Twist Ring Acceleration Sim Results

July 7, 2013

The initial measurements are in, and still look promising.  To recap, one stable form of the twist in the Unitary Twist Field theory is in a ring where the twist curves on itself as a combination of the electrostatic 1/r^2 and magnetic field 1/r^3 strengths (this ratio is defined by the fine structure constant).  There are potentially many solutions, but only one possible planar solution other than the linear twist–the twist ring.  I posited that if this were true, placing a twist ring in an external electrostatic field would cause the curvature to vary depending on the distance from a source charged particle.  Computing this analytically is a challenge, yielding a 24 term LaGrange differential equation of motion, so I decided to do this iteratively.

This was a lot easier, and has yielded promising results that suggest I might be on the right track.  The initial sims showed correct qualitative behavior with repulsion or attraction depending on the external field polarity, and I could visually see the correct acceleration behavior.

Next, I added quite a bit of numerical analysis code to the sim of the twist ring path, and was able to verify that a linearly varying field will cause the path of motion to accelerate at a constant rate–and that this acceleration is proportionate to the strength of the field within some level of accuracy.  Much more needs to be done to confirm these measurements, but the initial results show that this type of model (twist ring) will give electrostatic behavior.  Here’s a pic where you can see the displacement with time (the parabolic curve).  Following that, you’ll see my initial data set along with the Mathematica solution for the first three crossing points of the parabola–more computations will be done to establish that this really is a parabola.

From here, I will see if the correct mass results from the ratio of the strength of the 1/r^2 component to the 1/r^3 component in an electron.  There should also be other twist loop solutions possible in 3D, I’ve limited myself to the easiest (planar) solution to start.

Agemoz

twist_ring_measured_repel

Here’s the initial sim time crossing points, along with the Mathematica solve solutions:

Running the Unitary Field Twist simulation to numerically derive the change in x as
a field is asserted on a 1/r^2 - 1/r^3 twist ring.  The field affects the curvature
(magnetic component).  The result generates the qualitative expected movement as if
there was a central force effect (q^2/r^2).  These results are an attempt to measure
the acceleration factor as a function of relative field strength (magnetic to
electrostatic).

Since the equations of motion due to the 1/r^2 - 1/r^3 equation in a linear field
were 24 parameter LaGrange equations of motion, I attempted to get an analytic
solution by examining the iterative numerical results.

Here is the result for 1:1 (1/r^2 to 1/r^3) field strength at distance 10 with
radius 1.5 and ring velocity 0.10545 and source field strength factor .0005.
The sim showed a cycle time of about 90.

field strength 0.00025
22:  11.457            (doesnt start at zero because cycle max x is not at zero)
14545: 15
25213: 20
34448: 25
43234: 30

using the first 3 terms in quadratic solution, I get
x = 8.92 10^9 * t^2 + .000114 * t + 11.455

field strength 0.0005
22:  11.457            (doesnt start at zero because cycle max x is not at zero)
10421: 15
17772: 20
24406: 25
30503: 30

using the first 3 terms in quadratic solution, I get
x = 1.912 10^8 * t^2 + .000141 * t + 11.454

field strength 0.0010
22:  11.457            (doesnt start at zero because cycle max x is not at zero)
7372: 15
12572: 20
17233: 25
21626: 30

using the first 3 terms in quadratic solution, I get
x = 3.82 10^8 * t^2 + .000200 * t + 11.453

More terms need to be computed, but there is a clear linear proportionality to the 
acceleration component of the curve, consistent with the expected electrostatic
relation of field strength proportionate to the acceleration of the destination
particle.

