Light in the Dimensional Folding Framework
In this framework, light is a low-dimensional field mode—a stabilized propagation regime that can persist and travel because it requires fewer active degrees of freedom than massive, highly differentiated structures. It is not exempt from dimensional folding. Light follows the same rules as everything else: it can be stretched, redirected, converted, and ultimately folded downward when dimensional pressure is extreme enough.
Light’s distinctive behavior comes from where it sits in the dimensional stack and how efficiently it can propagate while remaining minimally anchored. Matter tends to persist as multi-layer structure (more “dimensional thickness”), while light tends to persist as a thinner, lower-dimensional propagation mode that can move through dimensional space with less structural resistance.
Propagation as a Stable Low-Dimensional Mode
Light propagates as a coherent, self-maintaining pattern in a low-dimensional field. It remains stable over distance because its structure is compatible with the available degrees of freedom in that regime. In ordinary conditions, this makes light an efficient carrier of energy and information across spacetime.
Interaction as Dimensional Exchange and Retiling
When light interacts with matter, the key event is not “collapse upward” into higher dimensions. Instead, the interaction is a local retile-and-exchange across layers:
A localized structure (matter) can briefly stretch upward (gain temporary higher-dimensional configuration) during excitation.
It can also be pressured downward (lose dimensional freedom) as folding continues.
Light participates as the low-dimensional propagation channel through which energy and structure are redistributed during these transitions.
In this language, emission and absorption are not one-way conversions “into” higher-dimensional fields, but bidirectional local reconfigurations where matter and light trade structure through the available dimensional modes.
Emission and Frequency
Emission occurs when a system sheds energy into the photonic propagation mode. Frequency corresponds to the character of the reconfiguration:
Higher-frequency emission corresponds to a more sharply defined, tightly structured reconfiguration.
Lower-frequency emission corresponds to a more distributed, gentler reconfiguration across available modes.
Infrared and thermal radiation fit naturally here: they represent energy shedding through comparatively broad, low-frequency reorganizations under the ongoing pressure of folding.
Folding Still Applies: Light Near Extreme Compression
Light is not “foundational” in the sense of being immune to terminal regimes. Under sufficiently extreme dimensional pressure—most notably near horizons and in singularity-forming collapse—light is not guaranteed to remain as a stable propagating mode. In the limiting case, light entering a singularity is driven downward with everything else, folding toward the same lower-dimensional unity limit (approaching D1). This is an important constraint: the photonic mode is stable across wide regimes, but not across all regimes.
What This Explains Cleanly
This framing is meant to support (without replacing) established physics while offering a unified causal picture:
Why light is an unusually persistent propagation mode in ordinary regimes
Why absorption/emission are discrete and environment-dependent
Why gravitational environments affect light’s energy and trajectory
Why extreme collapse can eliminate ordinary propagation modes entirely
Photon Planet Analogy (Visualization Only)
This analogy is not a literal claim about what a photon is. It is a visualization tool for one aspect of the photonic field’s behavior.
Imagine the photonic field as a “photon planet”: a large, coherent surface-like propagation regime that other higher-dimensional structures can skim, intersect, and disturb.
Emission can be pictured as a localized structure “dipping down” to make contact with this propagation regime, releasing energy into a traveling ripple.
Infrared can be pictured as a deeper, slower “dip,” producing a lower-frequency ripple with broader structure.
Absorption can be pictured as a localized structure catching and ingesting part of that ripple, briefly reconfiguring before folding pressure resumes.
Again: this analogy helps visualize interaction depth and frequency, but the actual framework claim remains that light is a low-dimensional mode subject to the same folding rules as everything else—including terminal collapse near singularities.