TFNR - From Events to Action: the dynamics of Creation
The relationship between Events (what happens) and Action—between Action as the expression of a Force, of Causality, and Action as the product of that expression, as variation of a Field, of Variationality (Spatiality and Temporality)—is essential for understanding the peculiar dynamics of the incessant Creation of Existence, of Reality at all its levels of Complexity.
Let us revisit the two concepts, seeking to grasp their distinct natures, functions, and mutual relationships.
Events
Events (from the most elementary to the most complex ones, from micro- to macro-Events) are always variations (from the most elementary to the more complex levels of Reality) produced by the Action of a Force on a Field, an interaction between the active and passive aspects of a Source.
Even when we see a car moving or crashing, a giant void swirling in the dark, molecules agitating in biological tissues, stars exploding, leaves falling in the wonderful colors of autumn—always Forces and Fields interacting, Processes of Events organized by Relations, produced by Entities. Correlations of inhomogeneities in the distributions of fluctuations of "Something" (in the end, we always find the Primary Source, the Force, and the Field).
Incredibly complex patterns of correlations between inhomogeneities in distributions of Field fluctuations produced by Forces. Patterns we call cars, stars, molecules, biological tissues, Dark Halos, leaves—and so on, endlessly. Information. In-Form-Action. Events bound together in ever more intricate networks, through schemes of Relations, within Processes we observe in the Phenomena that make this wonderful world we live in perpetually mutable. Worlds of which we are only minimally aware. Worlds and Phenomena that hide from our curious gaze, from our need to know. Hidden in the infinitely small, or in the vastness of the cosmos. Hidden in the evolutions of objects we cannot perceive—some essential to our very life, others so lethal that we are fortunate not to have direct knowledge of them.
Action
At the same time, Action—the causal and variational root of each Event, the transition from the possible to the actual—is the expression of the fundamental property of the Sources that we call Agency, the act of producing Events, and the same product of Agency, the result of the occurring Events, the product of the causes and variations produced—variations of the same entities that produce the Action: Forces and Fields, Sources in the end.
In this sense, Action can be considered the most important physical quantity. Arising from the "Action", precisely, of a Force operating on a Field, it synthesizes Causes and effects, Forces and variations of/in the Fields—whose dynamics, through the evolution of its dimensionalities (Causality, Spatiality and Temporality), become Space and Time. We should not be surprised that, in physics, Action has the dimensions of Force x Space x Time.
Action, in the physical domain of Nature, in its most elementary form, manifests itself in three Modes / Components: Perturbation, Translation and Rotation (with its two sub-modes: Chirality and Axis Orientation). These are the physical declinations of the more general Modes: Variation, Propagation, Conservation—the Principles that underlie all the dynamics of Reality.
The Modes / Components of Physical Action are the foundations of all that exists in the Physical Universe. From these basic forms derive the Fundamental Physical Quantities and Phenomena: Space-time Metric phenomena and Mass / gravitation (from Perturbation), Motion and kinetic phenomena (from Translation), Charge and electric phenomena (from Rotation Chirality), Spin and magnetic phenomena (from Rotation Axis Orientation).
The Modes of Elementary Action are relative to the distribution of Elementary Events in the causal, spatial and temporal dimensions of Reality. From the evolution and combination of these basic Modes, all the complex forms of Action arise and evolve (including the weak and strong nuclear inter-actions and phenomena, etc.).
From Action to Events, from Events to Action
Action that produces Events, which in their essence represent Action. An only apparent circularity. Action that produces other Action—even in different forms. Action that generates further Action—a Process that we perceive, observe, measure, indirectly, as things that happen: Events, precisely!
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