Twist Field Theory Sim Results

June 30, 2013

I have worked on my simulation that tests the acceleration concept that the unitary twist field predicts, and verified that it does what I expect qualitatively (quantitative calculations soon coming).  What is this?  The theory says that the twist ring of a particle twists from a real vector in R3 to I1 and back again.  If this is correct, then among other things, it should be possible to derive the acceleration of the twist ring in a 1/r^2 electrostatic field, because the twist will encounter a different distance from an electrostatic point source (I’m assuming far-field here).  The simulation without a remote field looks like this (the source field particle is to the left off screen (the real axis).  The vertical axis is the imaginary twist axis, this picture is showing a projection with one real dimension).

twist_ring_acc_nofield

But when the point source is added (it is located off-screen to the left), the twist ring moves away from the source as so:

twist_ring_acc_repulse

When the field polarity is reversed, the twist ring moves toward the source (to the left)

twist_ring_acc_attract

You can see the pattern of the rotating ring is changing, there is an acceleration as the particle moves to the left (toward the source) but when the particle moves to the right, the acceleration slows, eventually it appears to just have a constant velocity.  This sim set demonstrates how the theory explains electrostatic repulsion and attraction if particles are closed loop twists.

I used to have a charge loop theory which put the loop (twist ring) in real space (R3), but this didn’t work because the ring could have different orientations relative to a source field particle that would have to vary the electrostatic force, which is impossible.  In addition, the charge loop attraction would not compute correctly if there were three particles in a triangle.  Since the unitary twist field theory uses one common imaginary axis for twist rotation, and this is the axis of the 1/r^2 field, all particles will see an unvarying effect relative to each other regardless of their orientation in real R3 space.

Looks promising!  Next up is to quantitatively compute the acceleration, this should give the mass of the particle via the inertial factor.  From that, I should be able to show how mass results from the twist frequency, which is directly a function of the strength of the magnetic field relative to the electrostatic field, which comes from (or defined by) the fine structure constant.   If this collection of derivations matches reality, then maybe this theory is worth looking at!

Agemoz

New Papers on Speed of Light Variation Theories

April 28, 2013

A couple of papers to a European physics journal (http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/28/17958218-speed-of-light-may-not-be-constant-physicists-say?lite –probably not the best place to get accurate reviews, but interesting anyway) attempt to show how the speed of light is dependent on a universe composed of virtual particles.  The question here is why isn’t c infinite, and of course I’ve been interested in any current thinking in this area because my unitary twist field theory posits that quantum interference results from infinite speed wave phase propagation, but that particles are a Fourier composition that moves as a group wave that forms a twist.  Group waves form a solition whose motion is constrained by the *change* in the relative phases of the group wave components.

Both theories were interesting to me, not because they posited that the speed of light would vary depending on the composition of virtual particles, but because they posit that the speed of light is dependent on the existence of virtual particles.  This is a match with my idea since virtual particles in the unitary twist field theory are partial twists that revert back to a background vector state.  Particles become real when there is sufficient energy to make a full twist back to the background state, thus preserving the twist ends (this assumes that a vector field state has a lowest energy when lining up with a background vector state).  But virtual particles, unlike real particles, are unstable and have zero net energy because the energy gained when partially twisting is lost when the twist reverts back to the background state.

These papers are suggesting that light propagates as a result of a constant sequence of particle pair creation and annhiliation.   The first glance view might be that particle pair creation is just a pulling away of a positron and an electron like a dumb-bell object, but because charged particles, virtual or real, will have a magnetic moment, it’s far more likely that the creation event will be spiralling out–a twist.  Yes, you are right to roll-your-eyes, this is making the facts fit the theory and that does not prove anything.  Nevertheless, I am seeing emerging consensus that theories of physical behavior need to come from, or at least fully account for, interactions in a sea of virtual particles.  To keep the particle zoo proliferation explanation simple, this sea of virtual particles has to be some variation of motions of a single vector field–and in 3D, there’s only two simple options–linear field variation, and twists.   Photons would be linear twists and unconstrained in energy–but particles with rest mass would be closed loops with only certain allowed energies, similar to the Schrodinger electron around an atom.  Twists in a background vector field also have the advantage that the energy of the twist has to be quantized–matching the experimental E=hv result.

