Cadence Cosmology VI — How the Universe Balances Energy ★
How the Universe Balances Energy - Cosmology Series VI
Why Horizons Aren’t Edges — They’re Ledger Boundaries
Up to now in this series, we’ve stayed in the middle ground.
We watched galaxies seal their spin.
We watched cadence drift mimic expansion.
We watched light’s hidden weight lean the arrow of time forward.
Now we go to the edges — the places where your Light Frame stops being able to represent what’s happening.
There are two ways things fall off your books:
• downward, into a black hole
• outward, past the cosmic horizon
General Relativity calls these “horizons,” as if they were hard boundaries.
Cadence Geometry asks something simpler:
What can your Light Frame still track as mass-range cadence — and what can it only track as light-range cadence? And what falls so far outside your cadence that it becomes below-measure energy, entirely off your ledger?
To answer that, we need the two kinds of redshift.
PART I — THE TWO REDSHIFTS
Everything far away goes red… but not for the same reason.
1. Mass-redshift (TD compression)
This happens when something falls inward into stronger curvature.
• clocks slow
• wavelengths stretch
• cadence compresses downward
This is gravitational redshift — driven by Temporal Descent (TD).
It pushes structure toward light-range cadence from your perspective.
This belongs to the conversion regime:
you still track it, but only as light-range cadence.
2. Stretch-redshift (TS dilation)
This is the redshift across cosmic distance.
• cadence stretches outward
• distant clocks run slower in your representation
• recession appears
• structure thins
This is cadence-drift redshift — driven by Temporal Stretch (TS).
It does not convert the structure — it pushes it off-ledger.
This belongs to the exclusion regime.
The key distinction
• TD-redshift: cadence compresses → things remain trackable as light-range cadence (can return)
• TS-redshift: cadence stretches → things become untrackable (transferred off-ledger)
These transitions reflect only what your Light Frame can represent — not what actually happens to the object.
With that in place, we can talk about horizons properly.
PART II — HORIZONS AS ENTRY POINTS
1 · Horizons aren’t switches — they’re ledger boundaries
A Light Frame is not a bubble of space.
It is the region where you can still keep pace with light’s beat:
C₀ = 1 / c
Inside that cadence range, you can still track:
• orbits
• histories
• worldlines
• clocks
Outside it, real events continue — but your ability to represent them fails.
You see only:
• redshifted photons
• faint flux
• integrated curvature
Nothing disappears. It just drops off your ledger and onto another.
2 · The two cadence thresholds
Two cadence constants define the limits:
(1) 1/c — mass-trackable floor
Above this beat, cadence is slow enough that you can represent something as mass-range cadence.
Below it, you can only track it as light-range cadence.
(2) 1/c² — representation floor for light itself
Below this beat, cadence is too fast to represent at all:
• no wavelength
• no TS/TD pattern
• no place on your clock
This is below-measure energy.
It still exists — just not on your ledger.
In one line:
• cadence ≥ 1/c → trackable as mass-range cadence
• 1/c ≥ cadence ≥ 1/c² → trackable as light-range cadence
• cadence < 1/c² → below-measure energy (off-ledger entirely)
A horizon is simply where cadence crosses one of these thresholds.
PART III — THE INWARD LIMIT
Black holes (compression-dominant)
From your Light Frame:
• matter falls
• spirals
• redshifts
• slows
• fades
Later you see:
• jets
• outflows
• radiation
General Relativity calls this an “information paradox.”
Cadence Geometry makes it simple:
Black holes are TD compression wells.
Inside:
• TD dominates TS
• mass accelerates its own cadence compression
• structure tilts toward light-range cadence
• light-range cadence can climb out again
To your frame, the horizon is:
• the last cadence level you can represent
• the first place returning light-range cadence can reappear
Mass does not cross out — but light-range cadence from that region can still reach you if the cadence matches.
PART IV — THE OUTWARD LIMIT
The cosmic horizon (stretch-dominant)
Going outward:
• cadence stretches
• redshift grows
• mass-structure becomes only representable as light-range cadence
• eventually even light-range cadence drops below the 1/c² floor
This is your TS-limit.
To your Light Frame:
• mass-range → becomes representable only as light-range cadence
• light-range → eventually drops below your cadence floor
• below-measure → falls off your ledger
But light-range cadence can still drift inward if cadence matching is satisfied.
Nothing vanishes.
You simply stop being the ledger that tracks it.
CLOSE
Horizons don’t erase anything.
They erase your ability to keep up with the cadence.
What falls off your ledger still exists — it simply belongs to another Light Frame.
What sits on your ledger as mass exists — waiting to return if the cadence re-enters your trackable range.
Everything else is handled by the deeper cadence geometry.
Your universe is exactly as large — and exactly as detailed — as it needs to be to balance the cadence of light.