I'd seen phase diagrams before but had never seen equilibria referred to as "marshes." A Google search seems to confirm that this terminology is virtually unique to Brown, since all I can find are diagrams dealing with the ecology of actual wetlands, publications by people named Marsh, and other books by Courtney Brown. Here's how the term is defined in Brown's Differential Equations: A Modeling Approach:
Especially with social science topics in which change is slow, differential equation systems often do not have a chance to evolve to the point where the system trajectories actually arrive at an equilibrium. In reality, the trajectories "bog down" when they pass anywhere near the equilibrium in what is called an "equilibrium marsh." Placing the equilibrium marshes in the phase diagram is a useful way to identify those areas where trajectory velocity is so slow that the system essentially comes to a near halt even though equilibrium has not been achieved (p. 56).
A similar explanation is given in Serpents in the Sand: Essays in the Nonlinear Nature of Politics and Human Destiny, in the essay "Anatomy of a Landslide," where Brown plots support for the Democratic and Republican parties in the early 1960s and, as in Remote Viewing, uses stippling to indicate equilibrium marshes:
I post this here for possible sync relevance, since marshes -- Thomas B. Marsh, Pokélogan, etc. -- have been a recent theme.
2 comments:
The word 'equilibrium' stood out to me since it showed up in my words from Feb. 2022.
"Uriel" was a word or name that was in the same phrase. I actually didn't take a crack or hazard a guess in the post where I introduced that phrase, because I didn't really have a good reason to involve Uriel or understand how he fit in.
As an alternative to it being a person, I had thought perhaps Uriel might be Elvish instead, as in Uri-el... another name for Sun Star.
However, your post has me thinking a bit more on this, and that perhaps Uriel does actually refer to the angel and is somehow connected with or referring to Thomas Marsh (and thus perhaps Peter).
Along this line of thinking, Uriel was said to hold the keys to the gates of both Eden and Tartarus/ Hell/ The Pit. Marsh-Peter has come up as both a keyholder and doorkeeper.
I'll have to think on it a bit more.
The late John Pratt identified Uriel with Peter.
https://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/2020/angel_constellations.html
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