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=== - What’s strong and worth keeping: the idea that local photon–electron exchange explains the arrow of time, local clocks, and decoherence is solid and matches quantum optics and thermodynamics. The geometric picture (spherical wavefronts, 1/r²) is a productive, visual way to organize many physical facts. EM bound energy contributes to mass and must be part of any coherent story about mass/inertia; using boundary geometry to explain quantization and constants (e.g., Planck constant as a geometric action quantum) is promising as a conceptual scaffold. ===
* What requires heavy lifting or is unlikely as stated: reproducing the full universal gravitational interaction purely from ordinary photon emission/absorption without additional structure is incompatible with simple energy-budget estimates and universality tests unless QAT is embedded into a serious emergent/induced gravity framework. The electron’s spin-½ and the Standard-Model origin of particle masses are not trivially replaced by a classical geometric boundary idea; they require a quantum field / representation-theory derivation.