Civilizations live and die based on memory, flows and properties of the gravitational potential

Richard Collins wrote:  I have lived a life like Forrest Gump, always in the background doing things where famous people and events converge. At the US Federal Transit Administration I got to see how the maglev and all their projects and initiatives were designed and handled. It was systemically rotten – the system forgetting what it has done and knows – not keeping and sharing the whole picture and context with all who could make a difference. Countries, cities, corporations, civilizations are primarily memory and when that is allowed to die, so does the civilization. The more complex, the more important and complete the memory required.

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Richard Collins wrote:

Just to be clear, it is the gravitational potential that flows. And the forces are the instantaneous gradients of that changing potential. There is advection, convection and diffusion. There is turbulence, cavitation, circulation, vorticity, compression, tension, and changes of states. Not all those in all places and times vet, overall, every kind of behavior can be expected.

Your open acceptance and recording of what “is” is much better than forcing everything into too tight and incomplete templates.

If you only look for a few things, that is all you will see. If those things are not seen, the things that are there will remain invisible and unusable. The average diffusion rate is the speed of light and the average speed of gravitational potential waves of various sorts. Solitons and compressible solitons. But in regions of high energy density, the flows can be shock waves. With Mach numbers for gravity that are as useful as the ones for compressible gases which made the speed of sound no longer a barrier, but a tool and a useful set of precisely known property.