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| − | In these sections I will try '''to clarify what I mean by the term "Energy" in the context of this model of Reality'''. And I will close the chapter by briefly addressing the more complex forms of Information that appear in the physical world (Quantum and Classical Information).
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| − | === Energy as Elementary Physical Information ===
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| − | Energy is '''an elementary form of [[Physical Information]]'''. As a form of Information, it is both the object and the product of the sub-process of Formation of Physical Reality that we call '''Physical Evolution'''.
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| − | The concept of Energy is '''ontologically linked to inhomogeneity''', or more precisely, to '''correlations among inhomogeneities'''. Inhomogeneity "of" what and "in" what?
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| − | '''Inhomogeneity "of" the dynamism of a Field, "in" the Field itself'''.
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| − | The dynamism of a Field is represented by '''Event-points''', and the inhomogeneities in their distribution represent the '''Action''' of the '''Fundamental Force''' in that Field.
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| − | '''The correlations (Relations) among such inhomogeneities represent the Information / Energy of that Field at a given instant''', the Form that the Field assumes at that instant.
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| − | Networks of Relations among Events organize them into Processes, which we observe as Structures of Information (Dark Halos, Particles, Waves, etc.), as Forms composed of such Structures, as Systems composed of Forms, and ultimately as the Universe — the ensemble of all that exists.
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| − | At the most elementary levels of Physical Reality, the types of Relations, the networks of Events, and the Processes that emerge are '''relatively simple and predictable''', albeit in a probabilistic and statistical sense, due to the turbulence, chaos, and indeterminacy that dominate these levels. Their incidence increases exponentially as we descend toward microscopic spatial and temporal scales, toward the Planck scale and beyond.
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| − | This is why we introduce '''a specific term for Information at these elementary levels of Reality'''.
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| − | In this perspective, I will also '''return to the notion of Proto-Energy'''. As discussed in the previous chapter, when examining the dynamism of the Elementary Field and the Dynamics of Elementary Action, we enter the causal and variational depths of Physical Reality — a domain where Existence is incessantly re-created in its most elementary form. It is a region inaccessible to observation, where even spatial and temporal dimensions are pre-physical perspectives in continuous formation, shaped by the indeterminacy of elementary fluctuations and by their statistical distributions which, to distinguish them from Space and Time, we call pre-spatial and pre-temporal.
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| − | Within that creative dimension — entirely potential — from which the physical world emerges through formative processes that remain inaccessible, we identified '''dynamic states that we have called Proto-Energy. Pre-physical, pre-spatial, and pre-temporal; non-(cor)relational; not yet "Energy"''' in the sense defined in this chapter, but nevertheless the seed from which Energy emerges in its principal manifested forms: the Potentials "of" the Field and the Effective FPQs embodied in InfoStructures, FPQs of InfoStructures "in" the Field.
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| − | === Energy in conventional physics ===
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| − | Etymologically, "Energy" recalls notions of "force in action", "work in progress", "capacity to act", "aptitude to produce motion".
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| − | '''In conventional physics, beyond these generic definitions, the term has never found a precise ontological definition'''.
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| − | It is reiterated that Energy is '''not a fluid, not a substance, not something with material reality'''.
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| − | It is said to be '''an abstract mathematical concept''' connected to constraints on possible processes and to temporal symmetries of physical laws — a '''quantitative property''' that must be transferred to an object to do work or to heat it.
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| − | In my opinion, the main reason why science struggles to define Energy is '''Time'''.
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| − | Reality is the result of an incessant Process of Formation.
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| − | '''Time is not optional: it is a fundamental element of Reality'''.
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| − | It is emergent, but at a level strictly linked to the most elementary level of Physical Reality, the direct manifestation of the Primary Source.
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| − | '''Elementary Events, in their occurrence, define Space and Time and are defined by them'''.
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| − | Causality and Variationality (Spatiality and Temporality) are intimately interconnected — two complementary aspects of the same Entity (the Primary Source) responsible for the Creation of Existence and the Evolution of Form.
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| − | '''To "measure" Energy we must stop Time'''.
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| − | But '''Time cannot be stopped'''. Without Time, there is no Reality.