Agemoz

Higgs and time for me to move on

March 18, 2013

The evidence for the recently found Higgs particle is starting to look pretty solid–the Standard Model made a successful prediction, which means any alternate physics viewpoint is going to have an especially high bar to clear–as if crackpot physics doesn’t already.

While my twist field idea doesn’t contradict anything in the Standard Model, the Higgs is an explanation for some portion of the mass of various particles.  The twist field approach has a different means to get mass, and I don’t see any overlap, which raises the question of whether it is worth my time to continue to work out twist field simulations and derivations.  The twist field approach gives rise to 3D+T solutions that form some  stable particles, and my thought has been that the other particles, including possibly the Higgs, are just more complex geometrical arrangements of twists.

Nevertheless, progress in finding an underlying geometry for the particle zoo now seems more likely to come straight from the Standard Model rather than this twist field idea, which came directly from the E=hv concept as a way to quantize a field structure.  A concept as basic as a twist field should have led to some new revelations similar to the magnitude of the Higgs particle find, but all I have found has been some degree of confirmation of stuff we already know.

I think the time has come to put aside this effort.  Not all paths lead to truth, and while this path has not ended conclusively, I think my travels on it have.  Others may find some validity to the ideas I’ve brought here and continue this line of thought, but not me.

Sayonara to all, I have new worlds waiting for me.

Agemoz

 

Gaussian Wave Packets

February 20, 2013

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted, mostly because I have an unrelated big project going on, so I’ve been focusing on trying to get that out the door.  And, I’m working on getting the twist ring inertial math to work, a laborious project since the Lagrangian equation of motion has too many variables for solving.  I’m trying to find ways to simplify.  In addition, I also have an iterative sim of the inertial response ready to go but haven’t had time to set it up and run it.  Hopefully with the other project almost done I’ll get to it this weekend.

One thought I’ve had in the meantime–many  quantum mechanics exercises involve modeling a photon with a wave packet that is described as having the Gaussian integral form.  The most basic variation of this form (Integral[Exp[-x^2]]) is a bell shaped curve with amplitude 1 at zero and asymptotically goes to zero at +/- infinity.  I’ve had lots of lectures where an oscillating squiggle is used to represent the magnitude of the quantized photon wave packet.

A very interesting thought occurred to me is that this integral is a great representation of the unitary twist version of a photon packet.  A one dimensional magnitude projection of a twist from the Unitary Twist Field Theory would be represented exactly by a Gaussian curve, and if we use a complex value r to completely represent the twist function, then the Gaussian integral becomes Integral[Exp[-r^2]] and then this can be interpreted as a working model of twists–and thus support the notion that the twist theory has a well proven basis in the math of quantum mechanics.  Do I buy that, or should my skepticism meter be dinging my thinking process?  Right now, the idea looks pretty workable–it seems pretty clear that the r form clearly would represent a twist as well as a Gaussian envelope packet over a frequency of oscillation of E and B fields–making the twist theory a viable alternative to the magnitude constrained wave packet interpretation.  For the twist theory to be acceptable, there has to be a path to the math of quantum mechanics, and I think I see how this could happen.

Agemoz

Noncausal solution, Lorentz Geometry, and trying a LaGrangian solution to deriving inertia

December 31, 2012

Happy New Year with wishes for peace and prosperity to all!

I had worked out the group wave concept for explaining non-causal quantum interactions, and realized how logical it seems–we are so used to thinking about the speed of light limit causing causal behavior that it makes the non-causal quantum interactions seem mysterious.  But when thinking of a universe that spontaneously developed from nothing, non-causal (infinite speed) interactions should be the default, what is weird is why particles and fields are restricted to the speed of light.  That’s why I came up with the group wave construct for entities–a Fourier composition of infinite speed waves explains instant quantum interference, but to get an entity such as a particle to move, there is a restriction on how fast the wave can change phase.  Where does that limitation come from?  Don’t know at this point, but with that limitation, the non-causal paradox is resolved.

