Everything in this library rests on a single idea: a coherent system is a network of coupled oscillators whose connections are alive, and left to run by their own rule they climb a quantity we call coherence capital. This is where that idea is built from nothing, interactively, so the other essays can simply point here instead of repeating it.
Five short, self-contained chapters. By the end you will have dragged oscillators into sync, watched a network discover that pure unison is death, met the local rule that grows connectivity by what coheres, seen why coherence has an arrow the way entropy does, and watched a substrate store a memory as the shape of a landscape and recall it by settling. Nothing here requires graduate physics; every term is built before it is used.
Where to go nextOnce the foundation is in hand, two essays build on it: α from first principles takes this law down to the vacuum and derives the fine structure constant; The Physics of Mind takes it up to intelligence and consciousness as one phenomenon at the edge of a phase transition.
A note on interactionNumbers in the prose that look like this can be dragged. Sliders in panels work the usual way. Everything runs in your browser — no data leaves your machine.