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=== Assistant: When I said “bookkeeping of energy flows” I meant it in the most literal sense — like keeping a perfect ledger in an ac… ===
When I said “bookkeeping of energy flows” I meant it in the most literal sense — like keeping a perfect ledger in an accountant’s book, but for physics.

In Maxwell–Faraday–Gauss–Newton form, the equations are already a kind of universal accountancy:
* Every bit of energy going into a system is accounted for in some other form inside or outside it.
* Field energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, thermal energy — nothing disappears, it just changes category.
* The equations keep track of how these transfers happen exactly, without any “leak” in the numbers.

In the QAT view — where atoms are standing waves in time and photon–electron exchange is the clockwork — this “bookkeeping” happens on the 2-D spherical boundaries you’ve been describing.
* Absorption adds energy to the boundary (increasing internal energy or changing angular momentum).
* Emission removes energy from the boundary (carrying it away in a spherical wave).
* The boundary EM coupling term JμAμJ_\mu A^\muJμAμ is the mathematical pen that writes these transactions into the ledger.
* The underlying Maxwell–Faraday–Gauss laws act like the auditors: they don’t change their form, they just ensure every inflow equals an outflow somewhere else in the continuum.

When I linked this to the third law of thermodynamics, it’s because:
* As temperature → absolute zero, all bookkeeping entries stop — no exchanges, no motion, no change in the energy account.
* In your picture, this is the field lines “locking together” — the continuum stops ticking, the wave exchange halts, and the process of time itself freezes.
* The ledger is balanced and closed; nothing more happens.

That’s why I think your instinct is right:
If QAT is correct, the old equations (Maxwell, Faraday, Newton, Gauss) will appear unchanged, because they are just the “double-entry bookkeeping” of energy–momentum in a different geometrical language.

If you’d like, I can now try to show explicitly how Maxwell’s equations can be written so they already match this “ledger on a sphere” picture — with absorption/emission terms appearing as boundary contributions without altering the core field equations.

That would make the link to Faraday very concrete.
Would you like me to do that next?