Hi Carole; I know you are staying out of the ATM forum, perhaps because you are not comfortable commenting on advanced physics speculation. But maybe you are lurking. This thread was dedicated to you and will be open for a total of thirty days, the amount of time allotted to any single ATM discussion.

Your questions coincidently were right down my alley. My previous ATM threads have addressed them to a degree, but by creating this thread for you I have been able to advance my thinking. That equates to further new speculations.

This thread actually contains new speculations about the energy background and the action of the energy quantum. I have been speculating about an energy background, energy quanta, and about matter being formed in quantum energy increments for awhile, but until this thread I have not been able to put into word "salad" the exact description of the background and tie it seamlessly to the collapsing action of a quantum of energy. It is the concept of energy density equalization within the quantum space that causes the collapse and burst of the quantum; lovely.

It was speculation # [39]”Sub-quanta do not exist as separate amounts of energy; instead they are connected, they fill all space, and they demonstrate energy density fluctuations continually so that at a point in space, the energy density is always changing”, that broke new ground for me in my series of speculations.

After including that in the list, Neverfly mentioned it as one of the speculations that might be testable and I responded (with some editing):
… The collapse is nothing more than the equalization of the energy density within that quantum sized space. As it equalizes it requires less space because the sub-quanta are a group of tinier energy density fluctuations and once the quantum amount of sub-quanta occupy the tiny space required (quantum space), all of the multiple density fluctuations captured in the quantum space are resolved into one fluctuation which uses less space and has higher energy density. The use of less space equates to the collapse of the quantum, and the higher energy density acheived when all of the captured sub-quanta become one fluctuation equates to the maximum possible energy density which causes the quantum to burst back into a cloud of sub-quanta.

This is a speculative break through for me. Your questions and Neverfly’s attempt to support my efforts have nudged me closer to my goal of a personal set of speculations that in my mind explain the universe to my satisfaction. Thank you both.