Electrons constantly move because they are only one-dimensional matter, so photons can occupy their other two dimensions to cause movement. The hybrid is held together by quantum entanglement, a phenomenon that unifies entities that restart at the same point. However when quarks fill all the channels of a plane, and combine into protons and neutrons at an angle, the distribution is symmetric, so most matter doesn’t inherently move in any direction.
Yet quarks have free channels that photons can occupy, as higher generations show, to alter their distribution. For example, light hitting a solar sail makes it move, even though photons have no mass. If the sail matter absorbs the photons hitting it, they will bias its distribution in their direction, to make it move, just as extra photons make electrons move.
Matter then moves when it acquires photons that bias its distribution one way. It does so because it already trembles in all directions, with a probability based on the field around it, so acquiring photons that increase the density one way will make it move that way. Matter then moves not because particles push it, but because the quantum field around it changes.
That matter moves by acquiring photons also explains why mass increases as objects go faster. The added photons increase the interference between photons competing for channels that increases the processing that in this model is mass. The increase isn’t linear because interference doesn’t increase linearly with load, as networks like the Internet show. As relativity says, the mass increase tends to infinity as movement approaches the speed of light.
Note that when matter acquires photons that bias its distribution to make it move, they stay with it until something changes. We call this tendency to carry on moving inertia, assuming it is a property of some matter substance, but it may actually be a property of the field around it.
The next section considers how gravity arises when the distribution of large bodies like the sun affects the matter around them, even at great distances, and with no particles needed at all.