What Could the Medium Be Made Of?

Where Speculation Must Stop SERIES VIII — WHAT COULD THE MEDIUM BE MADE OF?  Candidate Substrates & Harmonic Structure This series has deliberately walked a narrow line. We began with mechanics that are unavoidable:a medium that supports stress, waves, and regimes of response.From there, we explored possibilities—standing waves, thresholds, harmonic organization—that are consistent with those […]

What Would Count as Evidence for a Structured Vacuum? SERIES VIII — WHAT COULD THE MEDIUM BE MADE OF?  Candidate Substrates & Harmonic Structure Speculation is only useful if it knows how to stop. After exploring the possibility that the vacuum might possess structure below the threshold of chemistry, the most important question is not

Mapping Harmonic Octaves to a Mechanical Medium SERIES VIII — WHAT COULD THE MEDIUM BE MADE OF?  Candidate Substrates & Harmonic Structure Speculative, Clearly Labeled Everything up to this point has remained mechanically conservative.Only now—after clarifying that atoms are defects governed by modes, not modes themselves—does it make sense to revisit a historical intuition about

Why Chemistry Has a Threshold SERIES VIII — WHAT COULD THE MEDIUM BE MADE OF?  Candidate Substrates & Harmonic Structure If standing waves can exist without particles, a sharper question follows: Why do “things” suddenly appear at all?Why does chemistry begin where it does—rather than gradually or everywhere? The answer is not chemical.It is mechanical.

Standing Waves as Structure Without Substance SERIES VIII — WHAT COULD THE MEDIUM BE MADE OF?  Candidate Substrates & Harmonic Structure If a continuous medium does not require particles, a natural question follows: What kind of structure can exist in a medium that has no constituents? The answer is familiar, precise, and already central to

Why a Continuous Medium Does Not Require Particles SERIES VIII — WHAT COULD THE MEDIUM BE MADE OF?  Candidate Substrates & Harmonic Structure When the idea of a physical vacuum is introduced, a familiar response often follows: Isn’t this just particles again—only hidden? It’s a natural reaction. Much of modern intuition about matter is built

Do We Need the Vacuum to Be Made of Anything at All? SERIES VIII — WHAT COULD THE MEDIUM BE MADE OF?  Candidate Substrates & Harmonic Structure Before asking what the vacuum might be made of, we need to ask a more basic—and more disciplined—question: Do we actually need it to be made of anything