TFNR - Sources, forces and fields
A source is always a whole, a non-manifest couple of interacting entities (one active/creative, a force, and one passive/receptive, a field) potentially or effectively producing action, events. So, at the same time a source is the causal origin (what acts) and the variational substrate (what varies) of any event. Force and field are a unity, different aspects, but unitarian and indivisible expressions of a source. The Force is the active, the creative side of the Source. The Field is the passive, its receptive side. The Source express itself in these two entities, the unmanifested, root of any manifestation, physical and cognitive, the everything, the whole Reality, the Universe in evolution. The unmanifested is here intended as the absolute, the pure and formless source of being, from which the existence, the manifestation arise. The Source manifest itself in the complementary expression (that means “pressure to existence”) of a unitarian couple of interacting entities, Force and Field. The Source in itself, as the One, is free from change, a concept close to the “unmoved mover”, or “uncaused cause”, but its direct manifestation, The Action, is the change itself. The absolute/unmanifested and the relative/manifest are different levels of the same reality.
A force is an agent, a cause, an entity that, interacting with a field, produce existence, the causal side of a source of something that exists. For causal side, I intend what relates to the expression of a force acting on a field producing events, action. It is an internal interaction between the two unitary aspects of a source. A unity, a self-manifestation of a source through this internal interaction.
A field is an “acted”, the former “substance”, the substrate, the variational side of a source. For variational side, I intend the aspects of a source that can vary in space (volume, area, distance, relative space location --> position and its derivatives with respect to space and/or in time) and/or in time (duration, period, relative time location --> instant and its derivatives with respect to space and/or in time). The basic variational aspect of Reality, that correspond to the primary mode (Perturbation) of expression of the Action, the dynamics of the Elementary Events, is space-time itself with the associated metric field, seen as the dimensional counterpart of mass density and the gravitational phenomena. The others variational aspects, that correspond to the further, more complex, modes of expression of the Action, are attraction/repulsion related to motion (Translation), vorticity/chirality related to charge (Rotation) and orientation of the Rotation axis (Rotation Axis) related to the electromagnetic phenomena. The more complex nuclear phenomena, forces and fields related to the combination of these fundamental modes and the above-mentioned physical quantities and phenomena.
These two sides of the source, force and field, interacting, manifest their peculiar features and, at same time, acquire the features of the other different/opposite/complementary side.
The field manifests its passive feature of “resistance” to variation, reacting to the pressure of the force. In turn, this reaction manifests itself as a counter force, opposed to the original force. It opposes as a counter-pressure to the action of the force.
The force manifests its active feature of “pressure” toward variation, reacting to the resistance of the field. In turn, this reaction manifest itself as a variation of the effect, of the action produced by the force. It opposes as a counter-resistance to the reaction of the field. An incessant trend toward the dynamic equilibriums represented by the action (the events, the variations) produced.
So, the force has in itself a secondary/derived aspect of variation/resistance and the field has in itself a secondary/derived aspect of force/pressure. In other words, this means that a field, for some aspects, can be seen as a force and vice versa. These two aspects of a source are inseparable, really.
The best image we can find to represent this fundamental interconnection between the two opposites in the basic nature of a source is the ancient glyph of Yin Yang. I know, by a scientist this can be seen as an indebted reference to a world of beliefs and superstitions. I don’t think so. Anyone who wants to walk the paths of knowledge must have the humility to observe with respect every expression of the human thought, aware that even the most insignificant concept, produced by a man, can contain a fund of truth and can be useful to reveal some aspect of Reality. In this case, then, we must bow our heads in front of one of the highest peaks of human knowledge, the foundation of some of the most important philosophies of the East.
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