A particle is formed by random, ultra-fine, ultra-minuscule “wavelets” of EMR (or “affectance”) accumulating around a center location. It happens because as those wavelets of ultra-fine affects encounter each other, the slow each other into a crowd or cluster of noise.
If one has a bunch of EMR or affectance that is propagating through space (a field of affectance), it is traveling at the maximum speed that affects (or “light”) can travel through that particular density of affectance. As it propagates, it changes its “center” location, disallowing any "side coming affects or EMR from being slowed toward that center. The center keep moving out of the way of what would have been an accumulation of affectance. Thus the accumulation doesn’t occur.
Dissipation occurs when a bunch of affects (EMR) that had an association in either location or direction of propagation, changes or weakens its association, either by slightly changing its location or its direction. What they call a “photon” is merely a relatively large bunch of affectance (EMR) traveling in a single direction. But the truth is that every bit of that photon’s affectance isn’t propagating exactly in the same direction and even if is started so perfectly, it would be doing so for long. Thus a photon will actually dissipate, spread out, if given enough time and distance.
When photons of light “reflect” (another dubious word) off of a mirror, a very tiny portion of the photon absorbs into the mirror. A photon can only reflect off of so many surfaces before it becomes too small to detect (another defeat of the “quantum” theory). Very small bits of the energy of a photon is taken away with each reflection.
And in reality, the “photon energy” doesn’t really “reflect”, but rather gets duplicated. The affectance that propagates from a mirror is not the same affectance that came to it. The significance of that is in the fact that once a photon strikes a mirror, a “phantom photon” is produced that continues through the mirror. A “phantom photon”, is merely a relative vacuum of affectance that proceeds along the same path that the original photon was on.
I’m not sure what you mean by “closed”. If you mean that RM:AO is more solidly defined, disallowing ambiguity and conflation of concepts and words, then yes, I agree. But RM is open to any ontological construction that bothers to exactly define its words and their concepts into a coherent understanding of the universe (or anything else for that matter). RM:AO is one particular ontological understanding of ALL of reality, but most obviously of physics where the simplest of concepts can be examined and pieced together into the larger, more familiar picture known to Science.
Space = “Potential”/“Situation”
Time = “Change”.
They aren’t “preconditions”, but the same things. Together they ARE physical reality.
Half of the only purpose in life.