The Dance of Contact: The Mixology of Interaction
In many encounters between bodies (objects, billiard balls, molecules, minds, dynamic systems, small infinites, etc.) neither body simply "pushes" the other. Each body leaves the encounter carrying some component of the other's characteristics (momentum, direction, rotation, emotion, train of thought, attention, memory). In a sense, the bodies inherit parts of each other's state. This process of inheriting may be called trajectory inheritance, impact inheritance, interaction inheritance, or dynamic interaction inheritance.
These interactions provide a form of mixing where two or more bodies impact each other such that many of them are changed. If the bodies are complex or participate in large numbers of impacts, the changes can not be predicted without knowing the state of all involved, which is for all practical purposes, is not known to an observer and thus is experienced as random.
This results in an engine of mixing, where a randomly selected set of complex bodies, leaving a randomly selected set of impressions on each other, the impressions internalized to each, ready to be mixed within each, before potentially moving on to participate in any number of future mixing interactions.
This is an n-body “problem”, an n-body mixing opportunity, an n-body mixing engine, where each body donates a history, a trajectory, and the impressions collected over their lifetime of sojourns from mixing event to mixing event.
Concept Field
[N-body dynamics within Infinity Space, n-body, phase-space trajectory, astrodynamics, oblique approach, contact mechanics, angular momentum, oblique approach, mixing processes, Indra's net, mixer mechanics, internal mixer, mixology, social lives of infinite systems, mixing processes, internality, encapsulation, large numbers of small things, large numbers of small things, Artificial life, state space, contact improvisation, randomization, stochastic, pseudorandom, random walk, randomization]
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