Full session notes are stored in Google Drive and have not yet been converted to web format. The key results from this session are captured in the V7 framework document and will be written up in F-6: Photons and Pilot Waves.
The photon is not something extra created at emission. It is the field line reorganization event itself, propagating outward at c. When an electron drops from shell n to shell n-1, its Lissajous footprint shrinks. The mismatch between old and new field line geometry propagates outward along every field line as a torsional disturbance — the kink. The kink is the boundary between old and new geometry. E=hf is the energy stored in that geometric difference.
The electron's internal frequency is approximately 10²⁰ Hz. A typical atomic transition takes approximately 10⁻⁸ seconds — about 10¹² electron cycles. The transition is glacially slow from the electron's internal perspective. At every moment the electron's self-trapped wave has completed its full internal oscillation many times before anything geometrically significant has changed. The Lissajous figure rotates and shrinks as a solid object, not as a wave deforming internally.
The rate at which the electron descends through the shell energy difference sets the rotation rate of the Lissajous figure during collapse, which sets the emitted frequency. h is the rotational inertia of the electron structure resisting that descent — the mechanical resistance of the self-trapped wave to being rotated.
The scout cone fans out ahead of the kink, covering potentially millions of electrons. Each receives a faint torsional pre-disturbance at the photon frequency. Most are in random phase — nudged slightly but below the deadband. Some, by chance, are close to the right phase. The scout pushes them closer to resonance. By the time the kink body arrives, a population has been partially phase-aligned. The kink couples most strongly to the most-aligned electron and is absorbed whole.
For absorption to complete, the target electron must match on three dimensions simultaneously: frequency match, phase alignment, and handedness match. The photon is a highly specific key. All three dimensions must exceed the deadband threshold. Probability of absorption is the product of all three match probabilities filtered through the deadband.