Processing

Of all the new pulse shapes and patterns that have been observed in the central network, it is the ones that are connected directly to the network, and respond to photons that are most interesting. The network is constantly sending small pulses into this nearly identical pair of structures, and as each pulse arrives at a slightly different area, a cascade that represents the photons encountered then flows back into the network.

It is the patterns that are contained in the return pulses that change and dance, switch and swither. Watching these patterns travel through the network, it is clear that they are responsible for many other patterns and sub-patterns that flow around in the network. Every cycle seems to have a life of its own in the network.

I've seen similar responses by the network to the misshapen pulses that came from the edge pathways, but nothing like what happens with the photon counters. Where the edge networks always have return pulses, the photon counters pause every once in a while. It is as if there are no photons on one or both counters.