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Translation is the instantiation through which "Propagation" manifests at the most elementary level of Physical Reality.

It is the second fundamental Mode of manifestation of the Elementary Action, its second Component. The second of the Modes of Physical Action.

From a causal perspective, we can represent it as the Operator Translation, the Operational Agent responsible for the emergence of inhomogeneities in the distributions of the spatial (linear) orientations of the elementary spatial fluctuations in the Elementary Field.

At the same time, from the variational point of view, Translation appears as inhomogeneities (divergence) in the distributions of the spatial (linear) orientations of the minute spatial fluctuations of the Elementary Field resonating around the Planck scale.

Translation is the way in which the Elementary Field reacts to the formation and presence of inhomogeneities / gradients in the Perturbation Mode of Action, produced by the Action of the Fundamental Force on the Field, the way in which the Field responds to restore homogeneity in the temporal distributions of the Elementary Events.

The causal expression and the variational manifestation—two sides of the same coin—of this Mode of Elementary Action are described by the Principle of Action and Reaction.

Translation is the root of Motion, encompassing both inertia and acceleration, and thus the foundation of kinetic Phenomena, particularly the kinetic aspects of gravity.

The causal perspective

Let us hold firm to what was stated regarding the causal perspective in the previous section, dedicated to Perturbation, namely that:

• the causal perspective focuses on the active aspect of the Source’s Agency,
• the Operators of Reality are functional / operational derivations of the Primary Agent, of the Fundamental Force acting upon the Elementary Field,
• the Operators are Entities not in the classical sense, but in their function of producing Existence, a Phenomenon—something that occurs, something that exists in the very act of generating Existence.

From the causal point of view, Translation can be represented as the Operator Translation, a functional derivation of the Source of Reality that organizes the reactions of the Elementary Field produced by Perturbation into fluxes (reorientation of the elementary spatial fluctuations), directed toward the restoration of homogeneity and isotropy within the Elementary Field.

The variational perspective

Symmetrically, from the variational perspective, Translation manifests as the reaction of the Field to Perturbations, to gradients (Micro-gradients) in the temporal distributions of the minute elementary spatial fluctuations resonating around the Planck scale.

When, in these pages, I speak of Micro-gradients, Micro-flows, Micro-torsions (or Micro-vorticities), Micro-states, I am referring to gradients, flows (divergence), torsions (rotor, curl), states, within the dynamics of the Elementary Field at the level of individual "event-points"—infinitesimal portions of the Field which, for the sake of treatment and visualization, we may consider as point-like. But they are not truly point-like. As I have already emphasized on several occasions, in this model there is no place for point-like Entities, Events, Relations, Processes or Structures. Everything possesses a spatial and temporal extension, however infinitely small. We must therefore not forget that these dimensional resonances, like micro-bubbles forming within the dynamics of the Field, though extremely small, always represent extended regions in three-dimensional Space, with an evolution in Time, representable within the four-dimensional continuum so central to relativistic physics.

Thus, not grains of Space and Time, but rather a kind of bubbles, "convective cells" in the elementary dynamics of the Field—pulsating regions, so to speak—that tend to exhibit an average extension and a pulsation dynamics in Time comparable to the Planck scale lengths and durations. Expansion and contraction. Force and resistance. Action and constraint. The whole of mechanics concentrated within an infinity of dynamic micro-structures that embody the dynamics of the Field and project it into an initial seed of discreteness (Principle of Individuation) within the fundamental continuity.

An infinity of dynamic micro-structures that, through their incessant activity, sustain and support the Existence and the Essence / Form of the ever-changing structuration of the Elementary Field. This structuration manifests as Structures of Information—interacting, propagating, and conserving within Space-time—both in the medium-dimensional domain (Vortices/Particles, Waves and their Interactions that compose Ordinary Matter) and in the large domain (Vortices/Dark Halos, Dark Waves and their Interactions that compose the Dark Matter/Dark Energy side of the Universe).

Here we must focus on what happens to the Field under the incessant Action of the Fundamental Force in the form of the Perturbation Operator. On the Variations produced by the internal interaction between Force and Field, between Agent and Acted, on what occurs in this interaction—on the Events I call Elementary precisely because they represent the most elementary form of Existence, the simplest occurrences that can manifest within Reality and that lie at the foundation of its very existence. This is the essence of the sub‑Process of Creation, as part of the Process of Formation of Reality.

