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11 August 2025
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Abstract
Keywords:
- Fundamental Structure: Space emerges from a dynamic network of Planck-scale Space Elementary Quanta (SEQ) – indivisible units whose elastic interactions and excitation states encode all physical phenomena.
- Time and Entropy: Global time arises from discrete, entropy-increasing transformations of the SEQ network, with local time dilation governed by modulation of SEQ state-transition frequencies.
- Mass-Gravity Unification:
1. Preparatory Assumptions:
- The spin degrees of freedom of SEQ and their elastic bonds remain decoupled, preserving independent dynamical regimes.
- Under perturbation, the system responds by modifying SEQ resonant frequencies while generating compressive/tensile forces.
- This elastic response is nonlinear and asymmetric.
- SEQ are stable, indivisible structures composed of sub-Planckian components. SEQ’ spin emerges from collective space transformations at the sub-Planck level. This ensures the spin degrees of freedom do not interfere with elastic deformations in the SEQ network. This architecture naturally protects spin dynamics from elastic disturbances.
- At the sub-Planckian scale, the elastic properties of the underlying substrate impose an upper bound on the spacing modulation and tension between adjacent SEQ. This fundamental limit ensures that extreme deformations (e.g., near black hole singularities) cannot disrupt the topological integrity of the SEQ network.
- In this model, the harmonic oscillation intervals of SEQ are integer multiples of Planck time(tₚ). Consequently, all dynamic processes—including elastic strain interactions, harmonic conduction, as well as scalar, spinor field transmissions and other energy conduction mode induced by rotational axis dynamics—are fundamentally constrained by the discrete Planck-time intervals. This property inherently ensures the model's consistency with the discrete-time hypothesis in quantum mechanics and quantum gravity theories.
2. Time as a Counting Process of Spacetime Network Transformations:
3. Definition and Analysis Formula of Entropy
| System State | SEQ Energy Distribution =12 |
Entropy |
Remarks |
| Initial non-equilibrium state | [3, 1, 5, 3] | 45 | - |
| Intermediate state | PathA:[3, 1, 4, 4]; PathB:[3, 2, 4, 3]; |
PathA:48; PathB:72; |
- |
| Final state | PathA:[3, 2, 3, 4]; PathB:[3, 3, 3, 3]; |
PathA:72; PathB:81; |
Due to adjacent energy transfer with minimal quanta h, this system cannot reach maximum entropy in case A |

| Comparison Dimension | Multiplicative Entropy | Traditional Statistical Entropy |
| Process Explicitness | Explicitly records energy homogenization steps via product sequences (e.g., ∏ᵢ mᵢ), preserving microstate transition details | Describes only macro-state differences via logarithmic state-count (ln Ω), erasing intermediate dynamics |
| Physical Intuitiveness | Entropy increase directly reflects irreversible energy redistribution; time asymmetry emerges from dynamics | Relies on probabilistic assumptions (e.g., molecular disorder) and requires ad hoc low-entropy past boundary |
| Process Resolution | Tracks Planck-timescale (tₚ) energy transfers; | Limited to ensemble averages, incapable of resolving quantum fluctuations or short-timescale entropy production |
4. Analysis of Action
- The absence of an explicit potential energy term in the analytical herein expression is compensated by the concept that any form of metric change in space results in a reduction of SEQ resonance frequency. This implies that the potential energy term is inherently embedded within the formulation via resonance frequency modulation.
- The essence of the potential energy terms in both the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulations, under this model, can be understood as modulations in the frequency of energy transmission events.
- Gravitational potential energy, electromagnetic potential energy, weak interaction potential energy, and strong interaction potential energy are all fundamentally manifestations of the elastic potential energy resulting from distortions in the spatial tensors or twists.
- The essence of potential energy release is the reduction of spatial distortion, which is accompanied by an increase in SEQ resonance frequency.