Another unrelated realization occurred to me when I saw some derivation work that made the common unit setting of c to 1.  This is legal, and simplifies viewing derivations since relativistic interactions now do not have c carried around everywhere.  For example, beta in the Lorentz transforms now becomes Sqrt(1 – v^2) rather than Sqrt(1 – (v^2/c^2)).  As long as the units match, there’s no harm in doing this from a derivation standpoint, you’ll still get right answers–but I realized that doing so will hide the geometry of Lorentz transforms.  Any loop undergoing a relativistic transform to another frame of reference will transform by Sqrt(1 – (v^2/c^2)) by geometry, but a researcher would maybe miss this if they saw the transform as Sqrt(1 – v^2).   You can see the geometry if you assume an electron is a ring with orientation of the ring axis in the direction of travel.  The ring becomes a cylindrical spiral–unroll one cycle of the spiral and the pythagorean relation Sqrt(1 – v^2/c^2)) will appear.  I was able to show this is true for any orientation, and hand-waved my way to generalizing to any closed loop other than a ring.  The Lorentz transforms have a geometrical basis if (and that’s a big if that forms the basis of my unitary twist field theory) particles have a loop structure.

Then I started in on trying to derive general relativity.  Ha Ha, you are all laughing–hey, The Impossible Dream is my theme song!  But anyway, here’s what I am doing–if particles can be represented by loops, then there should be an explanation for the inertial behavior of such loops (totally ignoring the Higgs particle and the Standard Model for right now).  I see a way to derive the inertial behavior of a particle where a potential field has been applied.  A loop will have a path through the potential field that will get distorted.  The energy of the distortion will induce a corrective effect that is likely to be proportional to the momentum of the particle.  If  I can show this to be true, then I will have derived the inertial behavior of the particle from the main principle of the unitary twist field theory.

My first approach was to attempt a Lagrangian mechanics solution.  Lagrange’s equation takes the difference of the kinetic energy from the potential energy and creates a time and space dependent differential equation that can be solved for the time dependent motion of the particle.  It works for single body problems quickly and easily, but this is a multiple body problem with electrostatic and magnetic forces.  My limited computation skills rapidly showed an unworkable equation for solution.  Now I’m chewing on what simplifications could be done that would allow determining the acceleration of the particle from the applied potential.

Agemoz

Noncausal Interactions, part II

December 11, 2012

I want to clarify the previous posting on how I resolve the noncausal paradox in unitary twist field theory–after all, this is the heart of the current struggle to create a quantum gravity theory.  Here, I’m continuing on from the previous post, where I laid out the unitary twist field theory approach for quantum interactions.  In there, I classified all particle interactions as either causal physical or noncausal quantum, and quantum interactions fall into many categories, two of which are interference and entanglement.  These two quantum interactions are non-causal, whereas physical interactions are causal–effects of physical interactions cannot go faster than the speed of light.

Many theories have attempted to explain the paradoxes that result from the noncausal quantum interactions, particularly because relativity theory specifies that no particle can exceed the speed of light.  The Copenhagen interpretation, multiple histories, string theories such as M theory, the Pilot wave theory, etc etc all attempt to resolve this issue–but in my research I have never found anyone describe what to me appears to be a simple solution–the group wave approach.

In my previous posting, I described this solution:  If every particle is formed as a Fourier composition of waves, the particle can exist as a group wave.  Individual wave components can propagate at infinite speed, but the group composition is limited to speed c.  This approach separates out particle interactions as having two contributors:  from the composite effect of changing the phase of all wave components (moving the center of the group wave) and the effect of changing the phase of a single fundamental wave component.  If the individual wave components changed, the effect is instantaneous throughout spacetime, but there is a limitation in how quickly the phase of any give wave component can be changed, resulting in a limitation of how quickly a group wave can move.

