34 Of States and Transitions

Knowing that the Coordination Law equation exists and what all its terms mean is a crucial first step on your squiggle quest. But what comes next? How do you use it to help you better understand and appreciate the squiggle sense of yourself and world? A useful next step is to become acquainted with the graphs of the model, to learn what they reveal about the squiggles of the Complementary Code. The way scientists do this is ‘feed' the model equation data and plot the outcomes as graphical visualizations. One such primary plot is of phi-dot versus phi ( \(\phi\) ), which means: how phi is changing at the moment versus the current value of phi. Ironically, a common way to begin analyzing this kind of graph is to note where the relative phase, phi isn’t changing. This happens wherever the solution of the equation for phi-dot equals zero. Those relative phases will persist until something in the equation is changed.