5. Local Time, the Proper Time and Relative Time in Relativity
- Key Distinction from GR Effects
- SR Effects as Perceptual Phenomena
- Contrast with GR Mechanisms
6. Basic Physical Quantities in this Framework
7. Phenomenological Consistency Checks
8. Experiment to Verify or Falsify the Hypotheses Proposed
9. Gravitational Interaction, General Relativity and Cosmic Evolution Model
| Stage-Phase | Stage Name | Process | Universe State | Thermodynamic Characteristics |
| 0-Compression | Pre-Big Bang Initial State | The universe's SEQ network is highly compressed, with resonant frequencies close to zero. The initial low-entropy state may be reflected in a part of local SEQ network having particularly high energy, while most have low energy. | High-energy Aggregation State | Low entropy |
| 1-Compression | Compression Potential Energy → Kinetic Energy | Elastic compression potential energy is released and converted into cosmic expansion kinetic energy | Accelerating Expansion | Low entropy, high energy concentration, rapid entropy increase |
| 2-Stretching | Kinetic Energy → Tension Potential Energy | Expansion kinetic energy is converted into tension potential energy | Decelerating Expansion | Increasing entropy |
| 3-Stretching | Tension Potential Energy → Kinetic Energy | Tension potential energy is released and converted into contraction kinetic energy | Accelerating Contraction | Entropy continues to increase |
| 4-compression | Kinetic Energy → Compression Potential Energy | Contraction kinetic energy is converted into compression potential energy | Decelerating Contraction | Entropy continues to increase |
| 5-repeated Oscillation → Equilibrium Oscillation |
Energy Homogenization → Equilibrium Oscillation | In each cycle, the energy distribution becomes more uniform, with no obvious concentrated states remaining | Approaching Equilibrium State | Entropy approaches maximum, oscillating universe in thermal equilibrium |
| This process does not collapse back to the initial birth configuration of universe, nor does it reduce entropy—since the entropy increasing trend remains invariant under expansion or contraction, the homogenization of energy distribution is an irreversible process, until entropy reaches its maximum value. | ||||
- E global SEQ network =Kresonant +K spin +Uelastic;
- Uelastic=U compress-stretch +U twistor(Space network spinor);
- Utwistor(Space network spinor) converts into Kresonant +K spin; embodied as space network spinor
- Ucompress-stretch converts into Kresonant
| 1 | Potential energy is stored in elastic bonds composed of sub-Planck scale components. |
| 2 | In this model the energy of SEQ mᵢ equals the SEQ resonant kinetic energy plus the SEQ spin kinetic energy plus the elastic potential energy assigned to this SEQ from its adjacent elastic bonds manifested as frequency suppression. |
| 3 | Chapter 10 will discuss that mass formation is mainly due to spin locking the spatial compression state and the key factor is the coupling confinement potential between the network spinor and the SEQ fixed chirality spin. |
- First stage of cosmic expansion: mass generation dominates.
- Second and third stages of cosmic evolution:
- Fourth stage of cosmic evolution: the universe re-enters a compressed phase.
- Fifth stage of cosmic evolution:
10. Mass, Gravity, SU(3) and Higgs Field in Quantum Field Theory
11. Thoughts on the 3D Spatial Arrangement Matrix of Microscopic Particles
12. Quantum Gravity, Graviton and Space Elastic Response Frequency
13. Space Deformation(Geometry) - SEQ Resonant Frequency Modulation Duality
- The model suggests that any metric change in space, such as curvature caused by gravitational fields, modulates the resonant frequency of SEQ. Compression and stretching phases influence frequency domain modulation through asymmetric elastic coefficients. This frequency modulation directly encodes the geometric information of spatial deformation, eliminating the need for additional Riemann geometry descriptions.
- The traditional concept of potential energy terms (gravitational, electromagnetic, or quantum field potentials) is reinterpreted as frequency modulation of SEQ resonance. For instance, a decrease in gravitational potential energy corresponds to a frequency domain offset, while the release of potential energy manifests as dynamic modulation restoring the frequency to its high-frequency ground state. This mapping enables a unified frequency-domain representation of the metric field in general relativity and potential energy terms in quantum field theory.
- Entropy Increase Rate: In addition, since the conduction frequency within a local space directly determines the local entropy increase rate of the system, there also exists a dualistic modulation mechanism between space geometry deformation and the rate of entropy increase. This relationship is self-consistent and analytically derivable under the SEQ quantized space model.
- Stretching Phase
- Compression Phase
- Left-handed Twistor
- Right-handed Twistor
- m: mass
- K: a dimensional conversion constant (can be dimensionless or carry traditional mass dimensions)
- N: number of SEQs contained in the mass-bearing object
- ω̄: average resonance frequency (relative to Planck frequency shift)
- ωₚ: Planck frequency
- (ωₚ/ω̄): represents the degree of spatial deformation
14. Preliminary Exploration of the Electromagnetic Interaction Physical Picture:
15. Discussion:
16. Summary:
- Cubic
- Face-Centered Cubic (FCC)
- Hexagonal Close-Packed (HCP)
17. Statement:
Funding Declaration:
Conflict of interest Declaration
Appendix A
A.1. Speculative Diagram of Proton's Internal Structure with Quarks and Gluons

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