Matter = Compressed Light

Mass — Compression of the Photon

In Phen Theory, mass is not a fundamental property. It doesn’t exist by default, it emerges from tension. Specifically, from projection that gets trapped. A Phenom (ΦΝΩ) is a point , no size, no volume, no physical extent. It cannot grow, but it can ingest energy.

When a photon Phield Phibre is intercepted by the Philter, it begins to fold in on itself, becoming compressed within the point-like structure of the Phenom. That compression becomes matter. This compression is not abstract - it’s quantised. The smallest unit of scalar photon compression is called a Phress, symbolised as: 工 — Phress (The symbol 工, from the Japanese kanji “kō,” means “work”, representing compressed light doing work. It resembles a press or coffee tamper or structured force.)

A Phress is not the energy itself, it is the unit of measure for how much projection is being held inside a Phenom. It tells us the charge level of the point — how much light is being stored under tension.

The Battery Analogy

You can think of the Phenom (ΦΝΩ) as a battery. It doesn’t expand, stretch, or change size, just like a physical battery doesn’t swell when it’s full of charge.

The projection (⚟) is like electricity. As projection flows into the battery, it doesn’t disappear, it gets compressed, folded into the structure. The more energy stored, the more resistance builds inside the Phenom. 

The Phress (工) is the charge reading. It doesn’t do the storing instead it tells you how much is stored.

Projection becomes compression. Energy becomes matter. But it’s all the same light either folded or free.

A True Unit of Mass

Unlike kilograms or electron-volts which are human-defined abstractions, the Phress is rooted in the actual cosmological cause of mass. It’s not a unit we impose on mass after we see it. It’s a direct measure of how much projection is being held, the actual structure of mass itself. That makes it the first causal unit of mass structurally tied to projection physics.

The Mesh of Tension

A Phenom does not exist in isolation. In the Phenomena’s matrix, each Phenom is connected to others via Tension Phibres extending through the lattice. Each of these Phibres carries the potential to deliver one photon’s worth of tension. When multiple Phibres pull inward, the Phress increases: 

M = n工

(Mass equals number of units of trapped projection)

But real-world configurations are rarely that neat. Some Phibres may be tightly compressed, others extremely stretched. The actual number of active Phresses may be fewer or unevenly distributed eg. The very edge of the Phenomena has Phenomenon that contain edge Phenoms with only 4 Philter phibres. This leads to tension asymmetry, directional compression, & a natural explanation for scalar imbalance across the Phenomena. This is also what’s responsible for the wobble of the membranes, varying waveforms, & more or less dense regions of the Phenomena such as Stars & Black Holes amongst other things.

In Essence

Mass is compressed light.

It is tension, folded inward, until resistance becomes real.

From the inside, it looks like compression.

From the outside, it behaves like resistance.

Same structure, viewed from two directions.

Phress (Mass) Formulas in Phen Theory

M = 工 — one unit of stored projection

M = n × 工 — full scalar charge in the Phenomena

The First Identity: ⚟ = 工

This is the core idea. The simplification of everything.

A projected photon is energy. 

A compressed photon is matter.

But both are the same light just in different scalar states.

“Light becomes matter. Matter is stored light.”

This is the First Identity of Phen Theory. It reduces the apparent complexity of mass-energy duality to a single causal transformation: ⚟ = 工

Not an approximation. Not a shortcut. A structural truth.

How This Relates to E = mc²

Einstein’s famous equation E = mc²  tells us that energy & mass are interchangeable. But in Phen Theory, we go further. We show why they are the same thing:

• Energy (E) is a photon in motion: ⚟

• Mass (m) is a photon in compression: 工

• c², the speed of light squared, becomes 1 because in scalar units, space & time are already built from 1 Phurlon per 1 Phlash (no conversion needed between joules & kilograms etc)

So E = mc² becomes: E = m × 1²

⚟ = 工

1 = 1

It’s not simplistic — it’s elegant. It collapses arbitrary units into a single unified state: Energy & mass are not two things. They are projection held or released.

