Physical states

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Definition

A Physical state is any possible configuration of a Physical Field, of the organization of the Physical Relations between Physical Events in / of it, any snapshot of a Physical Process, in its totality or of more or less extended Space-time domains.

More in general, a state of an Physical Entity is represented by the set of the attributes, of the Physical Properties of that Physical Entity, of the Physical Events that occur in / on it and of the Physical Relations that links it to the physical environment (the set of the other existing physical entities).

Configuration of a physical dynamic system, set of the values of the parameters that describe the Physical System. A condition of a property of a Physical System.

The possible configurations (commonly called "states", regimes, phases, etc. with various different meanings) range from complete / absolute chaos (disordered systems) to complete order (ordered systems). Among these extremes we can find all the states of systems, organized states, processes, etc. It is in this territory of organization that we can find the evolution towards the complexity that characterizes the Processes that we see at work in the Formation of Physical Reality.

Physical States does not really exist. Time cannot be stopped. We can take a snapshot, and call that a State. But it is always an abstraction. Physical Systems incessantly evolve, even when they appear static and stable. Physical States, to which Physical Information / Physical Energy correspond, do not exist in Physical Reality, because Time never stops. There are only flows, there are only Physical Events, Physical Action, the products of physical creative sub-processes, the substance of everything, the materials that feed the physical evolutionary sub-processes.

We can observe / consider Physical states essentially at the two macro levels of complexity of Physical Reality:

We must consider these "states" as conditions, modalities of organization of the events that occur in the Elementary Field and that make up its Dynamics.

A proposal of classification:

Common definition

Links to Wikipedia pages:

Description

See also

Links to the related sections of the TFNR Paper

Classification

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