As already stated countless times in this work, by Elementary Events I mean the tiny elementary spatial fluctuations of the Field resonating around the Planck scale. I use the term "spatial" even though Space, the spatial dimensions, technically emerge at an evolutionary stage of Reality that is temporally concurrent but causally subsequent to the expression of the Perturbation Operator. It is precisely this expression that produces the premises—the causal and variational substrate—for the emergence of the spatial dimension, of Space itself. We could say that spatial Dimensionality, inherent in the variational aspect of the Agency of the Source, through the expression of the Perturbation Operator, is the causal seed that enables the subsequent manifestation of Space and of the spatial dimension of Reality (as well as of Time and of the temporal dimension).

Everything occurs in parallel from the variational point of view (spatial and temporal), but from the causal point of view the order of expression of the Operators at the level of Elementary Action is crucial and fundamental for the Creation and Evolution of Physical Reality as we know it, in its causal, spatial, and temporal dimensions.

We will then see how Translation and Rotation represent, from the causal point of view, the subsequent steps in defining the dimensional framework of Physical Reality, the first being understood as Propagation and Conservation in Space and the second as Propagation and Conservation in Time. Taken together with Perturbation, all three constitute the elementary dynamic basis (the dynamism of the Elementary Field under the incessant Action of the Fundamental Force, the expression/manifestation of the Agency of the Primary Source) upon which the Fundamental Physical Quantities are founded: Metric/Mass, Motion, Charge, Spin, and the related phenomenological domains that combine in different forms within gravity, electromagnetism, and the more complex phenomenologies of the weak and strong nuclear interactions, as well as all the natural phenomena that contribute to the incessant Formation of Reality and to the complex life of the Universe.

Inhomogeneities tend to cause the re-Action of the Field, toward the restoration of homogeneity. The Field’s reaction to these inhomogeneities, which I here call Perturbation, is part of this spontaneous process aimed at restoring homogeneity. These reactions generate oriented flows—flows of orientation—of more or less intense reorientation of the spatial (linear) directions of the elementary spatial fluctuations, of the Elementary Events.

These flows in the distributions of the reorientations of Elementary Events, precisely because they occur on extremely small scales and at the level of individual event-points of the Field, can be called Micro-flows.

Translation is therefore the Field’s spontaneous way of reorganizing gradients (Perturbation, inhomogeneities in temporal distributions) into divergence patterns—sources and sinks—that embody the Principle of Propagation: every variation tends to propagate and generate propagation all around, every fluctuation tends to extend beyond its origin and produce a causal effect that tends to affect its own existence and causal permanence.

In this context, Translation is a form of Variation produced by the Field in reaction to the most elementary Variations, to Perturbation—a Variation that takes the form of Propagation, of spatial (linear) reorientation of the elementary spatial fluctuations.

Translation can be seen and understood as Propagation and Conservation in Space.

From the point of view of the Elementary Events and the Dynamics of Elementary Action

Let us resume here what has already been said regarding Perturbation and push a little further.

In the absence of Perturbation, when the temporal distribution of elementary spatial fluctuations is uniform at an event-point of the Field, and likewise at the event-points within its causally connected neighborhood, with no inhomogeneities present (Perturbation, precisely), the spatial orientation of these fluctuations is entirely random. At each event-point the spatial orientation of the fluctuations will be completely random and stochastically independent from that of the surrounding event-points.

The presence of Perturbation, an alteration of the homogeneity of the temporal distributions of the Elementary Events of the Field, radically changes the situation. We must imagine that to the primary inhomogeneity constituted by the elementary spatial fluctuations, there is added an inhomogeneity in the durations of these fluctuations—an inhomogeneity in the coupling between the extensions of the fluctuations (variation of infinitesimal volumes) and the temporal durations of those fluctuations.

If, due to some phenomenon, some dynamic peculiarity of the Field—for instance, the appearance of vorticity, the formation of a vortex—Perturbation manifests itself in a region of the Field, taking on for example a value less than zero for a certain duration, then in the surrounding region Translation will manifest: a more or less pronounced reorientation of the elementary spatial fluctuations in the direction and orientation leading toward the center of Perturbation (a concept analogous to the center of Mass) of the region affected by such a dynamic configuration. Translation can be represented as a negative “divergence” (convergence) in the Field, centered on the volume that exhibits a negative value of Perturbation.

But let us proceed step by step. We can imagine an infinitesimal volume of the Field, with an extension comparable to the Planck scale, expanding and contracting in an incessant (harmonic) pulsation that we identify as a continuous succession of Elementary Events—elementary spatial fluctuations, precisely. The extension and duration of such pulsations can be described by a specific stochastic function, with mean and variance depending on the intensity of the Fundamental Force and on the resistance of the Elementary Field to deformation. All extension deformations (expansion and contraction of infinitesimal volumes, which we may view as a dynamic spatial curvature, as already mentioned, at scales just above the Planck scale) compensate one another, rendering Space effectively absolutely flat.

