Foundations of Energy
How energy is stored, transferred and transformed — from falling objects to living cells.
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85 concepts viewed through this lens. Bridge concepts connect this view to Agricultural Engineering, Agriculture, Archaeology, Atmospheric Science….
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22 concepts24 relationships14 disciplines6 relation families
Tropical cyclone
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A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.
- Disciplines
- Earth & Space Sciences · Meteorology
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- Relationships
- 2 · 2 relation families
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In this lens (85)
Bridge concepts (98)
Just outside the lens — they connect it to other context.
- Atmospheric Science, Environmental Science, Geography, Meteorology, Physics · connects to Albedo, Climate change, Climate model…
- Atmospheric Science, Geography, Meteorology, Physics · connects to Atmospheric circulation, Earth, Ozone layer…
- Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geography, Geology, Sustainability Science · connects to Carbon sink, Carbonate–silicate cycle, Cycle
- Biology, Chemistry, Oceanography · connects to Humidity, River, Water cycle
- Climate Science, Environmental Science · connects to Climate change, Climate model
Insights from this view
Structural observations about the concepts shown here — descriptions of this graph, not claims about the world.
- This view connects 14 disciplines: Atmospheric Science, Biology, Chemistry, Climatology, Earth & Space Sciences, Environmental Science, Geography, Geology, Geophysics, Mechanics, Meteorology, Oceanography, Physics, Seismology.
- Tropical cyclone is a bridge concept — viewed here through Earth & Space Sciences, Meteorology.
- The connections here span 6 relation families.
- Feedback loop explains 5 concepts in this view (Atmospheric Science, Climatology, Earth & Space Sciences, Environmental Science, Geography, Meteorology, Oceanography, Physics).
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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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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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