Propagation

Definition

Propagation is the second fundamental mode of expression of Action. It spreads Variation, the substrate of Existence in its most elementary form, in the Fields. Variations, Events, "diffuse", propagate, in the Fields. It is a Mode of Action relative to Reality in its most general aspects. The specifications relative to the two domain of Nature, the physical and the cognitive ones, are Translation (root of motion) and Communication respectively. We can say that propagations don't exists, they happen. This is a phenomenon, a product of the dynamics of the inner interaction of the two aspects of the Source of Reality.

It is associated with the Operator of Reality that has the same name and is the expression of the Fundamental Principle that we call Principle of Variation (everything that exists is in incessant mutation, variation, or better, all that exist "is" incessant variation). Variation, as an Operator of Reality, transmutes the pressure of Agents / Forces on Acted / Fields in an incessant flux of variations, fluctuations, of the parameters that describe the same Acted / Fields.

The Operator Propagation organizes Variations, the fluctuations of the Acted / Fields, in fluxes of Action directed to the restoring of homogeneity, of isotropy of the Fields. The Operator Propagation is responsible form the formation of fluxes / divergence aimed at canceling gradients (inhomogeneities, anisotropies) in the Acted / Fields.

Propagation is the way in which Acted / Fields react to the appearing of Variation produced by the Action of Agents / Forces, the way in which Acted / Fields receive the expression of the Agents / Forces, its the product of the expression of Causality. Propagation is the root of the emergence of the Dimensionality of Reality that we call Spatiality, the fundament of Space.

The best question with respect to Propagation undoubtedly is: what propagates? What propagates is the alteration of the distribution of the Events and the patterns of correlations that link them together. Any departure from an homogeneous distribution of Events as any change in that distribution (and in their stochastic independence / correlation) represents a variation that tend to propagate to restore homogeneity. At any level of complexity, from the most elementary to the Universe as a Whole, Reality can be described as a net of more or less independent / correlated stochastic processes that propagate in the Fields.

Action	Physical Action	Cognitive Action
Variation	Perturbation	Perception
Propagation	Translation	Communication
Conservation	Rotation	Storage

Modes of Action are intimately connected with the Dimensionalities of Reality: Causality and Variationality, that produce the Dimensions of Reality: Cause, Space and Time. They represent three fundamental operators in the Formation of Reality. The Operator Propagation, together with Conservation, can be seen as expressions of Spatiality, the first of the two aspects of the passive side of Agency, Variationality.

Common definition

Links to Wikipedia pages:

• Propagation
• Action
• Action (physics)
• Action (philosophy)

See also

• Modes of Action
• Modes of Physical Action
• Modes of Cognitive Action
• Variation
• Conservation
• Perturbation
• Translation
• Rotation
• Meta Perturbation - Perception
• Meta Propagation - Communication
• Meta Conservation - Storage
• Action
• Physical Action
• Cognitive Action
• Elementary Action
• Micro-gradients
• Derived Action
• Derived Physical Action
• Fundamental Physical Quantities
• Fundamental Constants of Nature
• Continuity (or) and Granularity
• Dynamics of Action
• Dynamics of Physical Action
• Dynamics of Cognitive Action

Links to the related sections of the TFNR Paper

• TFNR - 7.2 Creation: the Dynamics of Elementary Action
• TFNR - 2.2 Looking at the world - The mark of the Source: the Force in Action
• TFNR - 2.2 Action and Information: the core of Reality
• TFNR - 2.4 Variation, propagation, conservation: the basic functional operators of Reality
• TFNR - 2.4 Propagation in space-time in the terms of Elementary Action: Translation
• TFNR - 2.4 Propagation as conservation in space and Conservation as propagation in time
• TFNR - 2.4 Evolutionary Dynamics: why, what and how in the real factory of Reality
• TFNR - 2.4 Gradient, divergence, rotation: from probability distributions to differential operators
• TFNR - 2.4 The Elementary Action and the fundamental principles of the Elementary Dynamics
• TFNR - 2.6 Events: Action - Creation/Existence
• TFNR - 2.6 Pressure to existence, resistance to variation: the Physics of Creation
• TFNR - 2.6 Action: the expression of the incessant tension to existence
• TFNR - 4.2 Entities
• TFNR - 4.2.1 Sources
• TFNR - 4.2.2 Agents / Forces
• TFNR - 4.3 Events
• TFNR - 4.3.1 Elementary Events
• TFNR - 4.3.2 Complex Events
• TFNR - 4.3.3 Events and Action
• TFNR - 7. Action: the Dynamics of the Source
• TFNR - 7.1 The Elementary Action
• TFNR - 7.1.1 Perturbation – Gradient
• TFNR - 7.1.2 Translation - Divergence
• TFNR - 7.1.3 Rotation - Curl
• TFNR - 7.2 Creation: the Dynamics of Elementary Action

Classification

• Topic id: t_propagation
• Belongs to the class: Modes of Action
• Has as instances:
• Belongs to the groups: Dynamics of Action, Operational Agents
• Semantic Map: ekm|map=m_ev_dynamics&topic=t_propagation
• Semantic Map Test Version: ekmt|map=m_ev_dynamics&topic=t_propagation