While I was trying to come up with a way to represent the electron's field in a way that could be proportional to the surface area, I imagined that each pixel (voxel?) along the surface contained a fraction of the charge/field/force/whatever, thus explaining why the force decreases as the surface area increases.  But how is each pixel informed of how much force it has?  Does it divide evenly every update?  Is there some limit past which it can no longer divide, being reduced to the smallest integral number?

So instead, suppose it's something like the way I thought light could behave - for each update, a random point is chosen along the advancing diamond, and if this point intersects with an object, the force is applied.  Then it would be the same force no matter where the intersection happened, just that your probability of being hit by that force increases as you get closer.  Though I'm not sure if that section of the the field is now absorbed or if it continues onwards.  Do electric fields become weaker as more things get pushed around by them?

I do have some notion of how a force would be implemented - I believe that it manifests in the real world as an acceleration in the opposite direction of the line connecting the two electrons,  but I now wonder if "opposite direction" isn't just the accumulated effects of multiple impacts, each imparting a unit force in x, y, or z, for a net effect that looks like a diagonal.

I also have an idea for how light could be created, though it's imperfect.  If you envision that the electric field is a set of concentric diamonds radiating outward from the electron, but then the electron moves, there would necessarily be a gap between the lines.  So what's in the gap?  I don't know.  But, suppose that for some reason this gap is filled with the opposite field as the solid areas - then what you would see is a propogating gap, effectively forming an oscillating wave, capable of interfering with itself, etc.

There's a big problem with this, however - unless you could move the electron more than one pixel at a time, the gap left behind  is going to be one pixel wide, making it an ultra-high energy wave.  And it doesn't make much sense to me that an electron that moves *more* would make the emitted light have *less* energy.  Then there's the the fact that this wave would only be propagating in on direction, in a half-diamond, which I don't believe is something light does.  But what do I know?