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| − | '''Energy is therefore not a "real" concept: it is an abstraction, a representation'''.
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| − | A convenient abstraction that allows us to evaluate the dynamics of a system, to approximate variations in a Process.
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| − | But it is not Reality. Reality is the flow between two states — not the states themselves.
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| − | And yet, since we cannot observe Reality in its temporal continuity, '''we must discretize'''.
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| − | We watch the film frame by frame, in the illusion that the frames are Reality, rather than representations.
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| − | Conventional physics '''helps us understand how Energy varies, but not what Energy is'''.
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| − | Variations of Energy reflect microscopic changes — Interactions, Actions, Events that modify Relations and produce variations in Form.
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| − | Let us return to the foundations of this model.
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| − | === And, in this model ===
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| − | Among the fundamental concepts of this model is a '''general level structure: Levels of Reality, Levels of Complexity'''.
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| − | Since each level has its own particular form of inhomogeneity, '''each level has its own form of Energy, its own form of Elementary Information'''.
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| − | We will see how Energy — not yet "Energy" in the proper sense; at this stage it is what I call Proto-Energy — is characterized at the most elementary level of Physical Reality: the level of the '''Elementary Field''', where the incessant Action of the Fundamental Force produces the '''Elementary Events''', the microscopic pre-spatial fluctuations whose pre-temporal distributions constitute the "raw material" of Reality.
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| − | Then we will see how, at each Level of Reality, the forms of Energy evolve toward greater complexity.
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| − | '''The concepts of inhomogeneity, correlation, and Form are central to understanding Energy'''.
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| − | At the level of Elementary Events, '''inhomogeneity reduces to simple differentiation of pre-spatial distances, areas, and volumes''', determined by fluctuations produced by the Action of the Force on the Field.
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| − | To explore this unreachable domain '''we must rely on imagination'''. The key instrument, as discussed in the previous chapter, is '''the concept of the Event-point''': a point of observation, an operator that allows us to imagine observing the unobservable — the dynamism of the Elementary Field in its fundamental aspects: amplitude, linear orientation, chirality of vorticity, and the angular orientation of the vorticity axis.
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| − | '''Genealogy of Energy and Fundamental Physical Quantities (FPQs)'''
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| − | '''1. Inhomogeneity'''
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| − | Asymmetry in the dynamics of the Elementary Field (pre-spatial, pre-temporal, or relative to the Field’s average behavior).
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| − | '''2. Correlation'''
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| − | Relations among inhomogeneities across multiple Event-points.
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| − | '''3. Form'''
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| − | The configuration produced by correlated inhomogeneities.
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| − | '''4. Energy'''
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| − | The informational expression of Form at an instant (Action / Time).
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| − | '''Levels of Energy'''
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| − | * '''Proto-Energy''' (Unmanifested — Non-correlational)
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| − | - Pre-spatial Proto-Energy
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| − | - Pre-temporal Proto-Energy
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| − | - Elementary Proto-Energy (Elementary Action)
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| − | * '''Physical Energy''' (Manifested — Correlational / Relational)
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| − | - Energy "of" the structured Field → '''Potentials'''
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| − | - Energy of InfoStructures "in" the structured Field → '''Effective FPQs'''
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| − | - Energy of InfoStructure distributions and aggregations
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| − | - Energy of Form distributions and aggregations
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| − | '''FPQs: Two Distinct Families'''
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| − | * '''FPQs "of" the Field''' — the Potential FPQs - Potentials
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| − | <blockquote>→ Weakly structured correlational Energies of the Field.</blockquote>
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| − | - Metric curvature
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| − | - Motion potential → Acceleration
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| − | - Electric potential
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| − | - Magnetic potential)
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| − | * '''FPQs of InfoStructures "in" thye Field''' — the Effective FPQs - InfoStructures
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| − | <blockquote>→ Intensely structured correlational Energies embodied in InfoStructures.</blockquote>
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| − | - Mass
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| − | - Effective (inertial and accelerated) Motion
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| − | - Charge
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| − | - Spin
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| − | The interaction between these two families of FPQs defines the dynamics of Physical Reality across all Levels of Complexity.
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