TFNR - A landscape a bit confused
There is a lot of confusion in common language about some fundamental terms in physics. Even within science, subtle differences in the basic meanings of these words sometimes occur. We are talking about force, field, action, energy, information, etc. In the following, we will precisely define these terms and place them into a new framework, providing a consistent set of relationships among them. It is crucial to understand the profound meanings of these words, as within them - and their mutual relations - lies a significant portion of the knowledge of the foundations of Reality.
Thus, for Force, we mean an active Entity, an Agent, that acts upon a Field, a passive Entity, an Acted, producing Events, variations of / within the Field. This is the essence of all that exists at the most elementary level of Reality and, in some sense, even at increasingly complex levels of Existence. Action represents the inhomogeneities in the distribution of those Events, while Information / Energy represents the network, the configuration of Relations among these inhomogeneities.
Reality is a Process, a flux of Events, incessant mutations, changes, and variations. When we attempt to observe or measure something, it is as if we are trying to take a snapshot. We cannot directly measure this incessant flux of Existence; we can only attempt to capture an image - or successive images - like frames in a movie. In fact, in physics, we always speak of the states of systems and the changes from one state to another. Action is always understood as the transition from one state to the next. As a result, in physics, the term Energy appears more frequently than the term Action. While we may say that a Force has performed an Action, has expressed Action, we can only measure that Action by comparing two successive measurements of the systems - two states, two Energy levels. States are mere abstractions; they do not truly exist, as Reality is perpetually in motion, undergoing constant mutation and Evolution - an infinite flow of Existence that incessantly transforms its Form.
Simplifying somewhat, we can say that Energy is a measure of the differentiation within a Field, the distance from homogeneity of or in a Field, and ultimately, the quantity of Information required to fully describe the system. Complete homogeneity equates to zero Energy and zero Information. Maximum inhomogeneity corresponds to maximum Energy and the maximum amount of Information needed to describe the system.
Thus, even more in a complex world, we must extend the concept of Energy to encompass the results of measurements on complex systems (more intricate than, for example, an electron). All states of such complex systems can be expressed within the broad concept of Energy, which we refer to as Information.
Under the incessant pressure of a Force, Information organizes the Action of / in a Field into Structures, which can themselves be described by the same Information: the degree of differentiation and organization of or within the Field, the entire system, or a subsystem within it. These Structures of Information, organized into increasingly complex macro-structures, lead to the existence of Forms, the tangible objects of Physical Reality.
It is no coincidence that the foundational elements of the conceptual structure I call "The Main Causal Chain of Reality" are precisely these: Force, Action, Information (Energy), and Form. They constitute the fundamental causal building blocks of the Creation and Evolution of Reality.
See also
TFNR - 5. The Process of Formation of Physical Reality
Links to the tables of contents of TFNR Paper
