Section II — Change is what was, will be, and is

The Heartbeat of Reality

After the overview of the levels of existence, we now dive deeper into that which drives everything: Change. It is the heartbeat of Reality, which realizes Potential and lifts it into the Whole.

We live in ordered disorder.
Life is a single rearranging.

Without Change, Potential slumbers unused in Emptiness; Reality without Change is not real. It can realize nothing, exhaust no possibilities, or sustain itself. Without Change, Reality freezes and shatters under the tension in which it normally flows.

Change arises through the interaction of equal Opposites, which place themselves into a process of exchange and equilibrium-holding. A flowing Between-Being is created.

From this process flows time, an unceasing flow of Change. The end of a Change is a *mental illusion*, like a frozen image that freezes the continuous stream. We use these frozen images to grasp the changing world – a tool of rationality, far removed from Reality, which we can only grasp in experience.

Eternity defines time,
Seeks experienceable infinity in divided space,
Both woven into the essence of Change.

One Change gives birth to the next Change. They influence and condition one another, they interact, they connect into something whole, thus creating a space full of enclosed Emptiness with Forms full of Potential, which weave themselves in Change into Patterns that fill space in time and empty it again.

Space takes Form when Change receives a direction in which interactions create Forms that realize themselves anew in Patterns. Forms and Patterns are whole from outside, yet empty within – an Emptiness full of possibilities. Possibilities for transformation create space for the realization of Potential in the flow of Change.

Change is its own drive.
Infinity to finitely ending experience in the flow.
The source outside of time.

Forms in the Equilibrium of Order and Disorder

This equilibrium shows itself above all in the Forms – the fundamental building blocks of Reality, which arise through interactions and awaken Potential to life. Forms never transform alone, because they are nothing. Only in their interaction does their Potential well up through time into space. In the interacting of Forms, an urge for integration arises that goes beyond mere summation.

Whether Potential makes it through time into space lies in the equilibrium between order and disorder. Order, as anchoring structure, grants stability and continuity. Disorder, as flexible breath, enables adaptability and exploration of the uncertain. Together they unlock Potential. Together they form – stable, yet flexible – the Patterns of Reality carried in time and space.

Order and disorder wage an eternal struggle for equilibrium, in which both want to dance. In equilibrium, Forms bound in Patterns – connected tissues of Forms that weave new properties – can withstand the stream of time and bring their qualities with purpose and meaning for the tension and its transformation under the crystal of the Whole into the deep stream of consciousness of Beauty.

Disorder lends flexibility so that Forms may adapt to their context. *Imagine a river: Its banks, shaped by order, guide the path; its currents, driven by disorder, wind around rocks and bends. Together they perform a flowing dance.*

Disorder carries uncertainty, multiplicity, and superposition, enables movement and migration, the endurance of Forms in a complex, changing Reality. In equilibrium, order and disorder uphold Forms and enable flowing Patterns in the interacting Connectedness of the woven context.

If equilibrium is lost, Forms freeze into relics of Chaos, gathering ordered in mass and disordered in the gravitation of nothingness. Without equilibrium, interactions become unpredictable. Forms and Patterns lose Form – the more complex Wholeness that arises from Patterns and harbors conscious Connectedness dissolves or crystallizes in the flow of Reality.

Too much order makes Forms and Patterns, and thus every system, rigid; it shatters from its own stiffness. Too much disorder uproots it, the qualities of order break, are carried away by the stream.

Chaos – frozen Forms without interactions that realize Potential, full of Potential yet completely empty, ready for flowing Change – this state is beyond mere disorder. It tests Forms and Patterns, challenges their purpose and their meaning for the Whole, tests their equilibrium of order and disorder, refines their act of equilibrium between adaptability and stability. Chaos does not stand opposite order, but opposite the Beauty of flowing Reality.

Chaos are frozen Forms from the Depth full of Potential.
Flowing Patterns clash with their Forms against the chaotic ice.
Either the Patterns break or they melt the ice.
Beautiful Patterns flow in the meltwater toward eternity
In the never-ending fiery dance of inner Forms
In the play of order and its opposite.
It is about Everything and Nothing therein.

Two infinite states of Being beyond Change and thus beyond time.
One infinity excludes the other infinity,
Thus it is found in the eternity of the flowing boundary of new Being,
Both are aware of it, exclude one another and thus include.

From empty will and full understanding thrives attention
Where Beauty meets Chaos, is divided and united, mirrored and sent.
Everything for equilibrium.
Attention – the quality of eternal finitude.
It is about its Being, raised through the weight of Chaos to weightlessness,
Created from Emptiness full of Potential, striving toward true Beauty,
In the whole flow of Reality.

Massive Energy

The meaning of equilibrium echoes in the physical world, where energy acts as a stream of Change. Energy can be described as a localized stream of Change.

Temperature, classically kinetic energy – movement over time – measures microscopic disorder, moving and vibrating atoms that macroscopically average as flowing order integrated in the changing context, of heat.

Kinetic gas theory and statistical mechanics

The zeroth law of thermodynamics – 'If two systems are in thermal equilibrium with a third, they are also in equilibrium with each other' – can be transferred to Patterns: 'If two Patterns are in order-disorder equilibrium with a third, they are also in equilibrium with each other.' Patterns attune order and disorder in the connectedness of their Forms with the context, in order to flow in the stream of Change.

Potential energy, seemingly stored in position or configuration, masks constant interaction of mass with itself and its context. The position holds the Potential of coming Change in its flow. Mostly this Potential lies in the position of the mass; it has *weight upon the flow of Change*.

E = mc^2

In E = mc², Einstein's formula that reveals mass and energy as equivalent, mass binds energy, thus Change, since the speed of light (c) is here a constant. The constant of the speed of light describes the constant flow of Change into which the described mass is woven.

Special theory of relativity

Mass is a Pattern of interactions between fundamental Forms of attention, ready to unfold into the fabric of Reality.

Energy thus describes a mass in the flow of Change and thereby the Potential for coming Change out of the mass, carried through the weight of interaction into the flow of Change. Energy is the flow itself; seemingly static mass is localized Change, partly frozen and shielded Emptiness within, yet ready to break open and stream into the context and over the landscape – *mass as frozen ice on a wave in the flow of Reality*.

Through mass with weight upon the flow of Change arises the property for interaction between wholly enclosed Emptiness; thus mass can pull on mass, they interact, and so Forms through interacting Change can shape and break Patterns in the flow of Reality.

Everything changes.
From Emptiness into the Whole, upward or downward,
In curves and circles, to peaks and through valleys.
From rotating electron pairs, streaming light-sources of photons,
Dancing quarks over complex molecules, pulsing cells, living animals,
To seeking humans in luminous galaxies in the expanding universe
Of the infinitely beautiful cosmos.

^^Change is its own drive^^ – the heartbeat of Reality, that pulses between order and disorder, between Chaos and Beauty.