Richard J. Reyes is a controls engineer and independent researcher in industrial automation, nonlinear wave dynamics, scientific computing, and experimental analysis. His research program develops Wave Confinement Theory (WCT) — a geometric framework in which mass, force, spectra, and effective spacetime geometry emerge from confined, resonant oscillatory fields — alongside open-data analysis, physical experiments, complexity theory, AI architecture, and resonance-based control.

• Research website: accessible summaries, publication discovery, research-status labels, and the complete searchable archive.
• Technical research hub: manuscripts, equations, simulations, experiments, code, and reading maps.
• Zenodo releases: permanent DOI records and downloadable publications.

The maintained WCT research stack has a frozen, CI-verified release that pins the exact canonical-equation, SymPy, Lean, simulation, and published-registry source commits.

git clone https://github.com/rickyjreyes/rickyjreyes.github.io.git
cd rickyjreyes.github.io
make reproduce

This rebuilds and verifies the 142-object registry, full SymPy audit, Lean formal layer, deterministic finite-band simulation, regenerated figure, source hashes, expected artifact hashes, Docker environment, and Nix environment. A successful run establishes release reproducibility, not physical validation or independent replication.

• Reproduce WCT-2026.1
• About
• The research idea
• Start here — reading paths
• Main research branches
• Engineering and software
• Publications and Zenodo releases
• How to cite
• Background and contact

Richard J. Reyes is a controls engineer and independent researcher working across industrial automation, nonlinear wave dynamics, scientific computing, and experimental analysis.

He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from San José State University and works in industrial refrigeration and process automation, including PLC logic, instrumentation, alarms, sequencing, networked HMIs, commissioning, and control-system troubleshooting.

His independent research program centers on Wave Confinement Theory (WCT) and its extensions into mathematical physics, open-data analysis, experimental systems, computation, cryptography, AI architecture, and resonance-based control.

• Research website: rickyjreyes.github.io
• ORCID: 0009-0005-5975-8718
• Research hub: geometry_of_resonance
• 22 publications indexed on Zenodo (2025–2026), listed with DOIs below.

Wave Confinement Theory is a proposed geometric wave framework in which persistent physical structure emerges from confined oscillatory fields.

wave transport
    → finite-band mode selection
    → resonant confinement
    → phase and curvature locking
    → localized persistent structure

The central question is whether quantities usually treated as primitive—such as mass, force, spectra, and effective geometry—can instead arise from sustained resonance, curvature feedback, topology, and entropy-regulated coherence.

WCT is an evolving independent research framework, not an established physical theory. The public corpus separates definitions, derivations, simulations, experiments, phenomenology, and speculative extensions so each claim can be evaluated on its own terms.

The main entry point is the Geometry of Resonance / Wave Confinement Theory Research Hub, which collects the papers, equations, simulations, experiments, reading maps, and open-data tests.

If you are new to the program, read in this order:

1. The Geometry of Resonance — core overview of WCT and its proposed emergence of mass, force, and effective spacetime geometry.
2. Phase–Flux Field — observable substrate, conservation laws, finite-wavenumber selection, and shell formation.
3. Rest Energy from Density-Weighted Loop Curvature — the cleanest statement of the curvature-locking mass proposal.
4. Hard Upper Bound on Spatial Dimensionality — the mathematical argument for stable confinement being restricted to at most three spatial dimensions.

Choose a path by your background:

The NIST project uses public NIST Atomic Spectra Database exports and reports a bin-stable Fe II log-cosine line-density mode across 120, 160, and 200 bins. NIST is the data provider only; no NIST endorsement, certification, or validation is claimed.

WaveLock and CurvaChain are experimental research prototypes. They are not production cryptography and are presented with explicit security limitations and unresolved proof obligations.

• Industrial automation, PLC control logic, instrumentation, sequencing, alarming, HMIs, commissioning, and troubleshooting
• Industrial refrigeration and process-control systems
• Scientific computing, numerical simulation, signal analysis, and reproducible data workflows
• Python, R, C/C++, JavaScript, React, Docker, and Git

Twenty-two open-access publications (2025–2026), each with a permanent Zenodo DOI. Author: Richard J. Reyes (ORCID 0009-0005-5975-8718). A machine-readable index of every entry below is provided in CITATION.cff.

Browse the complete searchable and filterable publication archive.

Please cite the specific publication you used by its Zenodo DOI. A complete machine-readable index of this profile and every publication is maintained in CITATION.cff, which GitHub uses to provide repository citation information.

@misc{reyes_geometry_of_resonance_2025,
  author       = {Reyes, Richard J.},
  title        = {The Geometry of Resonance: Wave Confinement Theory and the
                  Emergence of Mass, Force, and Spacetime},
  year         = {2025},
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.15644222},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15644222}
}

Technical criticism, mathematical audit, reproducibility review, and independent replication are welcome; open an issue in the relevant repository or contact me directly.

• Education: B.S. Computer Science, San José State University
• Profession: Controls Engineer, industrial refrigeration and process automation
• Research: Independent mathematical physics and scientific computation
• Website: rickyjreyes.github.io
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rickyjreyes
• ORCID: 0009-0005-5975-8718
• Email: reyes.ricky30@gmail.com

For new readers, begin with the research website for accessible summaries, then continue to the geometry_of_resonance repository for the technical archive.