I agree that horizontal-implicit is stronger, but horizontal laws can also be explicit. Most religious communities in the United States have very explicit controls/rule-sets which tie the community together. Horizontal-explicit rules fill voids in the lives of many.

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Explicit laws cannot hold a society together. I now see explicit laws as vertical forces and vertical forces are, in the end, no match for horizontal forces. The problem with our harmonically challenged society is not that it is held together with explicit laws. The problem is that it has two different sets of horizontal forces combined in one society and using one set of implicit laws. This defies the physics law of matter occupying only one space at one time. What makes this seemingly impossible situation possible is that the horizontal forces use only one set of implicit laws so the harmony is the same. The difference is that there are two vertical forces supported by the two different horizontal forces. Because vertical forces act on horizontal forces, the problem of harmony is born because each vertical force acts against the other common horizontal force.

One horizontal force is communal and the other one individualistic. This leads to discourse not only because each vertical force acts on the other horizontal force, but also because each horizontal force naturally move between totalitarian and individualistic; between communal and anarchy; and back.

If it were not for the vertical force attributes of explicit laws, explicit laws would be able to hold societies together. As it is, they would only be a temporary fix.

I still agree with my Orwell statement.

You show no lines off the yellow blocks of the Russian police still attached to the enemy. Even if it was legit, I would expect to see either lawyer, family members and other partners with the enemy still attached to the Russian Police. In fact when the enemy is let go by the police, he now takes a piece of your company and begins another attack somewhere else.

I’m trying to see a win-win situation here and it is hard to see. The mercenary is now stronger than your enemy was. The enemy, if he survives, is now just a little smarter than before. You also have the fact you are dealing with, at least in some context, the Russian police. My guess is you will suffer another attack simply because there are too many people relying on the enemy to attack so they can be rewarded.

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A couple years ago I had to take a physics course, physics 201, to complete my associate’s degree requirement in mechanical engineering. I wasn’t able to take PHY 202 but was able to take PHY 203 and it was better than the first term. The courses were illuminating for me and I haven’t been able to turn my mind off since. I hope that doesn’t sound too weird, but what I mean is that I ended my training, to become a mechanical technician, studying cylinder regeneration as a means for water desalinization. I studied cylinder regeneration for about a year and It turned out my idea was just the opposite of what was needed and someone else had the correct idea. While the project was disappointing, the amount of analysis I had to use to completely understand cylinder regeneration was tremendous, at least for me. To understand cylinder regeneration you need to understand the energy equation, and quantum physics.

It is my guess that the reason physicists maybe able to comprehend your theories so well is because there is only one science and that science is physics. That is not to say that history or political science is not science, what I mean to say is that political science is basic physics.

Of course this is only my theory. Physics is basically about: the sum of all forces is equal to zero, or the sum of all forces is not equal to zero. When all the forces are equal to zero you have no movement. When the forces are not equal you then have movement. I believe the horizontal and vertical components of society are forces and can be examined as forces. That is why I say political science is basic physics.

The vertical component and horizontal component of society are forces. The vertical force destroys, or not, horizontal forces. The horizontal force fans out in all directions horizontally and supports its own vertical force, and forms its base. The defining boundaries of the horizontal force depend on how all the pieces fit together, or harmony of the society. The vertical and horizontal forces now form a society and are equal in strength. The implicit laws of that society act like the frequency of a particle-wave to combine the two forces into a strong society. Without frequency there is no particle-wave. Without implicit laws there is no society.

A society can be held together with explicit laws, but, because explicit laws are always changing, the harmony, or frequency of the lightwave, is jagged and sometime destructive (civil war). Therefore, ways to keep the society in harmony are always being invented and reinvented, consciously or unconsciously. I guess that kind of brings us back to my discussion of 1984, the book, from another posting. Orwell is describing the ultimate way to keep a harmonically challenged society from tearing its’ oneself apart, us.

I can see how horizontal and vertical attacks can be equal, however I believe the horizontal attack to be exponentially more so. When you say nonviolent and peer-to-peer it sounds like it has less importance. While it maybe nonviolent, I believe its potential for destruction is far greater than that of the vertical attack. While they may have killed or captured the attacker, did they actually destroy the conditions that produced the attacker? While the short-term solution was effective, it didn’t equal the amount of destruction the attacker could have caused. In other words it is a matter of diminishing returns by simply going after the attacker all the time.

I see the vertical and horizontal parts of society as electro magnetic radiation or a particle-wave. A particle-wave is made up of potential energy. The magnetic potential acts like the vertical society. Vertically it acts like a particle and creates the “punch” similar to how wars act.

The electrical potential acts similar to the horizontal society. Whither the horizontal component is destroyed, destroys, or coexists depends on its frequency or harmony that it has on both inside and outside forces.

If you can actually compare horizontal and vertical societies to a particle-wave, the important comparison would be between the two horizontal and vertical components. While the vertical component packs the punch, it is the horizontal component that really does the damage. This is because if you double the vertical component you double the impact the particle-wave has on its surroundings. However if you double the frequency you have 4 times the intensity of the particle-wave. This is because the horizontal component has area. The vertical component has only height or amplitude but the horizontal component spreads out in all directions, which gives it an area of interest. Anything with area has to have an exponent in it.

I think it was Mark Safranski who said to watch out for things that change exponentially because a rule-set re-set is about to happen. While the vertical and horizontal components of a particle-wave are equal in force, the horizontal one really predicts whither the particle-wave lives or dies. I think the same can be said about a vertical or horizontal attack. It is not how many times you destroy the attacker; it is the condition of the homeland that is important. I think connectedness does define both safety and power; you just have to watch who you connect with.

” While the vertical component packs
the punch, it is the horizontal component that really does the damage.”

In this sentence Larry just summarized why a System Perturbation attack or event is so devastating.

Very well done ! I'm going to have email this one to Tom.

Larry, how long has your interest been in physics ? In my experience physicists tend to swiftly ” get” the Sys Perturb. concept in PNM and grasp the implications faster than most ppl.