Electromotive force and resistance

If the Eternal Consonance is frictionless for waves, what is the source of the heat of electrical resistance? RSI answers by separating two kinds of motion. Light is pure tension moving without friction. Mass is topological geometry, and its passage through matter meets resistance.

In RSI, electrical current is the forced flow of electron-knots through an atomic lattice. Voltage is a literal pressure gradient, a vacuum created at the positive terminal by a shortage of left-handed chiral wakes. Electrons drawn down this gradient travel through the low-pressure Acoustic Valleys between atoms.

They do not pass undisturbed. At every voltage, however small, the knots collide with the lattice's vibrations and imperfections. Each collision hands energy to the lattice and sets it vibrating harder, and that vibration is heat. The rate of heating is the current squared times the resistance (P = I²R), as James Joule measured in 1841. Heat follows the current, not the voltage, which is why power lines use high voltage and low current to cut their losses. Only a superconductor, cooled below its critical temperature, lets the knots pass without collisions. Electrical heat, in this view, is topological friction: moving knots jostling a vibrating lattice.