Can the stability and transformation of civilizational systems be represented through explicit dynamic variables and competing formal models?
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Hu’s Civilizational Physics
A Systems Theory of Stability, Entropy, Phase Transition, and Collapse
A systems-oriented account of how cooperation, trust, usable capacity, dissipation, feedback, thresholds, and path dependence may shape civilizational stability and transformation.
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Research overview
Civilizational stability is an emergent system property produced by interacting structures and flows rather than by any single institution, resource, leader, or ideology.
Key concepts
01S = (C × Lₑ × Eₙ) / E02Cooperation structure C03Trust field Lₑ04Effective energy Eₙ05Civilizational entropy E06Thresholds, phase transitions, collapse, and recovery
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Research architecture
I · System ontology
Civilization as an open, adaptive, multilayer, information-processing system.
II · Stability variables
Definitions and relations among cooperation, trust, effective energy, entropy, and stability.
III · Dynamics
Feedback, delays, thresholds, nonlinear change, lock-in, and adaptive cycles.
IV · Information and memory
Signals, noise, verification, meaning, institutions, and intergenerational memory.
V · Technology and AI
Dual-use amplification of capacity, concentration, fragility, coordination, and entropy.
VI · Collapse and recovery
Critical transitions, resilience, warning, repair, and ethical boundaries.
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Method and evidence program
Open questions for review
- Q1
Which functional forms best represent interaction among C, Lₑ, Eₙ, E, and S?
- Q2
Can phase-transition claims be distinguished empirically from retrospective storytelling?
- Q3
How do coercive stability, adaptive resilience, legitimacy, and human dignity differ in measurement?
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Academic status and limits
This book is a published foundational research output. Its concepts, equations, classifications, and causal claims remain open to independent review, operationalization, counterexamples, replication, and revision.
“Physics” is used as a systems-research metaphor and formalization program, not as a claim that societies obey deterministic natural laws.Intended readers
Complex-systems researchers, physicists working across disciplines, network scientists, historians, political economists, risk analysts, and formalization collaborators.
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Publication record
Suggested citation
Hu, Aurion. (2026). Hu’s Civilizational Physics. Civilization Science Series. Amazon Kindle edition. ASIN B0H9H2SGHW.
Errata and version record
No edition-specific public errata file is currently linked. Corrections should identify the edition, location, original text, proposed correction, reason, date, and effect on conclusions.