TFNR - The Principle of Action and Reaction
The principle of Action and Reaction represents the specification of the Principle of Propagation at the most elementary Level of Physical Reality.
The Principle of Propagation
This Principle states that the mutations described by the Principle of Variation — the incessant variations in the dynamic condition of Entities (Events) — always tend to propagate.
Any variation of a Field produced by a Force (Event) tends to propagate within the same Field, spatially and temporally, transmitting the Action of that Force through the Field, propagating Causes and Causality via Action.
The propagation of Causes and Forces is expressed as the extension in Space-time of the effects of the Action produced by those Causes / Forces. Any variation of a Field produced by a Force tends to propagate spatially (and thus conserve itself in Time), transmitting the Action of those Forces—the Events—through the Fields, propagating Causality through the propagation of Variationality.
The general Principle of Propagation is the foundation of all derived principles of propagation operating at the various Levels of Reality. It is the primary and fundamental expression of Variationality in the mode we call Spatiality.
At the level of the Elementary Field the Principle of Action and Reaction operates.
At the level of Physical Structures of Information, propagation of Information occurs, for example through the "emission and absorption" of photons / e.m. waves.
At the biological level, this principle governs the propagation of genetic information mediated by gametes.
At the cognitive level it manifests in communication between individuals and in the various Phenomena related to expression through languages.
The principle of Action and Reaction
As stated, this Principle is the specification — at the most elementary level of Physical Reality — of the more general Principle of Propagation: mutations described by the Principle of Variation always tend to propagate.
The Principle of Action and Reaction describes the formation of "translational reactions" (Translation), produced by interactions among micro-gradients and aimed at restoring homogeneity or isotropy in the pre-temporal distribution of sub-elementary pre-spatial fluctuations.
In conventional physics, this principle is embodied by Newton's third law, which states that when two bodies interact, they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. More generally, we can say that "to every action there is always opposed an equal reaction". In mechanics, the counter-force that produces the reaction (re-Action) is not "caused" by the force that produces the Action. Both forces act simultaneously, without causing each other.
In this model, the Principle of Action and Reaction manifests wherever a Source produces Action — wherever a Force expresses Action upon a Field and the Field responds by producing a counter‑Force that opposes the first and, in turn, generates Action that we call re‑Action.
Wherever a Cause produces effects, those effects become Causes in turn.
The Principle tells us that the Action manifested by a Field (variation, deformation) as a consequence of the Action expressed by a Force always produces a counter‑Action (the conserving Action).
This re‑Action manifests in the Mode / Component I call Translation.
Stated in the terms of the Dynamics of Elementary Action, the elementary pre‑spatial fluctuations and their pre‑temporal distributions at the level of each event‑point produce a reaction: a variation in the temporal prevalence of the orientation of the pre‑spatial fluctuations of adjacent event‑points, tending toward the restoration of dynamic homogeneity.
The Principle of Action and Reaction in the terms of the Dynamics of Elementary Action
Within the Dynamics of Elementary Action, the Principle of Action and Reaction does not appear as a mechanical rule imposed from outside, but as the intrinsic mode through which the Elementary Field reorganizes itself whenever an Action is expressed and manifests.
At the most elementary level, Reality is not a passive medium that "receives" Action; it is a dynamic continuum in which every Action immediately generates a corresponding counter‑Action, arising from the very dynamical nature of the Field.
Elementary Action can be seen as any local inhomogeneity in the dynamism of an event‑point (or a micro‑region of event‑points) that both varies (according to the Principle of Variation) and propagates (according to the Principle of Propagation). But propagation is never unilateral: it always encounters the Field's intrinsic tendency to restore dynamic homogeneity. This restoring tendency is precisely what we call re-Action.
Whenever Elementary Action manifests if the Field, the Field responds by reorganizing the orientation and temporal prevalence of its sub‑elementary pre‑spatial fluctuations. This reorganization is not an "effect" caused by the Action; it is the Field"s own dynamical expression, emerging simultaneously with the Action itself, at the level of any event-point involved.
