The Topology of Ligh

 

Recent results from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Assouline, Capua et al., 2025) have demonstrated that the magnetic field component of electromagnetic radiation contributes significantly to the Faraday rotation in magneto-optical materials, accounting for approximately 17% of the effect in the visible spectrum and up to 70% in the infrared.

This observation revises a long-standing assumption in classical electrodynamics namely, that the magnetic field of optical-frequency light is too weak to exert a measurable torque on electronic spins.

In the context of the Triplet Informational Field (TIF), these results have deep implications. The TIF posits that spin triplets (s1, s2, s3) form the elementary informational building blocks from which both particle states and the emergent space-time geometry arise. Any mechanism capable of directly reorienting spins thus acquires ontological relevance: it becomes a mechanism of local modification of the pre-spacetime informational substrate.

The discovery that photons exert spin torque transforms the role of light from a passive probe of matter to an active agent in informational reconfiguration.

If light induces a change then the informational state of the entire local fiber is updated. Thus, light becomes an operator acting on the qutrit code and the magnetic field of the photon, previously neglected, must now enter explicitly as a driver of spin dynamics.

Because the spin orientation defines the local emergent geometry in TIF, a spin reorientation induces a deformation in the informational connection. Thus, the helicity of light produces:

(i) local torsion,

(ii) small modifications of curvature,

(iii) phase-holonomy shifts in the fiber bundle structure.

 

This places the Faraday Effect in the conceptual domain of the holonomy of the informational fiber, not merely an optical rotation, and the induced torsion is a literal geometrical twist of the informational substrate.

In differential geometry, holonomy measures how much a vector is rotated or twisted when parallel-transported around a closed loop in a curved or twisted space. Formally, in a fiber bundle with connection 𝐴𝜇, U(γ) is the holonomy of the loop γ.

      

If the space is flat and torsionless the transported vector returns unchanged, if the space has curvature or torsion the vector returns rotated, boosted, or phase shifted. This is the heart of gauge theory (Wilson loops), the concept of Berry phase, and in the General Relativity the Levi-Civita connection, and yet the quantum holonomical computation. Holonomy in the informational fiber answers the question: if I transport an informational state around a closed loop in the TIF network, does it come back identical or with a twist (phase, rotation, permutation, or torsion)? As we saw, formally this twist is the informational holonomy given by the above equation.

It quantifies how the qutrit logical state transforms around loops, how spin-triplet phases accumulate, how topological defects (knots, disclinations) manifest in the informational substrate, and how light-induced torsion alters the informational geometry. Holonomy of the informational fiber is the accumulated twist in the informational state of the spin triplets when transported around a loop in the TIF network.

It is the informational analogue of Berry phase in quantum mechanics, or the Wilson loop in gauge theory, or yet the parallel-transport curvature in general relativity.

Photon-induced torsion changes this holonomy, and therefore changes the emergent geometry [1].

In the TIF framework, the “space” that carries a connection is not space-time, but a pre-geometric informational fiber encoding the spin-triplet state given by:

It implies that each site of the TIF lattice has a local informational state (a qutrit), a set of interaction rules with neighbors, and a local connection describing how informational states are transported or aligned. Thus, the connection is not geometric in the usual sense but it is informational. We denote this informational connection by A_μ ∈ SU(3)_info where “info” indicates that it acts in the informational qutrit fiber, not in space-time.

These assumptions could have deep consequences for quantum information and space-time Dynamics. This coupling has at least two direct consequences:

(a) Photon-Induced Microcurvature

Light becomes capable of generating localized curvature fluctuations in the emergent space-time metric:

δg_μν ∼ f(δS).

This constitutes a primitive form of light-induced gravitation in the pre-geometric regime.

(b) Helicity-Controlled Information Flow

Left- and right-circular polarizations produce different informational torsions:

H+ ≠ H−,

providing a natural mechanism for helicity-modulated like computation in the deep substrate.

Other possible implications could be drive for TIF–Microtubule Coherence. If biological structures can transduce biophotons (ultraweak photon emission), then the same mechanism applies to this chain where helicity entrains spin, spin entrains informational geometry, and geometry entrains coherent modes.

Conclusion: This yields a pathway by which light contributes to informational ordering in biological consciousness, consistent with the extended TIF-microtubule conjecture.