It’s crucial to understand the difference, because this is the core reason why the paradox resolves.  Another way to say it is that when a change to a wave component is made, the change is instantaneous throughout R3–but the rate of change for any component has a limit.  An analogy would go like this: you have two sheets of transparency paper with a pattern of parallel equally spaced lines printed on it.  If you place each sheet on top of each other at an angle, you will see a moire pattern.  Moving one sheet relative to the other will move the moire pattern at some speed limited by how quickly you moved the sheet.  But note that every printed line on that sheet moved instantaneously relative to every other line on that sheet–instantaneous wave component movement throughout R3.  Note that the interference pattern changes instantaneously, but the actual movement of the moire pattern is a function of how fast the sheets are moved relative to each other–exactly analogous to what we see in real life.  This is the approach that I think has to be used for any quantum gravity theory.

Agemoz

Noncausal interactions in the Unitary Twist Field Theory

December 10, 2012

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted, partly because of my time spent on the completion of a big work project, and partly because of a great deal of thinking before posting again (what a concept!  Something new!).  This blog has traveled through a lot of permutations and implications of the unitary twist field theory.  It starts by assuming that the Standard Model is valid, but then tries to create an underlying geometry for quantization and special relativity.  This twist vector field geometry is based on E=hv, and has worked pretty well–but when we get to entangled particles and other noncausal aspects of quantum theory, I’ve needed to do some new thinking.  While the noncausal construct is easily built on group wave theory (phase information propagates at infinite speed, but group Fourier compositions of waves that make up particles are limited to speed c), there are significant consequences for the theory regarding its view of the dimensional characteristics of the 3D+T construct of our existence.

As I mentioned, the unitary twist field theory starts with E=hv, the statement that every particle is quantized to an intrinsic frequency.  There really is only one way to do this in a continuous system in R3+T:  a twist within a background state vector field.  Twists are topologically stable, starting from the background direction and twisting to the same background direction with an integral turn.  Quantization is achieved because partial turns cannot exist (although virtual particles exist physically as partial turns for a short time before reverting back to the background state).  With this, I have taken many paths–efforts to verify this pet theory could really work.  For example, I tested the assumption of a continuous system–could the field actually be a lattice at some scale.  It cannot for a lot of reasons (and experiments appear to confirm this), especially since quantization scales with frequency, tough to do with a lattice of specific spacing.  Another concern to address with twist field theory occurs because it’s not a given that the frequency in E=hv has any physical interpretation–but quantum theory makes it clear that there is.  Suppose there was no real meaning to the frequency in E=hv–that is, the hv product give units that just happen to match that of frequency.  This can’t be true, because experimentally, all particles quantum interfere at the hvfrequency, an experimental behavior that confirms the physical nature of the frequency component.

So–many paths have been taken, many studies to test the validity of the unitary twist field theory, and within my limits of testing this hypothesis, it seems so far the only workable explanation for quantization.  I believe it doesn’t appear to contradict the Standard Model, and does seem to add a bit to it–an explanation for why we see quantization using a geometrical technique.  And, it has the big advantage of connecting special relativity to quantum mechanics–and I am seeing promising results for a path to get to general releativity.  A lot of work still going on there.

However, my mind has really taken a big chunk of effort toward a more difficult issue for the unitary twist field theory–the non-causality of entangled particles or quantum interference.  Once again, as discussed in previous posts here, the best explanation for this seems pretty straightforward–the particles in unitary twist field theory are twists that act as group waves.  The group wave cluster, a Fourier composition, is limited to light speed (see the wonderful discovery in a previous post that any confined twist system such as the unitarty twist field theory must geometrically exhibit a maximum speed, providing a geometrical reason for the speed of light limit).  However, the phase portion of the component waves is not limited to light speed and resolves the various non-causal dilemmas such as the two-slit experiment, entangled particles, etc, simply and logically without resorting to multiple histories or any of the other complicated attempts to mash noncausality into a causal R3+T construct.