The temporal duration of these spatial fluctuations will tend to distribute stochastically around a mean value, with a given variance, considering that the greater the expansion or contraction (the departure from the "standard" extension of the infinitesimal volume considered), the greater the Action expressed and manifested in the Perturbation Component, the greater the potential Energy generated at the single event-point, the shorter the pulsation’s duration. The greater the dilation or contraction of the considered Field volume, the greater the resistance to further compression or expansion, and the greater the force the Field will express in reaction to such elementary spatial deformation.

An alteration, a deformation of the distribution of spatial pulsations, will correspond to an alteration, a deformation of their temporal distribution. Thus, analogous—though in a different form—is the Field’s reaction to the appearance of an inhomogeneity in the temporal distribution of such pulsations (as noted, wider spatial pulsations correspond to shorter durations). The more intense the reaction, the greater the deviation of the altered temporal distribution from the "standard". Adjacent event-points will react to the alteration of the pulsation distribution of the considered event-point, the greater the compression or expansion of its spatial volume with the associated alteration of the pulsation “frequency.” We are speaking here of the most elementary form of deformation of the Elementary Field, the most elementary form of Existence.

We can imagine the Elementary Field as an infinite volume in which the infinitesimal volumes we call event-points are like tiny elastic spheres pulsating randomly in all directions, compressing and expanding in an incessant chaotic dynamic, each animated by a generated positive or negative pressure independent of the others, yet each embedded in a continuous matrix that influences its shape, extension, and dynamics. We are speaking of deformations of shape and extension within the continuous volume occupied, where in each spatial direction the intensities, directions, and orientations vary incessantly—partly due to the pressure exerted by the Fundamental Force in that volume, and partly due to the pressure exerted by the dynamics of other event-points in the neighborhood.

Thus, a dynamic produced and a dynamic endured. From the dynamic equilibrium of these two interconnected components arises what I here call Elementary Action. The endured dynamic constitutes what I identify as the reaction of the Elementary Field to the alteration of homogeneity in the dynamics of an event-point, of an infinitesimal volume, of an imaginary micro elastic sphere pulsating incessantly, presumably in harmonic motion.

We have seen how Perturbation can be imagined as the distribution of durations associated with the spatial amplitudes of infinitesimal pulsations. Now we can imagine Translation as the Elementary Action produced by the reactions of the dynamics of surrounding event-points, naturally directed toward the imaginary center of the pulsating volume we identify as an event-point. And so it is for all the event-points of the Field, in a continuous network which, as is easily imaginable, will be characterized by an incredible dynamic complexity. A complexity that manifests itself at extremely small dimensional scales with a resonance peak at the Planck scale. A dynamic complexity that, at larger scales, in the absence of a structural organization of the Field (for example, the formation of a vortical structure), will appear homogeneous and therefore not so complex (the Field in the dynamic condition we may identify as absolute Void).

Translation transmutes the basic form of Action, Perturbation, into an incessant Process of Propagation of the inhomogeneities in the Field, in its dynamics at the most elementary level of organization.

The essential question is: what propagates? What propagates are the inhomogeneities (Perturbation and Rotation) in the distributions of Elementary Events and the correlation schemes among them.

Any deviation from homogeneity—any change in stochastic independence or correlation—tends to propagate through the Field and tend to produce propagation flows (Traslation) in the dynamics of the Field.

At every scale, from the Planck domain to the Universe as a whole, Reality can be described as a network of stochastic processes whose correlations diffuse through Translation.

From the point of view of the Fundamental Principles of Evolutionary Dynamics

Translation is the expression of the Principle of Action and Reaction, and more specifically of the Principle of Propagation. Variations produced by the incessant Action of the Fundamental Force do not remain confined: they spread, generating fluxes and divergences. Translation is thus the passive counterpart of Perturbation, inseparably linked to Spatiality—the dimensionality that grounds Space.

The Information / Energy perspective

The correlation of Translation values in a portion of the Field defines its Elementary Energy in the component Translation, which we call Motion. Motion is the organized manifestation of Translation: inertia as persistence of correlated orientations, acceleration as intensification of those correlations. Translation is therefore the energetic substrate of kinetic phenomena, the bridge between perturbative inhomogeneities and macroscopic motion.

