What if you could store vastly more information in the same unit of space as a standard byte, just by changing the shape and logic of how data is structured? That's the intuition behind Phyte. A speculative computing concept born from the geometry of Phen Theory, where ternary logic & the Square Bipyramid structure of the Phenomenon suggest a data unit far richer than anything binary can offer.
Imagine the quantum or smallest unit of data is 1 singular object (a Phenom) in 3 states. Those states of data I call Phigits (they don't like being still). A Phigit is the smallest unit of anything, any number, any object. They have no fractions, they can spin & flip, but they are always a singular object and always a variation of 1 (⁻1, 1, 1⁺). Never a zero, because they are whole. The only other state is off, not calculable or observable. No zero state, just null, no-thing, no-1.
The 3 Phigits arrange into 3 combination isosceles triangles, what I call Phaces. The various Phace identities formed from combinations of Phigits are balanced ternary bits (Trits). What I call Phits of data.
In the same way Phaces arrange Phigits into Phits, the Phenomenon is the arrangement or entanglement of those 8 Phaces as a voxel packet of data. What I call a Phyte. So the full structure is: 3 Phigit, 8 Phit, Phyte. Far richer in data than a binary 8 bit byte of 256 combinations, with all Phenom and Phaces held in superposition like a wavefunction waiting to collapse.
This is a structural intuition rather than a formal proposal, but a Phenomenon holds an incredible amount of quantum combinations in effectively the same unit of space as a standard byte. If I had a secure safe of finite space to store my information, I'd be a lot more data rich packing it with Phytes than Bytes.
Phenomenon are square bipyramids in shape so they stack neatly with no wasted space (if some are rotated). Nature seems to agree, from chemicals to crystals there is a vast array of Square Bipyramid structures & lattices. And seeing as computing already uses chips of crystalline structure, perhaps the Phyte could become a more logical way to pack information, particularly with crystals of octahedron or square bipyramid atomic structure.
Now if each Phace holds all possibilities as a quantum state until it collapses at the Phenomenon's vertices into a Phenom of ⁻1, 1, 1⁺, then we can start to see how a Balanced Ternary Quantum Computing Logic might work. A type of quantum crystal matrix computer.
Maybe this sparks an idea for someone working in a related field.