The Order of Action in Light

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Light is necessary for complex systems to work properly. Yet intricate systems that are not designed in the light rarely function smoothly, reliably or at all. This is not a popular idea with some persons, and it won't be proven here. It will be described, though.

The way material, massive things such as flowing water, air, molten rock, or falling objects move varies greatly depending. In some of these flows diverge and converge, often unpredictably. In others such as falling objects, say rocks, the motion is of such low dimensionality and inevitably doomed to reach the end of its path at the end of its fall; falling cannot form a stable model for system functioning. Moreover, falling is not always the motion of any dynamic form of the action itself. Simply massive material objects are only rudimentary, usually stable forms of the action. Exceptions inevitably remain peculiar.

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Complex systems such as cars, clocks, radios, television, ships and airplanes depend on a flow of action that does not diverge unexpectedly. It appears to be true that the only reliable flow of action in the universe is the motion of light. The flow of light throughout the universe appears to be similar everywhere. It is highly predictable. Light can be created at will in a stunning new variety of illumination sources. The motion of light can be described and predicted and calculated with high accuracy. It does surprising things but not at random or unexpected times except where probability appears, almost always in very predictable ways under quite definite
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Thus light forms the fundamental, primal model of the action path. If you want a complex system to work properly, you must plan the flow of action in its processes, and ensure that the flow of action is linear. A good way to do this is to draw the pattern of flow of action in your system on a long piece of paper. The flow of action may consist of flows of air and fuel into a carburetor. The mixture then moves into an engine of some sort, where it is ignited. The action then changes form to a process of burning, then to increasing temperature, then to increasing force against a piston or turbine blades, then to the turning of a shaft, and motion to gears. Meanwhile the communications systems are describing the details of the vehicle's position, orientation, direction of motion and a host of other events. Other communications may take place between the operator and a controller or dispatcher. Wheels may be turned, or brakes may be applied. Lifting surfaces may be moved. Almost all of the events involve the transfer of energy from one place to another, or from one time to another as in the storage of energy in batteries or capacitors.

From the position of fundamental physics, the flow of energy is a good starting point. Energy is a time derivative of the action. It is only necessary to integrate the flow of energy along the paths from its source (fuel, batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, height and descent or other sources) to produce a map of the flows of action. If the flows can be mapped alongside a light path, such as a floodlight or laser (lasers are particularly good for this purpose) then plans for the path of the action can be designed with careful attention to their relation to the flow of the fundamental origin of order everywhere in the universe.

If it is insisted that action paths be designed in darkness, without any reference to light, then the errors that result are incalculable. Systems that can be designed that way are limited to rudimentary responses, or other very simple events.

If it is necessary to design a complex system that works in darkness, that is quite possible by designing it in well lit circumstances. A good example of that kind of manufacture is in robotic spacecraft which are sent to other planets such as Mars, Jupiter or Saturn. Astonishing missions to the planets such as HiRise at Mars, Cassini-Huygens at Saturn, and the New Horizons probe now approaching Pluto are excellent examples of systems designed to work in some of the worst lighting, dimmest and darkest circumstances ever reached by human works. They were designed in the light to work in the dark or very close to it. HiRise and Cassini-Huygens were essentially perfect and their missions were completed with historical results. New Horizons might well do the same.

Light is not only not to be feared, it is vital and essential, the ultimate sine qua non of modern industrial market development. Make friends with the light.

Securing the World after Aeons of Struggle

What seems to be economic malaise might only be the absence of millions of years of struggle to reach the Moon. Much of it was zero sum carnivorous predation.

That does not mean coming to terms with the newly understood solar system will automatically be a piece of cake and without any problems. Some of the struggle to reach the Moon consisted of international war, and securing arms after war is an intense for of protocol. War is thousands of years old, so it is not merely a few years from which the world is securing its arms. There were entirely separate approaches with each branch having its own theology, and every other part of culture in each was commensurately different and suspicious of the others.

It's late, though, and one cannot write of that much darkness at this hour.