads the network, in what we call a physical event.
The same approach applied to an electron suggests that it is light trapped at a point, in a standing wave that is inherently stationary, as matter is. Light is passed on constantly until it occasionally restarts at a point, but matter constantly restarts every cycle in a physical event, so it doesn’t move like light. A photon is like a moving boat that spreads ripples behind it, while matter is like a boat with opposing engines that stays stationary, but still spreads quantum waves outwards. Hence, points of matter have a distribution just as photons do, but it spreads outwards in a sphere.
Yet we see matter move, and indeed it can move where light cannot. If a shining lamp is placed in a metal box, light can’t get out, but an electron inside an impenetrable Gaussian field can suddenly pop up outside it, like a marble in a sealed bottle suddenly appearing outside it. Physics calls this quantum tunneling, when matter doesn’t take a path to a destination but just arrives there. The electron can’t move through the field around, but it can just teleport out.
That matter can teleport then explains quantum tunneling, as a physical event can restart the electron anywhere in its distribution, which can spread beyond the apparently impenetrable field. The same rule now applies to matter and light, which is that processing on the network always spreads like ripples that diminish as they do so. Note that a photon from a lamp can’t escape from a metal box in the same way because its wave front reaches the box walls first, before its distribution has spread beyond it, so its restart always teleports it to a destination within the box.
This means that matter doesn’t move as light does. Light mostly moves by point-to-point transfer, but occasionally teleports to a random point, when a physical event occurs. In contrast, matter as a recurring overload experiences a constant series of physical events, so it only moves by teleport. Like light, it can then instantly restart at any point in its distribution, based on the strength there.
This explains how matter moves but not why the speed of light stays constant as matter moves. Why does light from a fast-moving rocket still leave it at the speed of light? According to relativity, light moves absolutely but matter moves relatively, but what does that mean?