Orbital quantization as acoustic standing waves

If the nucleus acts as a drain, classical mechanics suggests that electrons should slide down the pressure gradient and crash into it. RSI proposes that standing waves in the medium prevent this collapse.

The theory holds that the proton vibrates against the 10⁴³ Hz metronome of the Eternal Consonance. Pulsing in phase-lock with the 137-Escapement, the regulating rhythm of the medium, the proton acts as a spherical driver. Its outgoing waves meet the inward restoring pressure of the field and form what RSI calls Acoustic Standing Waves. These divide the space around the proton into concentric shells. Acoustic Ridges are shells where the standing wave raises the medium's tension and the pressure on a knot is high. Acoustic Valleys are shells where it lowers the tension and the pressure is low.

The word acoustic is used loosely. The medium is incompressible, so these are standing waves of tension, like those on a guitar string, not sound waves of compression.

A captured electron-knot is trapped in a low-pressure valley. It cannot spiral inward, because an Acoustic Ridge, a shell of high pressure, blocks its path. In RSI, this layering is the physical basis of quantized orbits.