In this model, light has a constant speed because it is passed on at a constant rate. Each point of the quantum network passes its activity to its neighbors every cycle, so every point of a light wave is a source of new waves, as Huygens proposed. Light then moves forward because the wave-front advances but the backward spread cancels out (3.1.2). As a processing wave, it can also restart at any point where it overloads the network, in what we call a physical event.
By the same model, matter is light trapped at a point in a standing wave, so while a photon moves constantly and occasionally restarts, an electron restarts constantly and doesn’t move on one dimension. Light is then like a boat with an engine that moves it forward, but matter is like a boat with engines that oppose, so it stays in one place. Yet even a stationary boat with active engines spreads ripples around itself, so matter has a quantum distribution just as light does.
According to this model then, matter shouldn’t move, but it does, and it even goes where light can’t. Light from a lamp in a metal box can’t get out but an electron inside an impenetrable Gaussian field can suddenly appear outside it, like a marble in a sealed bottle popping up outside it. Physics calls this quantum tunneling, when matter doesn’t take a path to a destination but instantly arrives there. The electron can’t travel a path through the field around it, so it must have teleported out.
How could it do this? Recall that in quantum theory, when a photon reaches a screen, its wave function instantly collapses to a point physical event. A matter point doing the same could then instantly appear anywhere in its distribution, in what we call a teleport. This explains quantum tunneling, as the electron’s distribution can spread beyond an impenetrable field. Note that a photon in a metal box can’t teleport out because its wave front reaches the walls before its distribution spreads beyond it, so it always collapses back inside the box. Quantum tunneling is then explained by quantum collapse, where an entity restarts at a point in its distribution based on its strength.
In summary, light moves by point-to-point transfer but occasionally teleports when it collapses say at a screen point, but matter as a standing wave that constantly restarts can only move by teleport. Quantum tunneling then isn’t just how matter sometimes moves, but how it always does. If light is a wave not a particle, and matter is a standing wave of light, matter can move as light sometimes does, by quantum collapse, so the same quantum rules apply to both matter and light.
This explains why light moves inherently but matter doesn’t, but not why the speed of light is constant as matter moves. Why does light from a fast-moving rocket still leave it at the speed of light? Relativity says that matter changes its space and time, but how could it do that?