In this sense:
- Variation introduces a local asymmetry in the natural spontaneous dynamism of the Field,
- Propagation extends this asymmetry through the Field,
- Reaction expresses the Field's intrinsic drive toward restoring dynamic isotropy,
- Action and Reaction are therefore two inseparable aspects of the same dynamical Process.
The Field does not "choose" if and how to react. This is not the result of any evaluation, calculation, or decision. The Field does not "compute" a counter‑force. Not a matter of math! Rather, the counter-force that drives the re-Action emerges and express point by point, event‑point by event‑point, from the natural composition of the micro‑dynamics of Elementary Action.
At each event‑point, the orientation and intensity of the pre‑spatial fluctuations adjust in response to the local imbalance represented by Action. This adjustment — influenced by the chaotic, indeterminate fluctuations resonating around the Planck scale — produces the translational re‑Action that restores homogeneity.
In the terms of the Modes - Components of Elementary Action (elementary perspective): Translation is produces (induced) by the production of Perturbation.
In the terms of the sub-elementary dynamics (sub-elementary perspective): the reorientation of the pre-spatial fluctuations in the direction that tend to restore homogeneity, isotropy, is produced (induced) by the production of the inhomogeneity in the pre-temporal distributions of the pre-spatial fluctuations.
Indeed, from a deeper, sub‑elementary viewpoint, Action and Reaction arise from:
- the pre‑spatial fluctuations that constitute the Elementary Field,
- their pre‑temporal distributions,
- and their incessant micro‑interactions across adjacent event‑points.
When the Action expressed by the Force introduces a local asymmetry, the surrounding event‑points adjust their fluctuation patterns, producing a re‑Action that tends toward restoring isotropy. This is the most elementary form of relational dynamism: Action and Reaction as the Field's own self‑regulating Behavior.
Let's try to make a concrete example. Consider the interaction between:
- a Translational configuration of the Field (potential Motion, such as that associated with metric/gravitational gradients), and
- the Translational component expressed by an InfoStructure propagating through the Field (its inertial Motion),
- and the interaction between the two Field configurations, , which produces the acceleration of the InfoStructure as it propagates through the Field.
In the region of the Field where this interaction occurs (in all the included event-points), the Elementary Action associated with the Field's "kinetic potential" (potential Motion -> acceleration potential, like that produced by gravitational Phenomena) and the Elementary Action representing the InfoStructure's "kinetic effective" (effective Motion -> inertial Motion of the InfoStructure) compose at each event‑point according to the familiar vector‑composition rule of classical mechanics — though in a less deterministic form that incorporates the stochastic component of sub‑elementary chaotic/indeterminate fluctuations.
This composition produces:
a change in the InfoStructure’s motion (acceleration), and
a counter‑adjustment of the Field, restoring local dynamical balance.
Ontological meaning In this model, the Principle of Action and Reaction expresses:
the relational nature of all dynamical processes,
the self‑regulating character of the Elementary Field,
the co‑construction of Action and counter‑Action,
the intrinsic creativity of Reality at the sub‑elementary level.
Action and Reaction are not two separate forces; they are the dual expression of the same dynamical necessity: the Field’s continuous reorganization in response to Variation and Propagation.
In summary
- Principle of Action and Reaction as a specification of the Principle of Propagation
- The key point is that propagation is never "one‑way". Every action is already a relation, and reaction is the minimal form of this reciprocity.
- General Principle of Propagation: every action tends to propagate through Space‑time, transferring dynamics, state, Information, or structure from one domain to another.
- Principle of Action and Reaction (specification): every propagation of Action implies a counter‑Action. Reality never undergoes an influence passively, but responds according to its own structures of constraint.
- In the language of this model: every "Operator of Reality" acting upon a system encounters a corresponding structure of response — Evolutionary Dynamics are always co‑constructed by action and counter‑action, never a unilateral causal monologue.
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