One Ladder

Sound, radio and light aren't three transmission methods — they're three rungs of one fold-rate ladder, crossing a substrate boundary at the κ-line. A build is a fold-pattern; one encode voices it on any rung. Proven round-trip on all three — right here in your browser.

§0 · the ladder — one axis of fold-rate
above the κ-line the fold vibrates the FIELD (crosses vacuum, needs no medium) · below it, MATTER (needs a medium, dies in vacuum)
the vacuum sorts the ladder: the source survives, the downstream needs matter — the Perseus cluster hums a real B♭, 57 octaves below middle C
§1 · one encode — a fold → a number → a pattern
signature = → fold-pattern (VER · 8 data nibbles · CHK)
§2 · three rungs — the same pattern, three carriers