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Language, Relations and Emergence Toward a Relational Interpretation of Space, Time, Velocity, Energy and Entropy

Mounssif Benchekroun

Published Jun 6, 2026• 0 citations
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This work proposes a systematic development of an analogy between the discrete rela-tional framework and language, in order to shed light on the emergence of usual physicalquantities from a more fundamental structure of relations.Within this perspective, letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and the bookitself are interpreted as hierarchical levels of organization, comparable to relational scenesof increasing richness.The aim is not to reduce physics to linguistics, nor to transform the universe into amere textual metaphor. Rather, language is used as an exemplary structure of discretecomposition, non-commutativity, local and non-local correlations, and emergence of globalcoherence.Such an analogy allows space to be reformulated as relational proximity, time asan order of reading or appearance between scenes, velocity as a rate of variation of aconfguration, energy as a measure of tension or coherence, and entropy as an index ofdispersion of confgurations or admissible interpretations.The book is organized as a conceptual and mathematical foundation intended to beprogressively developed. It begins by recalling the foundations of the discrete relationalframework, then introduces language as a hierarchical model of organization. It thenshows how emergent quantities can be interpreted through this analogy, and fnally opensthe way toward a more rigorous mathematical formalization and future theoretical devel-opments.

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