Phen Theory doesn’t replace E = mc² — it completes it.

It shows that mass is not a thing, it’s a condition.

It shows that energy doesn’t need to be extracted, it just needs to be unPhurled.

Speculative Thoughts… 

But Kinda Awesome

Let’s lean into pure speculation for a moment. What happens if this chain reaction of Phress compression goes unchecked?

Perhaps it leads to localised super-dense states, where certain Phenom grow so massively tensioned they begin to pull their neighbouring Phenom inward, distorting their shared Phurlons & increasing tension exponentially. The result? What we interpret as black holes are regions where Phenomenon become so tightly compressed that no projections appear to escape. No visible light. No readable data. Just pure scalar resistance.

If the membrane of the Phenomena is like a crinkly map, then a black hole is a piece of that map that’s been scrunched up & put into a 100,000 kg press. You can no longer see what’s inside. You might still feel the pull. And technically, you could unfold it but it would take immense time, effort, & scalar reversal.

Gravity - The Pull That Isn’t

In Phen Theory, gravity isn’t a force. It doesn’t radiate, ripple, or attract. It emerges from within as tension between massive Phenom, mediated by a stretchable structure called the Phurlon (⟷).

"Gravity - is what happens to the Phenomena when mass accumulates. It's not a force but simply the name of the effect of the process of Philter Phibres shortening. It's akin to saying something is fun, fun is not a thing but an observation of a thing" 

What causes gravity?

Mass in Phen Theory is made from Phress (工) - a compressed photon (Light Energy) held inside a Phenom a 1P object with no way to expand. Which is formed from a Phield Phibre passing through the Philters mesh & starting the process of Phress accumulation. As Phress accumulates, the Phenom develops resistance to deformation as a kind of scalar pressure. This resistance begins to pull in the threads connecting it to neighbouring Phenom: the Philter Phibres (⤚⤙) & their stretched scalar length, the Phurlons. As Phress (mass) builds, those Phurlons shorten. And the shortening is what we experience as gravity. It is also responsible for the buckling of membranes & regions of the Phenomena gaining more density (High Phress regions) & less dense areas (Low Phress regions). As well as the formation of Stars & their inverse - black holes

A Simple Visual

Imagine two small balls connected by a stretchable band. The tighter the band, the closer they’re drawn. But in Phen Theory, you’re not pulling the ends. The balls are swallowing the band from all sides.The more Phress they store (compressed band) the shorter the connection between them becomes. This shortening is gravity. Nothing is being pulled, the space between them is just collapsing. That scalar band is the Phurlon. The measure of the shortest distance between 2P akin to a stretchable Planck Length, that comes in 2 forms as Phield Phibres & Philter Phibres but all are stretched or compressed Photons which in turn are transformed into matter via the acuumulation of Phress. In & of itself the Photon has no Phress (mass) until interaction with the Philter (Phibres) it is just light energy which was a division or projection from Potential Energy (The Phen)

Tension in the Mesh

The Phurlon always contains 1 unit of energy (1 Photon's worth) but it's length can stretch or shrink depending on the Phress at either end swallowing or releasing it.

• When the Phurlon is long, the energy is diluted & tension is low.

• When  the Phurlon is short, energy is concentrated & tension is high.

This tension is distributed through the Phenomena’s mesh, an invisible matrix of Phurlons & Phibres connecting every Phenom to its twelve nearest neighbours in a tight lattice. The result isn’t force. It’s structural tension. A scalar negotiation between mass and distance.

So what is gravity, really?

• Gravity is not a thing, not a force/Phorce, it’s an effect.

• It’s the external expression of 1P internal resistance to compression.

• It’s the witnessing of the shrinking of space between dense Phenom, not a force pulling.

• It’s the tightening or loosening of Phibres across the Phenomen's mesh.

