The Druid’s Contact Realism

An Ontology of Emergent Realness in a Quantum-Cosmic Universe

Abstract: The druid proposes a radical reinterpretation of wave-particle duality, photon behavior, and the cosmological structure of matter through a novel framework called Contact Realism. It challenges the assumptions of quantum orthodoxy and posits that reality, or "hardware," emerges only through discrete acts of energy (or mass) packet collision when any 2 energy packets collide in a relativity vacuum. Light (i.e. observable) matter becomes real when photons collide; dark matter is the (inferred) ocean of energy yet to collide. Collision happens as because of quantum turbulence (i.e. chaos). The essay introduces a naturalist perspective of act-over-object and presents a unified view on quantum emergence and cosmic mass distribution.

1. Introduction: A Fault in the Duality

The photon, long the paradoxical lynchpin of quantum theory, is traditionally framed as both wave and particle. But this duality, while mathematically serviceable at the everyday level of cognition, is conceptually incoherent. A photon does not "behave as" a wave or a particle depending on context. Rather, it is fundamentally and only a wave: a wavelet of actualized energy propagating @c, not a bearer of potential, not a quasi-particle cloaked in statistical vagueness. It does not possess a particle-function in hiding.

The supposed particle aspect arises only in a very specific context: when 2 wave particles propagating @c collide 1quantum : 1quantum, a quantum being defined as a decided unit, in a relativity vacuum, thereby generating a 1c² quantum of realness.

2. Contact as Ontological Event

A photon that does not collide does not become. It does not, in any meaningful way, emerge into the real as particle as registered by an observer. Fundamentally the universe prior to emergence does not contain particles in transit, but rather waves—energy acts in motion. When two such wave-acts or packets collide under the proper, meaning relativity vacuum conditions, they create a discrete, localized event reified by an observer as quantum of realness: a particle as a momentary quantum of hardware.

This is not a revelation or measurement of pre-existing identity. It is a creation—an emergent making of the real, not a finding. The collision is not collapse; it is ignition. Two hands shaking do not reveal hands; they make contact, and only then does the event become real.

3. No Potential, Only Transit

Contrary to conventional quantum language, the photon is not a carrier of probabilistic potential. It is a traveling possible actual—a coherent possible instruction in transit. That instruction may, or may not, be received. If it does not make contact, it does not manifest. If it strikes, it generates a unique moment of realness.

There is no dual function, no hybrid identity. There is only the random wave (as momentum): and then, sometimes, it strikes another random wave. Then both, at collision, generate a quantum of realness.

4. Hardware Emergence: The Quantum Bit of Real

The particle is not an object in time. It is a bit of realness, momentarily emergent from the collision of two wave-acts. Hardware, in this frame, is not matter as substance, but matter as quantised and reified event—a material blip produced by energetic banging-together. It is not discovered; it is produced. The real is not extracted from the wave; it is made by collision.

This may explain the discreteness of the quantum world: realness comes in bursts because realness is burst. The world is not smeared with persistent being but punctuated by quantised acts. If the causes of the realness quantum, 2 quantised energy packets, were not quantised, then a realness quantum could not happen.

5. Light and Dark: A Cosmology of Contact

This redefinition of quantum emergence opens a radical possibility in cosmology. What we call light matter—the visible, interactive cosmos—is simply an area of turbulence where energy quanta are colliding. That is, all observed and inferred particles, atoms, stars, and organisms are regions of past or ongoing wave packet collisions. The Big Bang and its aftermath were not the release of particles, but the onset of massive, chaotic, energetic turbulence—conditions necessary for collision after collision, the emergence of realness and the eventual identification of the self-organisation into complex systems of such realness moments.

But the vast majority of the universe’s mass is now calculated (or inferred) as dark matter—invisible, untouchable, unfelt. In this framework, dark matter ‘waits’ as not yet interactive (hence @rest) energy packets. It is this vast ocean of energy packets—wavelets, photons, random momenta, instructions—that have not found their counterpart, have not collided, have not become real, cannot be observed as particles.

Dark matter, then, is not mysterious substance, but possible wave-acts still awaiting actualization and thereby realness. Where light (observable) matter is the history of impact, dark matter is the archive of acts without encounter.

6. Mass-Energy Transformation: The Physics of the Particle Effect

Einstein’s framework proposes that mass and energy are interchangeable—mass being energy confined, energy being mass unconfined, both propagating @c. What, then, happens at the moment ( a relativity vacuum) of impact when a photon collides with a photon trapped within a confined mass of photons (such as the paper screen in Young’s experiment), when energy becomes transformed as a particle effect by the collision @c.

Contact Realism offers a new answer: energy is linear action—unfolding in space without resistance. Mass, by contrast, is non-linear action—energy that is looped, folded, or confined (without resistance) as a quantum of mass.

When a photon strikes—say, an atom in a paper screen—its linearity is broken. The uninterrupted flow of energy is disrupted, forced into non-linear response. This rupture or redirection transforms linear wave-energy into locally observed quantised realness: the discrete, momentary particle affect.

Thus, the particle does not pre-exist the contact. It is not a hidden identity revealed. It, as reification, happens as a consequence of contact —a burst of realness created by the act of an energy quantum colliding with an alternate energy quantum.

This explains the apparent conversion of massless energy or amassed energy into realness momenta by contact. The 1 : 1 (hence c : c, hence c²) impact of an energy quantum upon another does not release the particle—it makes it, as a flash, indeed as quantum of realness. That realness quantum is represented by the c² symbol.

7. Reality as Contact-Dependent

In Contact Realism, realness (and its continuance, being) is not a given. It is an outcome, indeed a random an emergent. The hardware universe is not made of stuff, but of reified acts. The ontology is one of event primacy. A thing is not, until two decided events collide @c. There is no particle in transit. Only when wave stops wave absolutely do we get momentary, localized realness. This applies not only to photons but to all forms of emergent matter (and which, fundamentally, consist of discrete weave packets).

In this view, reality is granular because matter is granular because the wave packets of which mass happens as aggregate is granular (i.e. quantised) because momentarily made real by discrete contact. Reality is not found—it is struck into existence.

8. Toward a New Quantum-Cosmic Framework

The druid’s Contact Realism may not yet be modern physics—but it aims to ask what modern physics has avoided: not how things behave, but how they become. It offers a parsimonious model: no duality, no hidden variables, no observers collapsing wavefunctions and entanglements—just wave-packet-acts, in transit, and the real born when they collide.

It invites reinterpretation of cosmology, quantum theory, and the nature of experience. It insists: the particle is not a thing, but an observer defined and quantised quality of an act. The universe is not a field of stuff, but a choreography of absolute contacts (or interactions).

Conclusion: The Universe Waits to Be Made

This is a universe not of (hardware) objects but of reified (soft) events. It is not filled with persistent, lurking entities, but with the possibility of events transmuting into moments of realness. Only when wave meets wave in a singular act of contact @^c do realness and thingness emerge. Light, the observable, is what has happened. Dark, the unobservable) is what waits.

What we call energy, unconfined or confined as matter, is not the foundation of reality. Contact is (the very Buddha proposed 2500 years ago).