Photon — transverse connection wave

What you are seeing (SCHEMATIC). The excitation is a transverse connection wave — dashed because the connection is gauge-fixed (explanatory, not an observable). Its two components are locked into a helix whose handedness is the photon helicity C = ±1. Faint faces on the dual cuboctahedron carry action density (signless); the primal bipyramid stays faintly present because primal and dual are dual descriptions of one substrate. There is no matter core. Colour cycles with phase but never carries meaning alone — the dashing and helical shape duplicate it. Coin flux π/2 per triangular plaquette is a Technical-mode annotation only [evidence: pending].