The Quantum of Action is the Currency of Evolution

The quantum of action is also the economic goal.  It is small, and implies that meticulous activity is to be the norm in society.  If you want the nation to survive the recession easily as a nation, inform the people completely, with greatly gentle thoroughness, of all they need to know about the nature of the action quantum.  It is one of a handful of greatest discoveries in history.  Most people imagine it is too small to worry about.  Sometimes it comes in floods.  It has simple yet surprising dimensions and is marvelously versatile in nature.  It is definitely what it is (several ways), and not something else.

Kindergarten children are old enough to understand action.  Toys can be devised to present action in amusing, harmless, benign and safe.  Toy manufacturers already know this, because action toys are amusing.  Unfortunately, those dedicated to war tend to usurp all forms of the action and forbid toys that present the action in its magnitude, dimensions and variety of forms.  

 

War makers tend to present an idea that the only goal of action is killing, control, capture or dominance.  It's not clear that they know that guiding a nation about the nature of action is something that could be woven into toys with the particular goal of informing its long term population because the action quantum will be part of economic activity for millions of years.  Perhaps a military adjunct would present a carnival display of harmless, interesting, activity.  People are really happy when enforcement does a good job of protecting the market place so that people can get on doing their business without being harmed by terrorists.  That contrast goes all the way to the quantum in its fineness.

The great event which was the emergence of mankind, -into a constructing, language-speaking, writing and tool-using creature determined to reach the Moon,- has begun the conclusion of that great advancement.  In the aftermath, new goals, futures and destinies will emerge from the quiet.  Quiet because in evolution, action  emerges quantum by quantum from the smallest ranges of life itself.  We know of the importance of delicacy in the action in certain events, such as settling a fly exactly over a fish.  Yet the fish and fly hook are a part of the zero sum game: equivalent win win games are vital in the measures of civil action that always exist in cultured civilization.  Money is one form of the action.  Yet money too often takes on zero sum aspects that impoverish many, sustain large numbers well, and enrich some beyond all comprehension.  What are the dimensions of action in imbalanced distribution?  There is no law that says rich people are intrinsically criminal, although economics is not well understood and some believe that being rich is criminal if the rich have more money than those who hold that opinion.  

Now that the six thousand year event is ending in success, the world is on a long run course for the next million years and more. Inevitably, at any rate. Quantum mechanics shows / reveals / demonstrates that time and energy are among its appearances. That means the dimensions of the quantum can be resolved to a product of time and energy. In the longer view of the future which the world is grateful to it possible to look more confidently into the future again. Remember after Second World War, the almost sacred song "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever?". That's what's happened. It's that way forever, and people are more confident every day that it is possible to secure and strengthen the peace. Mostly, peacefully, and through world cooperation among the good, and for the whole world.

What does that mean that energy is conjugate to time? The quantum of action is that it is a natural quantity of action. It is very small, and a primitive component of energy and of power. Action is when the mousetrap springs, the starting gun fires, the balloon pops, the bird alights or takes off, the alarm clock rings. Action is when the spark plug fires. Action is when energy changes. Especially suddenly.

The action overall - that is, the global and general patterns and distributions of activity, will be in roughly a pattern that, while not disturbed by war, at least will be modified only by the usual natural events such as seasons, wind, rain, sunlight and the planets, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, meteors, tornadoes, droughts and the like-as well of course by human activities. While not as vast as natural phenomena, human activity in the past has a bad reputation for being among the most selectively immiserating and the most perniciously difficult to solve of all the things that seemingly should have a solution. With the attainment of the Moon, that difficulty-war-appears to be slowly coming to an end. Peace will permit nature to become a cultivated part of civilization and human life will not ever again just being us against the shadows and violence of nature.  People have made the world nicer and more lovely since the attainment of space flight, that they have deep, completely justified feelings about anybody who so much as thinks of war again.  Just ask people in Poland or Czechoslovakia or Greece - or almost anywhere for that matter.

What it means in the energy though, is this. The very long picture ahead, and knowledge that the quantum is an extremely fine natural unit of action, together imply that energy needs for the foreseeable future must be accounted very finely.  That is, energy needs must be accounted on a quantum scale.  In other words, the quantum units on which our actions are based are a sort of currency, and much, much smaller than was anticipated.  (In fact, nobody anticipated the quantum at all.)  It is as though the great Treasury of the World came down and said, "The currency is being changed. From now on, you will have to account your finances in units of one millionth of one dollar." It is not a matter of inflating the currency unit again. It is a matter of making the small end currency unit compatible with the atomic, quantum and wavelength size scales. 

Now, how much action needs to be measured?  It is not the total quantity.  A whale or an elephant both engage in astronomical quantities of action - that is, astronomical numbers of quanta - yet their activity is resolved to the finest degree, to the quantum, apparently, or near to it.  That is why they appear so graceful.

Streamlining does some of this, and is a rough first approximation to grace.  Eliminating noise pollution is another good direction.  And so on.

That's why the economy appears to be in a 'lull' or "recession" It is not that that we are doomed. It's just - aka justice - because that's the way it is.  Quiet in the court of the World.  For the next million years (or sometime during it) human civilization will learn to account its actions down to the quantum. Fortunately, we can do it better than the insects. We have computers, bit by bit. A bit is pretty small- and a good step in the right direction.  A bit is a quantum of information.