The Universe as a Circuit: Coherence, Bias, and the Flow of Existence
Modern physics struggles with dualities — wave vs. particle, spacetime vs. matter, light vs. dark. In this essay I propose a new framework: the universe itself behaves as a biased transmission medium, analogous to an electronic circuit. Photons are the carriers of coherence, matter is frozen resistance, stars function as forward-biased sources, and black holes act as diodes rectifying the flow into darkness. This “coherence-circuit” view dissolves many paradoxes and suggests testable predictions.
1. Bias as the Fundamental Condition
In conventional physics, spacetime is modeled as neutral, empty background.
But nothing would propagate in a truly neutral medium.
Insight: spacetime is already biased toward transmission at c. This is why photons never rest, why radiation flows, why “nothing” isn’t truly nothing.
2. The Role of Matter
Matter is frozen coherence: localized resistance that slows or stores the transmission.
Atoms act like capacitors, trapping coherence in quantized states.
Life, remarkably, is an oscillatory circuit — storing, amplifying, and re-broadcasting coherence.
3. Stars and Black Holes as Circuit Elements
Stars: forward-biased current sources, broadcasting coherence as photons.
Black Holes: diodes, rectifying flow in the opposite direction — channeling coherence into the complementary bias (darkness).
Together, they maintain the circuit symmetry of the cosmos: emission vs. absorption.
4. No Absolute Ground
There is no universal “zero voltage” of existence.
Instead, potentials are relative: stars, planets, black holes all sit at different coherence levels.
Universes may simply be separate domains in a larger coherence field, each biased differently — like rails in an electrical system.
5. Philosophical Implications
Darkness is not emptiness but the complementary rail required for transmission.
The “Big Bang” may have been a bias reversal event, flipping the polarity of coherence flow.
Death itself could be seen as a similar rectification: a transfer of signal from one rail to another.
6. Testable Predictions
Double-slit: fringe visibility should scale with coherence length, equally for electrons and photons, since both are subject to the same bias-driven coherence law.
Black holes: observable signatures might resemble rectifier noise, where coherence “leakage” appears as Hawking radiation.
Cosmic background: fluctuations should look like residual bias noise rather than relic heat.
7. Conclusion
To describe the universe as a circuit is not just metaphor. It is a unifying framework:
photons = current
matter = resistance/capacitance
stars = sources
black holes = diodes
coherence = the hidden driver
This perspective collapses dualities into a single principle:
⚡ Existence flows because spacetime is biased toward transmission.