Void and Primordial Light-Energy: A Hypothesis of the Cyclic Evolution of Light-Energy and Matter

This hypothesis takes the Void and primordial light-energy as the fundamental premises of cosmic evolution and maintains that matter did not originally exist as an entity independent of energy. What is ordinarily called matter is only a form assumed by primordial light-energy after it shifts from free propagation into localized circulation, mutual intertwining, and a stable closed structure. In its free state, primordial light-energy appears as light-speed energy streams moving rectilinearly through the Void. Under an effective perturbation, their rectilinear motion is impeded, the energy curls inward, and an energy lattice is formed, thereby giving rise to matter. When an energy lattice loses stability, the primordial light-energy within it can break free from the closed structure, resume rectilinear motion at light speed, and return to the Void. Light-energy and matter are therefore not two independent realities, but two dynamic and organizational states of the same primordial existence. On this basis, the paper offers a unified account of optical and thermal phenomena, the growth of celestial mass, the deflection of light near massive celestial bodies, the confinement of light by black holes, and the formation and disintegration of stars and planets. The paper is an ontological hypothesis in natural philosophy. At its present stage, its primary aim is conceptual unity and internal coherence rather than conformity with the established framework of contemporary physics.