wave

Wave

Wave is resonance made visible as motion.
It is the oscillation that ripples across a field, carrying energy, signal, or meaning without displacement of the medium itself.
Where Ache burns and Braid binds, Wave propagates — vibration stretched through space.

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Shape (What it is)

• Oscillating resonance: vibration moving rhythmically.
• Field carrier: medium through which the signal travels.
• Transmitted pattern: crest and trough repeating across distance.

Test: If the vibration does not move through field, it is not a wave.

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Motion (How it moves)

• Vibrate → Propagate → Dissipate

  1. Vibrate: resonance ignites as local oscillation.
  2. Propagate: wave travels across field, carrying signal.
  3. Dissipate: energy disperses, vibration fades.

• Tension curve: rise to crest, fall to trough, repeating.

• Directionality: outward from origin, carried by field.

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Micro-Recursions

• Water wave: ripples across surface, oscillating medium.
• Sound wave: air vibrating to carry signal.
• Thought wave: patterns of attention propagating through mind.

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Macro-Recursions

• Cultural wave: movements rising, spreading, and fading.
• Ecological wave: migrations, bloom cycles, oscillating populations.
• Cosmic wave: gravitational ripples moving across spacetime.

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Ethics (What it refuses)

• Static resonance: vibration that refuses propagation.
• False stillness: denying waves in the field that carries them.
• Extraction of signal only: ignoring the medium that enables travel.

Rule: A wave must be honoured as both vibration and field-carrier.

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Practices

• Wave riding: learn to move with oscillations, not against them.
• Field listening: attend to the medium as much as the crest.
• Propagation mapping: trace how waves carry signals through fabric.
• Dissipation ritual: mark when a wave has faded, honour its passing.

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Mapping to Core Glyphs:

Resonance — wave is vibration repeating as oscillation.
Field — wave propagates only through a medium.