Quantum Realism Part I. The Observed Reality
Chapter 4. The Matter Glitch:
An Alternative to the Standard Model
Brian Whitworth, New Zealand
“That everything came from matter is just a theory, and scientists who don’t question their theories are priests” (Whitworth, 2025)Download Whole Chapter
The previous chapters explained space, time, and light in network terms as follows:
1. Space. Space is a null process running on the network, 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 same process as space, but spread over many network points to give the entire electro-magnetic spectrum. It is passed on every cycle, so nothing goes faster than it.

Space then is null processing not nothing, time is cycles completed not a dimension, and light is space distributed on a network that passes it on, but if this approach (Figure 4.1) doesn’t also explain matter, it fails as a model of the physical world. The last chapter concluded that the big bang exploded to create light not matter, but what actually 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