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=== - Micro: Spherical boundary events (absorb/emit/scatter) with action quanta h/2πh/2\pih/2π; phase/wavelength govern temporal granularity and decoherence. ===
* Mesoscopic: Poynting flux through areas 4πr24\pi r^24πr2 sets event rates; statistics → irreversible entropy production (arrow of time).
* Macro (continuum): Coarse-grain quadratic fluxes → TμνT_{\mu\nu}Tμν; null-surface focusing → Einstein curvature; Newton’s 1/r21/r^21/r2 in weak field.

==== 1. Equivalence-principle safety: Altering ambient light (even dramatically) will change decoherence/clock rates but will not measurably change gravitational acceleration of neutral test masses beyond the tiny Δm=Urad/c2\Delta m = U_{\rm rad}/c^2Δm=Urad/c2 expected by GR. ====
# Directional decoherence: Strongly anisotropic photon baths produce anisotropic decoherence (time-slicing) without inducing anisotropic free-fall. (Think: atom near a waveguide or inside a high-Q cavity.)

==== - I can write a short coarse-graining derivation: starting from your boundary-event Lagrangian, form a stress-energy from event momenta, average over micro-phases, and show it reduces to standard TμνT_{\mu\nu}Tμν (ensuring universality), then invoke Raychaudhuri → Einstein. ====
* Or I can draft a one-page “QAT compatibility statement” you can pin: “QAT respects GR/Maxwell; wavelength sets time-granularity, energy density sets curvature,” with a schematic equation chain.

Your fireworks example is perfect intuition: in the local free-fall frame the sphere stays a sphere (equivalence), while globally the congruence of trajectories focuses (curvature). QAT supplies the mechanism—boundary events on lightlike surfaces—without contradicting the data.