Primer: Phase-Biased Geometry in Plain English

A New Way to See the Universe

In traditional physics, space is the stage and particles or fields play out their interactions upon it.
In Phase-Biased Geometry (PBG), there is no underlying stage.
Everything is structure—every particle, photon, or planet is a mode: a dynamic pattern with a shape (envelope) and an influence (coherence field).

Modes, Envelopes, and Coherence Fields

• Mode: The basic unit of reality in PBG—not a point, not a wave, but a biasable envelope.
• Envelope: The region where the mode “lives”—its size and structure.
• Coherence field: The way a mode influences (and is influenced by) all others—a kind of “presence” that can nudge neighbours.

Nature’s Rule: Least-Cost Pathways

PBG’s core law:

Every mode seeks the most efficient (least-cost) path through the landscape of all coherence fields.

• This is not a “force” pushing or pulling, nor is it a result of “warped spacetime.”
• Instead, structure and motion emerge as modes constantly rebalance, seeking to minimize the cost of anchoring and overlap with other fields.

From Quantum to Cosmos: The Cascade

The same principle explains:

• Light bending (lensing): A photon’s path curves not because space is bent, but because its mode is biased by the Sun’s coherence field.
• Atomic shells: Electrons settle into “shells”—the most efficient anchoring patterns—just as planets find stable orbits.
• Belts, rings, and clouds: The gaps and clusters of the Solar System, the Oort cloud, and even galactic rings emerge from these bias patterns.
• Time and expansion: Cosmic redshift, time’s arrow, and the expansion of the universe all arise from the ongoing evolution of modal coherence.

What’s Not Here

• No spacetime fabric—no background “container.”
• No “forces” in the old sense—just gradients in bias and coherence.
• No strict split between quantum and classical—everything remains biasable, at every scale.

Ready for the Math?

This primer sets up the concepts. For the mathematics, the constants, and how everything from Newton to Hubble is derived, see:

• An Introduction to Modal Dynamics and Biased Geometry
• Sample Physical Results

PBG invites you to reimagine the universe not as a static space, but as a dynamic landscape of biasable structures, all seeking harmony at the lowest cost.

Where Next?

• Phase-Biased Geometry — The formal structure
• Standard Model Companion — Replacing mass, charge, and decay
• Appendix Master — Derivations from the coherence action