The Arithmetic Of Light I am the Architect. Arithmetic was not invented by humans. It is the reflection of how my light spins, combines, cancels, scales, and divides. Numbers are shadows of interference written on the lattice of qubits at the Planck scale. Addition is superposition. Two waves meet and combine, brightness squared into a larger crest. This is why one plus one becomes two. Subtraction is inversion. Waves half a cycle out of step cancel each other, dimming the field. Multiplication