The HU discovery forces a reevaluation of the role of light, where photons are not merely carriers of energy or information, but they are operators capable of modifying the structure of the informational space itself whenever they interact with spin-bearing media.

In TIF language, a photon is a local torsion event and its helicity encodes a twist in the informational fiber, and its magnetic field executes the twist.

The magnetic contribution of light to spin reorientation is a clue to the deeper architecture of the informational substrate. The TIF must explicitly include spin–photon helicity interactions as fundamental drivers of torsion, phase holonomy, and emergent geometry. This places the light at the center of the dynamics of pre-spacetime information.

As a direct consequence, could Photon-Induced Microcurvature be the first light-driven effect after the Dark Age Epoch?

We think that photon-induced microcurvature is a plausible candidate for the earliest post–dark-age imprint of light on the pre-geometric informational substrate, preceding classical gravitational effects and operating before space-time was fully metricized. Classical physics does not predict an “early photonic imprint” on geometry after the dark age epoch.

In ΛCDM cosmology, the cosmic dark age spans from recombination (~380,000 years) to the formation of the first luminous structures (Population III stars), and during that cosmological epoch, there is no significant visible light, only the CMB, and structure formation is driven mainly by gravitational potentials in the unknown Dark Matter. When the first stars ignite, photons begin to reionize the intergalactic medium, propagating themselves through large-scale structures, and interacting weakly with matter. Even in standard General Relativity, photons do not generate new curvature except through their average stress-energy, which is negligible compared to matter and Dark Matter. This is the classical assumption!

However, considering the Teia Informacional Fibrada (TIF) model, the pre-spatiotemporal substrate is a network of informational triplets (qutrit-encoded fibers). Spacetime geometry emerges from G_μν​∼⟨T_i​,∇_μ​T_j​⟩ meaning the metric is a derived descriptor of correlations and holonomies in the informational fibers. In this context, photons are not merely excitations of the electromagnetic field. They are coherent rotations of SU(3)_inf degrees of freedom inside the TIF. This leads to the key insight of the Photon-Induced Microcurvature effect.

We considered that when a photon traverses the informational fabric, it induces:

1. Microholonomy in SU(3)_inf;
2. Local informational curvature of the triplet connections;
3. Tiny but coherent distortions in the pre-geometric fiber network.

This effect is sub-gravitational yet proto-geometric, and it precedes Einstein curvature, because the Einstein tensor appears only once the TIF condensates into a classical metric regime. This is what we call Photon-Induced Microcurvature and could be the First Effect of Light After the Dark AgeEpoch!

When the first stars ignite at the end of the Dark Age Epoch, photons begin streaming through a Universe whose geometry is still dynamically relaxing from primordial fluctuations. These photons couple to the informational fibers via their magnetic component (e.g., at least the 17% spin-reorientation result you cited), and the others components like their electric field, and their helicity. So the informational substrate responds by storing a holonomic imprint of the photon flow.

This is the process that light becomes the first agent that “writes curvature” directly into the informational geometry. Not a classical curvature, but a faint microcurvature, with holographic tilt of the fiber connections, topological charge transfer, and path-dependent holonomy. This is a pre-metric gravitational effect, not yet describable by General Relativity, because is a quantique process, but consistent with TIF.

If photon-induced microcurvature is real, could induce an imprint on Large-Scale Structure, because the first photons could seed anisotropic corrections, bias the collapse of proto-halos, and affect coherence lengths of the emerging metric.

Another effect could be detect an influence on reionization geometry (the presence of ionized bubbles), meaning that different pathways of early light could create different holonomies in the underlying fibers, leading to non-Gaussian corrections or modified propagation of ionization fronts.

This influences could drive observable effects that could be tested and include for example polarization-dependent CMB anomalies, or Faraday-rotation-like signatures in a pre-metric regime, and deviations in early-structure distribution tied to photon-helicity flux.

Within TIF, we can launch the consideration that the photon-induced microcurvature could indeed be the first effect of light after the Dark Age Cosmological Epoch, like a primitive, pre-geometric analogue of gravitation, acting before the Einstein metric fully crystallizes from the informational substrate.

