What Light Actually Carries: Frequency Registration and the Limits of Observation
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| author | Doumbouya, Lisa Michelle |
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| contents | <p>Observation in physics is often described as delayed access to past events via finite signal speed, implicitly treating events as pre-existing objects awaiting discovery. In this paper, we present a structure-first clarification: light does not transport time, duration, or temporal ordering. It transports frequency and phase. Only physical processes whose structural transitions couple into admissible electromagnetic frequency bands can be registered, preserved, and later observed. The observable past is therefore defined not by temporal distance but by frequency compatibility and coherence persistence. This framework clarifies the electromagnetic spectrum as a band-limited diagnostic of structure, explains why certain epochs and processes are intrinsically unobservable, and provides a unified interpretation of gravitational redshift and cosmic background radiation without modifying relativity or field dynamics.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | What Light Actually Carries: Frequency Registration and the Limits of Observation Doumbouya, Lisa Michelle frequency registration electromagnetic spectrum observation theory graviational redshift band-limited observability structural persistence light propagation <p>Observation in physics is often described as delayed access to past events via finite signal speed, implicitly treating events as pre-existing objects awaiting discovery. In this paper, we present a structure-first clarification: light does not transport time, duration, or temporal ordering. It transports frequency and phase. Only physical processes whose structural transitions couple into admissible electromagnetic frequency bands can be registered, preserved, and later observed. The observable past is therefore defined not by temporal distance but by frequency compatibility and coherence persistence. This framework clarifies the electromagnetic spectrum as a band-limited diagnostic of structure, explains why certain epochs and processes are intrinsically unobservable, and provides a unified interpretation of gravitational redshift and cosmic background radiation without modifying relativity or field dynamics.</p> |
| title | What Light Actually Carries: Frequency Registration and the Limits of Observation |
| topic | frequency registration electromagnetic spectrum observation theory graviational redshift band-limited observability structural persistence light propagation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18775300 |