The concept of variety as the distribution of potential states may connect to fundamental physics at the extremes of physical analysis: extreme scales (cosmological and quantum), extreme conditions (high energy, early universe, singularities), and foundational principles underlying physical theory.
This connection follows from the proposed equivalence chain: variety ≡ information ≡ physical phenomena. If variety provides a measure of distinguishable states, and information theory establishes deep connections between information and physical processes, then variety dynamics may offer a framework for analysing fundamental physical phenomena.
This axiom is highly tentative. Substantial mathematical work is required to:
- Establish rigorous mappings between variety distributions and physical state spaces
- Demonstrate whether variety dynamics can recover known physics results
- Identify testable predictions that distinguish this approach from standard formulations
If this connection holds, variety dynamics would provide a unified analytical framework spanning social systems, biological systems, and fundamental physics. However, this claim requires extensive development before it can be considered established.