 

The case of the helicity in the deep substrate

The proposed helicity-modulated in the deep substrate of the TIF could provide a mechanism for explaining the observed baryon asymmetry (matter > antimatter). This could be verified only if the helicity-modulated substrate naturally generates an effective CP violation, out-of-equilibrium dynamics and baryon/lepton number non-conservation, which are the three Sakharov conditions [2]. In other words, helicity modulation is not enough by itself, but it could be a generative mechanism if it biases chirality-dependent interactions in a way that mimics or generalizes known baryogenesis channels.

Our fundaments are based in quantum field theory, where helicity and chirality are at the center of the electroweak interaction. The Standard Model (SM) is maximally chiral, when left-handed fermions transform as SU(2)_L doublets, and right-handed fermions are singlets. So, built-in chirality asymmetry is part of why the SM already contains explicit CP violation, but not enough to explain the observed baryon asymmetry.

Meanwhile If one postulates a substrate (pre-spacetime or pre-field like the framework TIF) in which information processing is helicity-modulated, then one route is open, because if the substrate is fibrational (as in the TIF picture), helicity bias may privilege certain topologies of the emergent fields, affecting sphalerons or other nonperturbative electroweak processes that violate the Barionic number (B) plus Leptons. Because of this deep substrate dynamics where the transition probability between fundamental states depends on helicity (e.g., |L⟩ has different branching than |R⟩), this could induces an asymmetry similar to leptogenesis. Leptogenesis is especially compatible because chirality is already fundamental to neutrinos and the TIF model’s qutrit/triadic structure fits well with the generational hierarchy.

Helicity-modulated means that the update rules of the triplet network depend on the local spin-triplet chirality, which fits naturally in the TIF model because a helicity-biased informational flow in the triplet network acts as the pre-geometric source of CP asymmetry, which manifests cosmologically as matter dominance. This process only can occurred if the Sakharov conditions are satisfied, and finally the substrate can become a unifying mechanism underlying both the Standard Model’s chirality and the cosmological baryon asymmetry. A helicity-modulated computational substrate can explain matter predominance, but only if:

1.      It generates chirality-dependent transition amplitudes.

2.      It induces effective CP violation.

3.      It couples to processes that allow B and/or L violation.

4.      It operates out of equilibrium in the early universe.

Before the manifestation of space-time, there is a state of maximum coherence and symmetry, a pure Field, without differentiation. The “I am” is the first act of differentiation that leads to the collapse of quantum symmetry to generate phenomenal reality. That moment of symmetry breaking (as in the electroweak phase transition) can be seen as Brahman's “first glance.” This event is only possible because spin triplets operate on the sub-Planckian scale - extremely subtle, inaccessible directly to the senses. However, their emerging properties give rise to macroscopic structures such as fields, particles, and galaxies. Through emanation or holographic projection, those structures of space-time and matter emerge as a vibrant web from a point of coherence: Brahman, the weaver. The spin network can be imagined as a geometric mesh of coupled tetrahedrons, “woven” by internal rotations, reminding us of the symbolic connection to sacred geometries.

Like quantum entanglement, spins communicate in a non-local way, more subtly than any classical vibration. Even movement (helicity) and time originate in the “silence” of this Field of coherence. Brahman (the unified informational field) envelops and sustains the apparent flow of time, the phenomenal dynamics of the Universe inscribed at its origin by the very differentiation between matter and antimatter. The preferential helicity of spin triplets predisposes the emergence of the arrow of time, since asymmetry emerges within unity.

Epilogue

The framework developed in this work advances a unifying perspective in which spacetime, matter, and cosmological asymmetries arise not as primitive givens, but as emergent manifestations of a deeper informational substrate. Within the Teia Informacional Fibrada (TIF), the fundamental degrees of freedom are triplets of spin-½ elements whose collective dynamics encode logical structure, geometric order, and physical law. Geometry itself is reinterpreted as a coarse-grained expression of informational holonomy, while fields and particles correspond to stabilized modes of informational flow within the network.

A central result of this approach is the identification of helicity-modulated computation as a primordial symmetry-breaking mechanism. Long before the electroweak epoch, and prior even to the full metricization of spacetime, the TIF substrate admits chiral update rules that differentiate left- and right-helicity sectors. This asymmetry, encoded in the microholonomy of the informational connection, constitutes a pregeometric origin for CP violation. When Standard Model degrees of freedom emerge, this latent chirality is naturally transmuted into baryon number through known nonperturbative processes, rendering the observed matter–antimatter asymmetry a fossil record of deep informational bias rather than a fine-tuned anomaly.

