Everything in the framework starts from one event. Something gets pushed from one place into another. Where it lands is a bubble. Where it came from is a void. This page draws both, and lets you make one yourself.
Picture space as a foam, like the froth on a coffee, only packed so tightly there are no gaps at all. Every cell is the same shape: a cube with its eight corners cut off, giving 6 square faces and 8 hexagons. Lord Kelvin picked this shape in 1887 as the way to fill space with equal cells using the least wall. The cells are unimaginably small, about 10−35 metres across, and in this picture nothing is smaller.
At rest, every cell holds the same amount. Nothing is happening. The foam is full, even and quiet. For anything to happen, something has to move.
Take a spade to flat sand. Lift one scoop and drop it beside you. Now there are two new things on the beach: a hole and a pile. You only did one thing. The hole and the pile are its two ends, and neither can exist without the other. Fill the hole from the pile and both vanish together.
The pile. One cell squeezed full: a packet of energy pushed into a place that was already full.
The hole. The place the energy left. It is emptier than the foam around it, a gap the foam remembers.
The scoop. One event with two ends. The bubble and the void are that one thing, seen from where it landed and from where it left.
Tapping a cell scoops its energy into a neighbour. You get a void where you tapped and a bubble next door, joined by a thread. That thread is D. Drag the bubble anywhere and the thread stretches, however far. Tap either end and both answer at once, because they are one object.
Watch the counter. However many pairs you make, the energy in the foam never changes. Nothing is created. It is only moved, and every move leaves both ends behind.
Once every event is a bubble and a void, several things physics treats as separate puzzles start to look like the same picture.
Two particles born in one event are the two ends of one D. Learn something at one end and you know the matching thing at the other, however far apart, because it was never two things.
Bell correlations and Paper #75 →A particle is a displacement that keeps its shape, a way the cell can ring. The cell has 14 ways to ring, and they sort into six families that line up with the Standard Model's particles.
How the modes are counted →Where a lot of displacement gathers, the foam around it is thinner. Things drift toward thinner foam. In the framework, that drift is gravity, a pressure difference in the foam.
From the foam to Einstein's equations →Bubbles move on. Voids stay where they were made. The pattern of voids is a record of everything that has happened, and the direction that record grows is the direction time runs.
Why time only runs one way →B + V = D is the framework's starting assumption, called Axiom Zero. It is assumed, not derived. Everything else is built on top of it, and that is what gets tested: the particle families, the constants, the predictions that could kill it. Those results are in the papers, each with a script you can run. None of them is peer reviewed yet.
The drawings here are a 2D slice at cartoon scale. The real cells are 3D, and a bubble is one cell holding about one Planck mass of electromagnetic energy, roughly 22 micrograms squeezed into a space 10−35 metres wide. The entanglement, gravity and time cards describe how the framework reads each one; the papers say which steps are derived and which are identifications.
See how the framework is built → · Read The Shape of Everything → · Read the papers →