Formulation in vector calculus

In mathematical terms, Translation is embodied by the divergence operator (DIV). Divergence measures the density of sources or sinks of a vector field, expressing the outward or inward flux from an infinitesimal volume. In the Elementary Field, Translation corresponds to the propagation of perturbative gradients, the directed spreading of inhomogeneities.

The phenomenological perspective

Translation manifests phenomenologically through inertia, acceleration, and gravity.

• Inertia is the presence of Translation within the dynamics of a structure, the persistence of correlated orientations of fluctuations.
• Acceleration is the variation of Translation, the intensification of correlations in the Field.
• Gravity emerges as the combined expression of Perturbation (Mass) and Translation (Motion): gradients of Perturbation produce non‑zero values of Translation in surrounding regions, which we observe as attraction, accelerated motion, and gravitational phenomena.

Thus, Translation is not merely the propagation of perturbations, but the very mechanism through which Motion and gravitational dynamics arise. It is the divergence of Reality’s elementary fluctuations, the directed flux that sustains the dynamism of Space.

Translation

Parameter expressing "the orientation of the spatial fluctuations (spatial distances) of the Elementary Field" (spatial orientation of the variational effects on the Elementary Field produced by the causal Action of the Fundamental Force, orientation of the Elementary Action, the most elementary form of Existence, primary manifestation of the Source of Reality).

The correlation between the Translation values ​​in a given portion of the Elementary Field (Relationship between Elementary Action of a contiguous set of event points) defines the Elementary Energy of that portion in the Component Translation, which we call Motion (in both aspects: inertia and acceleration), the root of kinetic phenomena.

Translation represent the specification of "Propagation" at the most elementary level of Physical Reality.

It is the second fundamental mode of expression of the Elementary Action.

In term of Elementary Events, Translation represents any action that spreads Perturbation in the Elementary Field.

Perturbations, inhomogeneities in the distributions of the intensities of the Elementary Events, the intensities of the deformations of the Elementary Field under the incessant pressure of the Fundamental Force, the products of the Elementary Events, "diffuse", propagate, translate in the Field.

In the Dynamics of the Elementary Action we call "Translation", or Translational Action, the orientation of the perturbations, produced by the reaction tending to restore homogeneity, in the direction of expression of the reaction itself.

Like Perturbation, we cannot say that Translation is something that exists, an entity. It is a phenomenon, a product of the dynamics of the inner interaction of the two aspects of the Source of Reality.

Translation is associated with the Operator of Reality that has the same name and is the expression of the Fundamental Principle that we call Principle of Propagation (the mutations described by the Principle of Variation, the incessant variations of the states of the Entities, the Events, always tend to propagate). The Operator Translation organizes Perturbations, the fluctuations of the Acted / Fields, in fluxes of Action directed to the restoring of homogeneity, of isotropy of the Elementary Field. The Operator Translation is responsible for the formation of fluxes / divergence aimed at canceling gradients (inhomogeneities, anisotropies) in the Acted / Fields.

Perturbation is the way in which the Elementary Field react to the Elementary Action of the Fundamental Force, the way in which the Elementary Field receive the expression of the Fundamental Force, its the product of the expression of Causality at the most elementary level of Reality. Variation is the root of the emergence of the Dimensionalities of Reality that we call Spatiality and Temporality, the fundaments of Space and Time.

Translation is the way in which the Elementary Field reacts to the appearing of Perturbations produced by the Action of the Fundamental Force, the way in which the Elementary Field receives the expression of the Fundamental Force, it is the product of the expression of Causality. Translation is the root of the emergence of the Dimensionality of Reality that we call Spatiality, the fundament of Space.

The best question with respect to Translation undoubtedly is: what propagates? What propagates is the inhomogeneity in the distributions of the Elementary Events and the patterns of correlations among them. Any departure from an homogeneous distribution of Events as any change in that distribution (and in their stochastic independence / correlation) represents a variation that tend to propagate to restore homogeneity. At any level of complexity, from the most elementary to the Universe as a whole, Reality can be described as a net of more or less independent / correlated stochastic processes that propagate in the Fields.

Modes of Action are intimately connected with the Dimensionalities of Reality: Physical Causality and Physical Variationality, that produce the Dimensions of Physical Reality: Cause, Space and Time. They represent three fundamental operators in the Formation of Physical Reality. The Operator Perturbation can be seen as the result of expression of Physical Causality, the active side of Physical Agency, while Translation and Rotation can be seen as expressions of the two aspects of its passive side, Physical Variationality: Physical Spatiality and Physical Temporality.