The 2 way street

And in reverse this 1P battery of sorts (the Phenom), releases it's Phress as energy as it lets out the compressed Photon energy & in turn reduces tension on it's connected Phibres lengthening them, which in turn reduces the Phress of the Phenom in its vacinity. These rippling inward & outward chain reactions happen in cycles of Phlash (c = ⟷ / ⚟ᶠ see Phlogic for more info)

Summary

• Mass is compressed photon energy: 工 = Phress

• Phurlon (⟷) is the scalar stretch between Phenom

• Gravity is the result of Phress shortening those Phurlons, creating tension in the mesh of the Phenomena

• Gravity isn’t pulling, it’s the space between that’s shrinking

Quantum gravity

Not a literal description just a visualisation

Gravity Isn’t a Force - It’s a Rope of Light

Imagine two giant spheres, floating in the void. Each one has people inside, & between them stretches a long rope, not an ordinary rope, but a glowing thread of light. This light rope is more than just a connector, it is energy. And the amount of rope coiled up inside each sphere defines its mass. One sphere has only a little rope pulled in. Not much energy stored or much mass. The other sphere has a lot of rope wound into it. A dense coil of light. High energy & high mass.

Now here’s the twist: there’s only so much rope. If one sphere pulls more in, the other must let some go or else get dragged toward it. To remain still, one must give as the other takes. This exchange of light rope determines how far apart the spheres can be. If both have pulled in a lot & if both have high mass, they sit close together. If both have released more & of  lighter mass, they drift further apart. This changing distance between them is what we experience as gravity. But gravity, in this view, isn’t a force pulling them together. It’s an effect, the structural consequence of how much light rope each sphere holds. There’s no mysterious pull. Just a constant rope under tension stretched across the void & the way it’s coiled or uncoiled creates what we see as gravity.

Now imagine the people inside the spheres can wind or unwind the rope. The faster they do it, the more they can control the illusion of motion. A person who could modulate this rope fast enough would feel no gravity at all. They’d stay in place while everything else moves. What’s changing isn’t their position, it’s their mass: the amount of energy they’ve stored in rope form.

Mass = Energy. The Rope is Both.

The amount of light rope stored inside the sphere is its mass. But that same rope, when let out, becomes energy. There’s no conversion,  just change of state. So when we say E = mc², what we really mean is: Energy = Mass, mediated by time.

In this model, we don’t need c². Why? Because light is the unit. It defines length, energy, and time all at once. The only thing we need is the rope itself & its quantity, its tension, its structure.

Time is not something separate. It is the lengths of rope you pull in or out. Each stretch of rope is a moment. One arm-length in = one moment forward. Turn around & let it out then that’s another moment. The direction changes, but time keeps adding up.

You can’t go backward in time, because you can’t remove rope from the structure of reality. You can only change your relation to it, reversing direction while still adding length. That’s why the equals sign matters: Mass = Energy or Energy = Mass. Either way, the rope stays connected, and time keeps growing.

Quantum vs Macro: Voxel by Voxel

Now zoom in to the quantum scale. Inside a single unit of the universe - a voxel & Phenomenon, there are just two points connected by one light rope: a single Phurlon, one Projection Phibre, one Photo of energy. That’s the maximum. No more can fit. But when many of these units stack & when Phenomenon pile up in dense clusters, they can store more rope. More tension. More light compressed inward. This is mass at scale.

In such dense regions, the Phurlons become short. The bodies appear as a single object. The light ropes are so tightly packed they act like one mass. And where Phurlons are long & slack where the structure is thin there’s no visible object at all. Just apparent emptiness, stretched structure, low mass. Still rope just less tension.

So What Is Gravity, Really?

Gravity is what we see when tension accumulates. It’s not a force. It’s not a warping of space. It’s the structural result of how much light rope a body has absorbed. Every ball of matter in the universe is a bundle of coiled light. Every distance between bodies is a stretch of that rope. And time is simply how many lengths of that rope has been played out or reeled in.