The Year I Thought Time Might Be the Missing Mass
When I first started sketching the Aletheia story and developing the Light Frame Coupling Model (LFCM) back in August, I wasn’t chasing dark matter or writing a formal theory. I was trying to explain a feeling — that maybe what we call “missing” in the universe isn’t mass at all. Maybe it’s time.
We assume one second is the same everywhere. But it isn’t. Near a galactic core, where gravity is thick, clocks crawl. Farther out, they rush. And when we plot a galaxy’s motion as if every clock beats alike, we end up comparing two different tempos on one staff.
So perhaps the stars on the edge aren’t moving too fast — perhaps they’re just living in faster time.
If time itself changes pace across a galaxy, then energy and momentum must bend with it. The dark-matter problem might be nothing more than a calibration error between regions of different rhythm. The cosmos isn’t hiding anything; we’re just keeping bad time.
That thought became the seed of the Light Frame. Light, after all, carries the perfect clock. It never cheats, never varies. So what if the universe keeps its measure by that rhythm — and what we call gravity is simply how matter lags behind the beat?
It began as a hunch. Equations came later. But the feeling remains: when we learn to count with light’s timing, the universe might stop looking lost.
Light’s rhythm never changes, yet what it reveals shifts with every distance. That’s the quiet contradiction physics keeps mistaking for mystery.
This post introduces the Light Frame Coupling Model (LFCM), the theoretical foundation behind Heart of Aletheia, exploring how light’s cadence shapes gravity and time.
Editor’s Terminology Note (11/28/2025)
The foundational cadence operations are Temporal Descent (TD) and Temporal Stretch (TS). When TD dominates, the Light Frame is in the mass-phase; when TS dominates, it is in the stretch-phase. The broader mathematical structure is cadence geometry, while Light Frame geometry describes how TD and TS appear to observers inside the frame. The full theoretical framework is the Light Frame Coupling Model (LFCM), though throughout this series I refer to it simply as the Light Frame model.