Light has a constant speed in this model because the quantum network passes it on every cycle. Every point of a light wave is a new wave source, as Huygens proposed, so it moves forward because its wave-front advances but its backward spread cancels out (3.1.2). It is also a processing wave that can restart at any point where it overloads the network, in a physical event.
Light then moves constantly and occasionally restarts, but if matter is a standing wave that is always restarting, it shouldn’t move at all. Light is like a boat with one engine that moves it forward, while matter is like a boat with two engines that oppose, to keep it in one place. Yet both have active engines that spread ripples, so matter has a quantum distribution just as light does.
Matter as a standing wave shouldn’t move, yet it can go where light can’t. Light from a lamp in a box can’t escape but an electron in 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 an electron just appears at a point without taking a path there, in what is in effect a teleport.
How is this possible? Particles can’t teleport, but quantum theory lets an electron collapse and restart at any point in its distribution, just as photon does when it hits a screen. This collapse occurs instantly and ignores any obstacles, so if an electron’s distribution extends beyond the Gaussian field, it just arrives there. Note that light in a box can’t do this because its wave front reaches the walls as its distribution does, so it always teleports back into the box. Quantum collapse then explains quantum tunneling as the electron restarting at a point in its distribution.
To sum up, light is a wave that moves by point-to-point transfer and sometimes teleports, but matter is a standing wave that only moves by teleport. Quantum tunneling then isn’t just how matter sometimes moves, but how it always does. Matter moves when it collapses and restarts at another point in its distribution, as light only does when it hits a screen in a physical event, so the same quantum rules apply.
In general, matter moves differently from light, but why then doesn’t its movement affect the speed of light? The answer lies in what Einstein didn’t explain, which is how space and time change when matter moves.