Foundations of Energy
How energy is stored, transferred and transformed — from falling objects to living cells.
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22 concepts viewed through this lens. Bridge concepts connect this view to Atomic Physics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Electroacoustics….
Legend
- Focused concept
- Connected concept
- Bridge concept (just outside the lens)
- 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
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Self-healing material
Open concept →At a glance
A material engineered to autonomously repair damage and restore function.
- Disciplines
- Materials Science
- Role in the graph
- Leaf concept
- Relationships
- 1 · 1 relation families
What am I looking at?
In this lens (22)
- illuminated by this discipline
- illuminated by this discipline
- illuminated by this discipline
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Bridge concepts (21)
Just outside the lens — they connect it to other context.
- Geology, Materials Engineering, Mineralogy · connects to Ceramic, Grain boundary, Materials science…
- Chemistry, Materials Engineering · connects to High-entropy alloy, Phase diagram, Shape-memory alloy
- Engineering, Materials Engineering · connects to Aerogel, Materials science, Metamaterial
- Engineering, Physics · connects to Band gap, Perovskite (material), Thin film
- Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Physics · connects to Band gap, Doping (semiconductors), Quantum dot
Insights from this view
Structural observations about the concepts shown here — descriptions of this graph, not claims about the world.
- This view connects 4 disciplines: Chemistry, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry.
- Polymer is a bridge concept — viewed here through Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry.
Relationships as a list
The focused concept’s relationships. Pick another concept in the graph above to update this list.
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A lens is a deterministic projection of the graph. Pick a discipline, thinking pattern or journey to reframe the whole view.
By thinking pattern
Bayesian updatingCause and effectCompoundingConservationConstraintsDefense in depthDiffusion & spreadEmergenceEnergy transformationEntropy & irreversibilityEquilibriumFeedback loopIncentivesInformationLevels & hierarchyModularityNetworksOptimizationOscillationProbabilityRecursion & self-similarityScaleSignal vs noiseSource–pathway–receptorStocks and flowsSymmetry & invarianceThresholds & tipping pointsTrade-offsTriangulationVariation & selectionWaves
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.
About this view
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
Focus a concept, or apply a lens (discipline, mental model, journey) to see only the threads that matter.