Foundations of Energy
How energy is stored, transferred and transformed — from falling objects to living cells.
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8 concepts viewed through this lens. Bridge concepts connect this view to Biology, Business, Chemistry, Design….
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- Arrow points from cause / source to effect / target
- A line with no arrow is a two-way relationship
- Node colour marks the concept’s primary discipline
7 concepts6 relationships12 disciplines4 relation families
Comparative advantage
Open concept →At a glance
Comparative advantage is an economic principle that explains why people, firms, and countries can often benefit from trade even when one party is more productive at producing every good or service.
- Disciplines
- Economics · Microeconomics
- Role in the graph
- Cross-disciplinary bridge — reaches Ethics, Finance
- Relationships
- 3 · 3 relation families
- Mental models
- 2
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Bridge concepts (15)
Just outside the lens — they connect it to other context.
- Economics · connects to Supply and demand
- Economics · connects to Economic equilibrium
- Economics · connects to Comparative advantage
- Chemistry, Economics, Physical Chemistry, Physics · connects to Economic equilibrium
- Mechanics, Physics · connects to Elasticity
Insights from this view
Structural observations about the concepts shown here — descriptions of this graph, not claims about the world.
- This view connects 12 disciplines: Biology, Business, Design, Economics, Engineering, Ethics, Finance, Mathematics, Microeconomics, Political Science, Public Policy, Systems Engineering.
- Comparative advantage is a bridge concept — viewed here through Economics, Microeconomics.
- The connections here span 4 relation families.
- Trade offs explains 4 concepts in this view (Biology, Business, Design, Economics, Engineering, Ethics, Finance, Microeconomics, Political Science, Public Policy, Systems Engineering).
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The focused concept’s relationships. Pick another concept in the graph above to update this list.
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Concept collections
Concept collections are curated lenses onto the fabric — themed sets of ideas that recur across disciplines. They are not journeys; they are a way to read the graph.
Understanding Systems
Stocks, flows and feedback — why wholes behave in ways their parts do not.
Patterns Everywhere
Regularities that recur across maths, music, nature and art.
How Information Moves
Encoding, signals and noise — the same idea in computers, genes and nerves.
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What this is
Start from one concept and expand outward. The view never shows everything at once — click a node to refocus, filter by relationship type, or switch to an accessible list.
One fabric
3750 concepts and 5051 typed relations form one connected component — no isolated silo.
How to read it
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