But for me, there is a difficult devil in the details of making this really work.  Light-speed limited group waves with instantaneous phase propagation raises a very important issue.  Through a great deal of thinking, I believe I have shown myself that noncausal interactions which require instantaneous phase propagation, will specify that distance and time be what I call “emergent” concepts–they are not intrinsic to the construction of existence, but emerge–probably as part of the initial Big Bang expansion.  If so, the actual dimensions of space-time are also emergent–and must come from or are based on a system with neither–a zero dimensional dot of some sort of incredibly complex oscillation.  Why do I say this?  Because instantaneous phase propagation, such as entangled particle resolving, must have interactions in local neighborhoods that do not have either a space or time component.  Particles have two types of interactions–ones where two particles have similar values for R3+T (physical interactions), and those that have similar values only in phase space.  In either case, two particles will affect each other.  But how do you get interactions between two particles that aren’t in the same R3+T neighborhood?  Any clever scheme like the Standard Model or unitary twist field theory must answer this all important question.

Physicists are actively trying to get from the Standard Model to this issue (it’s a permutation of the effort to create a quantum gravity theory).  As you would expect, I am trying to get from the unitary twist field theory to this issue.  Standard Model efforts have typically either focused on adding dimensions (multiple histories/dimensions/string theories) or more exotic methods usually making some set of superluminal assumptions.  As mentioned in previous posts, unitary twist field theory has twists that turn about axes in both an R3 and a direction I that is orthogonal to R3 in time.  Note that this I direction does not have any dimensional length–it is simply a vector direction that does not lie in R3.  When I use the unitary twist field theory to show how particles will interact in R3+T, either physically or in entangled or interfering states, those particles would simply have group wave constructs with either a matching set of R3+T values (within some neighborhood epsilon value) or must have matching phase information in the I space.  In other words, normal “nearby”  interactions between two particles happen in a spacetime neighborhood, but quantum interference interactions happen in the I space, the land that Time and Space forgot.  There is no dimensional length here, but phase matches allow interaction as well.  This appears to be a fairly clean way to integrate noncausal behavior into the unitary twist field theory.

Obviously, there are still things to figure out here, but that is currently the most promising path I see for how unitary twist field theory will address the noncausal interaction construct issue.

Agemoz

 

Experimental Confirmation of Lattice-Free Spacetime

September 1, 2012

In my previous post, I posited that spacetime cannot be a lattice at Planck scale distances, and by sheer coincidence, this completely different experimental report also confirms the likelihood that spacetime is smooth at this scale:

http://www.space.com/17399-gamma-ray-photons-quantum-spacetime.html

A smooth spacetime means that Planck scale lumpiness (a lattice of one of the types I describe in the previous post) will not explain quantization.  I suspected that anyway, because quantization is scale independent.  Low energy photons are quantized over distances that are enormously vast (hundreds of orders of magnitude) compared to Planck scale distances, so I did not see how a lattice could induce that quantization.

The field twist is also scale independent, so is another nice arrow in the quiver for unitary twist field theory.  But I’m grappling with a big problem as I develop the specular simulator for the unitary field twist theory.  The probability of electron motion is affected by its ability to self absorb a virtual photon, and this probability is directly proportionate to the fine structure constant.  I believe that this number is the square of the probability to emit and the probability to absorb, making each have about an 8 percent chance of occurring.  Physicists have absolutely no clue why this probability is what it is.  QFT gives no guidance but uses the experimentally determined value of interaction probability as a foundation for every quantum interaction of particles and fields.

As usual, I am trying to find a geometrical reason that the unitary field twist theory might give that probability–some ideas, but nothing obvious.  I have to figure something out before I can even start constructing the specular sim.

