MID/QC Applied Substrate Series 1 - Substrate Level Rerouting: A New Model of Electricity in Computation

Electricity is traditionally modeled as the movement of charge carriers through conductive media. In the MID/QC framework, this interpretation is replaced with a substrate‑first model in which electrical behavior emerges from coherence‑guided routing within the quantized substrate. Substrate Level Rerouting formalizes electricity as a coherence‑gradient phenomenon rather than a charge‑flow mechanism, providing a unified explanation for conduction, resistance, switching, and computational energy limits. This paper establishes the foundational architecture for substrate‑native electrical modeling and anchors the Applied Substrate Series.