Frequency Mechanics

A speculative branch of physics proposing that the fundamental nature of reality is not particulate (made of tiny balls) but vibrational (made of standing waves, frequencies, and resonances). In this view, what we perceive as solid matter, forces, and even time are emergent properties of underlying vibrational patterns in a field or substrate. "Mechanics" here refers to the study of the motion and interaction of these frequency-based entities. It suggests that changing an object's fundamental frequency could alter its mass, location, or phase of existence—the ultimate "vibe shift" as physics.

Example: In the sci-fi novel The Light of Other Days, a "quantum disentangler" works on principles of Frequency Mechanics, tuning into the specific vibrational signature of an object's atoms to render it intangible. A simpler example: the theory that consciousness arises from the gamma wave frequency synchrony of neuron firing, not just the neurons themselves, is a slice of frequency-based mechanics applied to biology.

by Dumu The Void February 4, 2026

Fractal Mechanics

A theoretical framework that extends classical mechanics to systems with fractal geometry or fractal dynamics. Traditional mechanics assumes smooth, differentiable trajectories and boundaries. Fractal Mechanics relaxes these assumptions, allowing for paths that are continuous but nowhere differentiable, surfaces with infinite perimeter, and force distributions that are statistically self-similar across scales. It's the physics of mountains, clouds, and cracked earth—where the Euclidean ideal meets the jagged real.

Fractal Mechanics Example: Modeling crack propagation in a heterogeneous material requires Fractal Mechanics. The crack doesn't advance smoothly; it jumps, branches, and halts, its path a fractal trace of the material's internal stresses. The energy release isn't continuous but cascades across scales. Traditional fracture mechanics fails; fractal mechanics, parameterizing the crack's fractal dimension and scaling exponents, succeeds in predicting failure.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Dynamical-Complex Mechanics

A frontier discipline that applies the tools of dynamical systems theory to complex, adaptive, and networked systems. It doesn't just track a few interacting particles; it models millions of agents, each with internal states, learning rules, and heterogeneous connections. Dynamical-Complex Mechanics asks: How do traffic jams emerge from individual driving decisions? How do ideologies spread across a social network? How do ecosystems reorganize after a perturbation? It's physics for the messy, living world.

Dynamical-Complex Mechanics Example: An epidemiologist using Dynamical-Complex Mechanics doesn't just model SIR compartments. They simulate a city of millions, each agent with age, occupation, household composition, and daily movement patterns. They model the virus's dynamics within a host and the host's behavioral response to news of the outbreak. The resulting "mechanics" is not a single equation but a computational universe—yet it still seeks laws, patterns, and phase transitions in the collective dynamics.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Dynamical Mechanics

The study of motion and force in systems that evolve continuously over time, bridging classical mechanics and dynamical systems theory. It extends Newtonian physics to systems with feedback, nonlinearity, and time-dependent parameters. Where classical mechanics asks "Where will this cannonball land?", Dynamical Mechanics asks "How will this pendulum's swing evolve as energy dissipates, as friction changes with temperature, as the pivot point oscillates?" It's mechanics that respects the fourth dimension.

Dynamical Mechanics Example: Predicting the orbit of a satellite isn't just solving Newton's laws once. It's Dynamical Mechanics: accounting for atmospheric drag that changes with solar activity, gravitational perturbations from the moon and sun that shift over years, and the subtle pressure of sunlight on the solar panels. The orbit isn't a static ellipse; it's a trajectory in phase space, a continuous negotiation between multiple, time-varying forces.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Dynamic Mechanicism

A hybrid philosophical and methodological stance that treats complex, evolving systems as if they were machines, but acknowledges that these machines are constantly changing their own structure, rules, and components. It's the intellectual offspring of classical mechanics and systems theory: you still look for gears, levers, and feedback loops, but you accept that the gearbox redesigns itself mid-operation. Dynamic Mechanicism refuses to abandon the analytical power of mechanistic thinking while grudgingly admitting that the "machine" has a mind of its own. It's the engineering equivalent of trying to fix a car that's also a chameleon.

Dynamic Mechanicism Example: A Dynamic Mechanicist studying a financial market doesn't just model it as static supply-demand curves. They model it as an adaptive network of interacting algorithms, each one learning and changing its behavior based on market outcomes. The "mechanism" isn't fixed; it's a population of evolving strategies. Yet they still speak in terms of feedback, equilibrium, and control—mechanistic vocabulary for a post-mechanistic world.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Mechanical Cognition Sciences

An approach to studying the mind that models cognitive processes as sequences of discrete, rule-governed operations on symbolic representations. This is the classic "computer metaphor" of cognition: perception inputs data, working memory buffers it, a central processor applies logical rules, and output is produced. It treats thinking as computation, and the brain as the hardware running the software. This paradigm powered the cognitive revolution and remains indispensable for many applications, though its limitations are increasingly apparent.

Mechanical Cognition Sciences Example: Early expert systems in artificial intelligence were pure Mechanical Cognition. Programmers interviewed human experts, extracted their decision rules (IF symptom A AND test B THEN diagnosis C), and encoded them in software. The system "thought" by mechanically applying these rules. This worked for well-defined domains like mineral prospecting but failed spectacularly for common sense, metaphor, or any task requiring flexibility. The rules were too rigid; the world refused to stay within their IF-THEN boundaries.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Mechanical Human Sciences

A mechanistic paradigm for understanding individual human beings, viewing the person as a biological machine whose components (genes, neurotransmitters, cognitive modules) can be isolated, studied, and repaired independently. It is the philosophy behind much of biomedicine and behavioral psychology: identify the broken part, fix or replace it, restore normal function. This approach has achieved astonishing successes (antibiotics, joint replacements) but struggles with conditions where the "machine" metaphor breaks down.

Mechanical Human Sciences Example: Testosterone replacement therapy for low libido is Mechanical Human Science. The logic is straightforward: identify a deficient hormone, supplement it, restore function. This works beautifully when the system is truly a simple input-output machine. It fails when the "deficiency" is caused by stress, relationship conflict, or depression—states that are not mechanical failures but adaptive responses the machine metaphor cannot comprehend.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026