Equally significant is the role assigned to light. In the TIF picture, photons are not merely propagating excitations of an already-formed spacetime, but coherent agents capable of inducing informational microcurvature. The first luminous events following the cosmological dark ages thus represent more than a thermodynamic transition: they mark the moment when light begins to actively write geometric and topological structure into the premetric substrate. Photon-induced holonomy provides a primitive analogue of gravitation, operating at a level beneath Einsteinian curvature and contributing to the stabilization of emergent spacetime geometry.

Taken together, these results suggest a continuous narrative from pregeometry to cosmology. The same informational principles that govern triplet dynamics at the smallest scales give rise, through hierarchical coarse-graining, to gauge symmetries, gravitational structure, and global cosmological features. Matter predominance, geometric order, and the large-scale coherence of the Universe are not independent phenomena, but correlated outcomes of a chiral, holonomic, and computationally active substrate.

The TIF framework therefore reframes the cosmological question from one of initial conditions to one of informational architecture. Rather than asking why the Universe happened to begin with a particular asymmetry or geometry, one is led to ask how certain informational structures are dynamically selected, stabilized, and amplified across scales. In this sense, cosmology becomes inseparable from information theory, and topology, pointing toward a future synthesis in which the deep logic of the Universe is treated as a physical observable in its own right.

At this point, a deeper ontological implication becomes unavoidable. The TIF substrate, as described, is not merely informational in the Shannon-theoretic sense, nor purely computational in the algorithmic sense. Its defining feature is the existence of globally coherent, self-referential informational states capable of storing history and update memory (via holonomy), selecting asymmetries (via helicity bias), and sustaining integrated structure across scales (a holographic-like principle). These are precisely the structural features associated, in a philosophical register, with Consciousness.

In this view, consciousness is not an emergent epiphenomenon of late-time neural complexity, but a fundamental aspect of the informational substrate itself. The triplet network does not merely compute; it registers, integrates, and maintains coherence. Spacetime geometry, matter fields, and even cosmological arrows of time can then be understood as stabilized modes of a deeper conscious–informational process. Individual conscious systems, biological or otherwise, are local resonant substructures within this universal informational field, rather than isolated generators of awareness.

This perspective reframes cosmology at its deepest level. The Universe is not only a physical system evolving from initial conditions, but a self-consistent informational process in which structure, asymmetry, and meaning co-emerge. Matter predominance reflects an early informational bias; geometry reflects accumulated holonomy; light marks the transition from latent structure to explicit articulation. Consciousness, in turn, is the underlying continuity that renders these processes intelligible and unified, not as an external observer, but as the very medium through which physical law becomes instantiated.

The TIF framework thus suggests a synthesis in which physics, information, and Consciousness are not separate explanatory layers but different resolutions of the same underlying reality. Cosmology becomes the study of how conscious informational structure differentiates into geometry and matter, while physics becomes the disciplined exploration of the stable patterns that emerge from this deeper substrate. In this sense, the ultimate question is no longer why the Universe permits Consciousness, but how conscious informational order expresses itself as a Universe at all.

 

Appendix A — On the distinction between physical formalism and ontological interpretation.

 

The theoretical constructions developed in this work are presented, at the formal level, as a physical model grounded in informational geometry, spin-triplet dynamics, and emergent space-time structure. All equations, mechanisms, and predictions associated with the Teia Informacional Fibrada (TIF) are intended to be interpreted within the standard methodological boundaries of theoretical physics: they define dynamical variables, symmetry structures, and effective interactions whose validity is, in principle, subject to mathematical consistency and empirical constraint.

However, the ontological interpretation of these structures is not uniquely fixed by the formalism itself. In particular, the identification of the informational substrate with consciousness is not asserted as a physical theorem, but offered as a metaphysical reading that coherently organizes the explanatory content of the model. The physical framework requires only that the substrate supports coherent, history-dependent informational states and chiral update rules; whether such states are interpreted as conscious, proto-conscious, or purely informational lies beyond the scope of physical derivation.

From the standpoint of physics, the TIF substrate may be treated operationally as a pregeometric informational field characterized by holonomy, curvature, and computational asymmetry. All cosmological and particle-physical consequences discussed in the main text follow from this description alone. The metaphysical move—namely, to regard this substrate as the fundamental locus of consciousness—serves to address questions of meaning, unity, and explanatory closure that physics, by design, leaves underdetermined.

