Quantum Realism Part I. The Observed Reality
Chapter 4. The Matter Glitch:
An Alternative to the Standard Model
Brian Whitworth, New Zealand
“That matter is primal is just a theory, and scientists who don’t question their theories are priests” (Whitworth, 2025)
The previous chapters explained space, time, and light in network terms as follows:
1. Space. Space is a null process running at a network point, so it is something that outputs nothing in our terms.
2. Time. Time is processing cycles completed, so if the network slows down, time can dilate as Einstein says.
3. Light. Light is the process of space spread over many network points to give the entire electro-magnetic spectrum as it is passed on every cycle, so nothing goes faster than it.
Space then is null processing not nothing, time is the completion of processing cycles not a dimension, and light is space spread out being passed on by a network, but can the same model explain matter? (Figure 4.1) If it can’t, the results this reverse engineering are mere curiosities.
In the last chapter, light was the first existence so the big bang exploded light not matter, but how then did matter arise? This chapter proposes that light alone created matter, but what then is matter?
QR4.1. What is Matter?
QR4.2. The Standard Model
QR4.3. Electrons and Neutrinos
QR4.4. Quarks
QR4.5. Fields Upon Fields
QR4.6. The Evolution of Matter
QR4.7. Matter Revisited
QR4.8. The Evolving Universe