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17 postulates related to Physics. Space 1 The universe is physical space. 2 Mathematical space has no physical existence. Mass 3 That which does not have any mass, does not exist in a physical sense. No "point particle" is without mass, it either exists and contains mass, or contains no mass and therefore does not exist. 4 The ONLY fundamental particle is solid, indestructible, uncompressable equal in all apsects, perfectly shaped, (unit) spheres. 5 Spheres have no intinsic charge. 6 Sphere clusters can be quantized with respect to the distance between innermost and outermost spheres. 7 All mass is in constant motion.

Light 8 All light has mass. 9 A point source only exists as a mathematical concept and does not exist in a physical sense. 10 A true sphere cannot exhibit a wave pattern, nor show precession, nor possess any other physical abnormalities, either on the interior or the exterior. Time 11 Simultaneous time can be established at multiple locations. Motion Absolute Sequence Physical Constants. Emergent Systems. Principia Cybernetica. Systems Thinking World-Wide Portal: Alphabetized_Master_List< Systems thinking. Systemic Functional Theory. The founder of SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL THEORY, M.A.K. Halliday, characterizes its origins as follows in his entry on "systemic theory" in the Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Pergamon Press): Systemic, or Systemic-Functional, theory has its origins in the main intellectual tradition of European linguistics that developed following the work of Saussure.

Like other such theories, both those from the mid-20th century (e.g. Prague school, French functionalism) and more recent work in the same tradition (e.g. that of Hagge), it is functional and semantic rather than formal and syntactic in orientation, takes the text rather than the sentence as its object, and defines its scope by reference to usage rather than grammaticality. Its primary source was the work of J.R. Firth and his colleagues in London; as well as other schools of thought in Europe such as glossematics it also draws on American anthropological linguistics, and on traditional and modern linguistics as developed in China. Management and Information Systems in Human Services: Implications for the Distribution of Authority and Decision Making (Haworth Series in Social Work Practice): Books: Richard K. Caputo. Introduction to Principia Cybernetica.