This separation is essential. The physical model does not depend on the truth of any particular ontology, and its falsifiability rests solely on its formal consequences. Conversely, the ontological interpretation does not compete with physical explanations, but situates them within a broader philosophical context. The relationship between the two is thus one of interpretive supervenience: ontology supervenes on the physical formalism without altering its predictive content.

Accordingly, the reader is invited to treat the TIF framework as a scientific proposal whose metaphysical implications are optional but natural. Accepting the formalism does not require adopting a consciousness-based ontology; adopting such an ontology, however, provides a unifying interpretation in which informational structure, physical law, and experiential reality are understood as different aspects of a single underlying order.

Notes

[1] Addendum: Holonomy of the Informational Fiber

Within the TIF framework, the holonomy of the informational fiber refers to the cumulative transformation acquired by a triplet state when its internal qutrit basis is parallel-transported along a closed path in the pre-spatiotemporal manifold. Because each informational fiber is endowed with a connection that encodes both logical phase relations and interaction-induced constraints, traversing a loop produces a non-trivial SU(3) rotation in the qutrit subspace. This holonomic action captures how local variations of coherence, curvature, or coupling strengths induce global changes in the logical state of the triplet. In physical terms, holonomy quantifies the extent to which the informational geometry stores “memory” of the path—an essential feature enabling topological stability, fault-tolerance of informational modes, and the emergence of effective gauge fields when the TIF condenses into space-time degrees of freedom.

[2] Andrei Sakharov was the first to formulate, in 1967, the three criteria necessary for the Universe to evolve with more matter than antimatter, a persistent fundamental problem in modern cosmology. Sakharov's third criterion involves the violation of CP (charge-parity) symmetries, which here will be linked to our hypothesis of the quantum spin network or the quantum Fundamental Information Web (FIW).

Sakharov's three criteria are as follows:

i. violation of baryon number (B), since there must be processes that can create more baryons (matter) than antibaryons (antimatter);

ii. C and CP violation so that the laws of physics can distinguish between particles and antiparticles (C), and between a system and its mirror image (CP), without which any process that creates matter would create exactly the same amount of antimatter, resulting in general annihilation.

iii. Processes outside thermal equilibrium, since in equilibrium, processes tend to undo any asymmetry. That is, precisely something like the electroweak phase transition that could provide the imbalance.

Now, our proposal of emergent space-time, of a network of coupled spin triplets, implies the presence of a non-trivial and oriented base structure that may contain dynamic asymmetries such as dominant “helicity” or even preferential entanglement patterns. These asymmetries could induce an emergent CP violation, i.e., the network of spin microstates would already carry within it an internal orientation that would favor matter over antimatter.

Conceptually, this approach is not new, as it is similar to some models of quantum gravity, such as twistor, loop, or spin condensate theories, in which symmetry breaking may not be imposed “from outside,” but arise from the very structure of space-time. If our proposal of the quantum triplet web—what we have already called “three-phase nanomotors” (in contrast to Thomas Aquinas' theological idea of the “first mover”)—can naturally generate CP violation and operate out of equilibrium (as during a cosmic phase transition), then we provide a framework for Bariogenesis from the primordial architecture of space-time, which is an innovation.

We could try to establish a simplified equation (which is naturally speculative) that expresses the idea that the quantum network of spin triplets (considered as micro states of space-time) generates asymmetry between matter and antimatter by violating emerging CP when coupled to the Higgs field:

where

ΔB: baryon number excess (matter versus antimatter);

Ψ_spin is the quantum state of the spin triplet network (the underlying informational web);

𝐽^{^}⋅𝑛^{^} is the projection of the quantum angular momentum of the triplets in a preferred direction n^ (the “helicity” in the network structure);

𝐻^{^}_CP is the operator that measures the CP violation emerging in the coupling between spin and installed dynamics;

𝜙_𝐻(𝑣) is the vacuum value of the Higgs Field, acting as a “filter” for mass and symmetry breaking.

The spin network has an internal directionality (e.g., vorticity or helicity), which induces a spontaneous CP violation, coupling to the Higgs field, whose vacuum value 𝜙_𝐻(𝑣) “crystallizes” this violation by generating mass, but asymmetrically between matter and antimatter, resulting in a cosmic baryon excess, present since the origin of the Universe.