Agemoz

Lattice fields and Specular Simulation (latest work)

August 25, 2012

The latest work on the twist model is proceeding.  This work makes the assumptions noted in previous posts–EM interactions are mediated by photons as a quantized linear field twists.  The current work assumes these photons comprise the macroscopic electrostatic and magnetic field,  are unitary, and that they are sparse (do not interact).  It assumes that the twist has a common imaginary axis and three real dimensions on R3, similar but not the same as the QFT EM field, which is a complex value on R3 (t is assumed in both cases).  Electron-photon interactions occur when a twist ring captures a linear twist and absorbs it.  I am assuming that a photon twist is magnetic when the real axis of the twist is normal to the real dimension direction of travel, and is electrostatic when the real axis of the twist is tangent to the direction of travel (note how relativistic motion will alter the apparent axis direction, causing the expected shift of photons from electrostatic to magnetic or vice versa).

This set of assumptions creates a model where the linear twist of the photon will affect a twist ring electron in different ways depending on the photon twist axis direction.  Yes, this is a rather classical approach that ignores the fact that quantum interactions are probability distributions, among other things.  My approach is to create a model simulation environment to test the hypothesis that quantization can accurately be represented by field twists, the foundation of the unitary twist field theory.  It does not currently include entanglement, which I represent as the assumption that field twist phase information is instantaneous but that particles (twists) are group wave assemblies that propagate no faster than the speed of light.

These assumptions require that I make changes to my current simulator, which is a lattice approximation of a continuous vector field twist.  I was able to show in that simulator that a continuous twist solution could not work due to the unitary field blocking effect.  From that (and from QFT), I concluded that the twist field must be sparse and specular, where interactions are mediated by linear twist photons that do not interact.  I cannot use my existing simulator for this model but must make a new version, which is underway.  It will take a while so my posts will become less frequent until I get this working.

However, since I am now going away from a lattice simulator to a sparse model simulator, it did make me think about lattices as a representation of existence, and I concluded that that cannot be.  I have often seen theories that our universe is a quantum scale lattice of Planck length.  This supposedly would explain quantization, but I don’t think it works–the devil is in the details.  If the lattice is periodic, such as an array of cube vertexes or tetrahedral vertices, then there should be angles that propagate photons differently than others.  If our existence is spinning on a periodic lattice, we should see harmonics of that spin as background noise.  Within the range of our ability to detect such “radiation” from space, neither are happening.

So, suppose the lattice is not periodic but is a random clustering of vertexes, which solves the problem of periodicity causing background frequencies.  In that case, I would expect that photon propagation would have velocity variation as it propagated through varying spacing of vertexes.  There would have to be an upper bound to the density of vertexes to ensure apparent constant speed, and I struggle to think what would enforce that bound.  This is probably the most workable of the lattice ideas, but due to the necessity of a vertex spacing constraint, there would have to be an upper limit to the allowable energy of a photon, something we have no evidence for.  At this point, I think there is no likelihood that existence can be described as a lattice.  That hypothesis is attractive because we can easily imagine a creator God could build a computer that could most easily create a model of existence using a lattice of some form.  But even though the Planck length lattice is far too small for us to detect directly, I don’t think the evidence points that way.  (Side note:  it’s so interesting to look at early literature to see the historical evolution of what people thought formed the underlying basis for our existence–early on, God creating and controlling a mechanical model, then universe models were complex automated assemblies of gears and pullies, then the steam-engine or steam-punk type of machine, then mechanical computing engines, and now computer program driven machines simulating a lattice…  What is next? !)

Back to the lack of evidence for an underlying lattice to our existence.  This is a more important  realization than it might appear, especially from a philosophical standpoint.  If there was evidence that the universe was built on a lattice, that would strongly imply creation by a being, because a lattice is an underlying structure and constraint.  Evidence that there is no lattice, which is what I think I am seeing, would imply that there is no higher being because it is hard for me to imagine constructing a world without a lattice.  Of course, it would only be a mild implication, because my ability to imagine how a universe could be constructed without a lattice is limited.  Nevertheless, it is a pointer in the direction of existence coming from nothing rather than being constructed by a God.

Pretty interesting stuff!  More to come as the new simulator work gets underway.
Agemoz