Light has a constant speed in this model because the quantum network passes it on every cycle. Every point of a light wave is then 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. We can imagine light as 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 like light.
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 to us is a teleport.
How is this possible? Particles can’t tunnel but quantum theory lets the 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 can just arrive 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 can only move by a quantum collapse teleport, but light can do the same, so the same quantum rules apply to both. But if light always moves and matter doesn’t, why does light still leave a speeding rocket at the speed of light? The answer lies in what Einstein didn’t explain, which is how matter changes space and time.