The Operator Translation is responsible for the formation of divergence in the Elementary Field, propagation of inhomogeneities, anisotropies, in the Field and their dynamics.

In vector calculus, Translation is embodied by the vector operator called "Divergence" (DIV), which represents a vector operator that operates on a vector field, producing a scalar field giving the quantity of the vector field's source at each point (the divergence represents the volume density of the outward flux of a vector field from an infinitesimal volume around a given point).

Translation is:

• expression of the Principle of Action and Reaction: it describes the formation of translational reactions (Translation), produced by the interactions among micro-gradients and aimed at restoring homogeneity, or isotropy, in the distribution of elementary fluctuations
• the root of Motion and kinetic phenomena
• intimately connected with the spatial direction of propagation of Elementary Action and Inertia.

Divergence

In the context of Evolutionary Knowledge, divergence is any propagation of a gradient, intended as any variation of the parameters that describe the Elementary Field along a chosen direction, the most elementary form of inhomogeneity, of anisotropy, of deformation of the Field.

Secondary manifestation of Action. Elementary divergences are produced by the reaction of the Elementary Field to the deformations produced by the action of the Fundamental Force on the Field itself.

At more complex levels, the gradients are divergences by the reaction to the perturbation of the Derived Acted / Fields under the action of Derived Agents / Forces.

Newton's laws of motion in the terms of Evolutionary Dynamics

Inertia (no acceleration)

Inertia is commonly defined as the resistance of any physical object to any change in its velocity (speed and direction of motion). Inertia can be seen as resistance to acceleration, and acceleration as change of a state of inertia.

Inertia is the manifestation of the presence of Translation in the dynamics of the object and not in the region of the Elementary Field where the object is moving. What does "presence of Translation" or a non null value of Translation means? It means that the amount of Elementary Action, in the mode we call Translation is greater that zero. In other word, in more detail, with reference to the Elementary Events, which represent the dynamics of the Elementary Field at its fundamental level, the tiny fluctuations of the Elementary Field at the Planck-scale, it means that we are in presence of some form and quantity of organization of the correlations among the inhomogeneities of the distributions of those fluctuations, the Elementary Events. And in particular, for Translation, and therefore for inertia and acceleration, what matters is not the intensity, but the intensity of the correlations of the (spatial) orientations of that fluctuations. The more intense the correlations of the orientation of the fluctuations, the greater the inertial velocity, the stronger the increase in those correlations, the greater the acceleration.

Acceleration

Acceleration is commonly defined as the rate of change of that velocity (magnitude and direction) with respect to time. Inertia can be seen as resistance to acceleration, and acceleration as change of a state of inertia.

Acceleration is the manifestation of the presence of Translation in the dynamics of the Elementary Field, in the region where the object is at rest (the value of Translation in the object is zero) or in motion (Translation in the object is non null). An object with a given intensity of correlations of the orientation of the fluctuations, a given Translation value, which moves in the Field showing a given intensity of correlations of the orientation of the fluctuations, the object's Translation interacting with the Translation in / of the Field, acquires more Translation, i.e. the fluctuations at the Planck-scale will show increasing correlations in the orientation of the fluctuations. Result: an object accelerating in a Field showing a potential (like a gravitational potential of a gravitational field). The amount of Translation, and therefore of acceleration, is proportional to the spatial distribution of the amounts of Perturbation in the Field (quantities and distances), and therefore to the spatial distribution of mass densities in Space-time, in the Metric field, or, as stated by the Principle of General Equivalence, to the (local) curvature of Space-time, to the (local) speed limit of the propagation of Information, or the local temperature of the Field, etc.

Gravity

Gravity is commonly seen as a natural phenomenon produced by Mass and the dynamics of objects with mass.

Perturbation is causal origination of Gravity, while Translation is its variational effect.

In terms of the Elementary Field and Dynamics of Elementary Action, and its Modes /Components, gravity can be seen as the combined expression of the modes of Elementary Action that we call Perturbation and Translation. Perturbation is the root of Mass, while Translation is the root of Motion. Mass and Motion are two closely related phenomena. Gradients in Perturbation, inhomogeneities in the spatial distribution of Perturbation represent what we commonly call curvature of Space-time and produce reactions from / in the Elementary Field in the form of non-zero values of Translation in the surrounding regions of massive structures, which "cause" the attraction between massive bodies and their accelerated motion in the Field.

Links to the tables of contents of TFNR Paper

• Go to the contents list of the paper "The Fundamental Nature of Reality"

• Go to Chapter 2 "A first look"