Multi-tiered Coordinated Planning
A Challenging Project
One of the most complicated projects ever undertaken by humanity is the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). ITER is a large-scale scientific experiment aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy. No less than 35 countries are involved in this project.
The ITER project is in fact a "miniature" example of multi-tiered coordinated planning:
- Advanced Technology: It requires cutting-edge technology to create and maintain the extreme conditions necessary for nuclear fusion, including temperatures of over 150 million degrees Celsius.
- International Collaboration: Coordinating skills and material contributions from multiple countries, each bringing different technologies, standards, and expertise.
- Engineering Challenges: The reactor’s components must be precisely manufactured and assembled to withstand the intense conditions inside the reactor.
Construction platform for the ITER project -- Image source: https://www.iter.org/
An Exceptionally Challenging Project
But now consider another very much larger and more complex project, and imagine that you are the principle Project Manager (often called the Program Manager) overseeing all of these projects in concert.
Each of the projects below are required to be individually managed with skilful planning for the successful completion of the overall program. The projects will not necessarily be sequential, but some will need to be completed before the initiation of other projects. Nevertheless, all projects must be completed by intelligent, carefully coordinated advanced planning.
How would you organise and execute these projects, to present them to your employer as completed, successful tasks? And how will you coordinate these projects to complete the entire program successfully?
PROJECTS REQUIRING COORDINATED PLANNING
Atoms
Project Tier 1
The smallest components will require a set of built-in laws that will enable the atom to function as a building block for other, larger components.
They must also include properties and functionality that will enable the completion of subsequent projects.
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But isolated atoms are of no real value, until they are deployed in later projects.
Molecules
Project Tier 2
This project will use the attributes and properties of components created in the first project, Tier 1, to produce a more complex building block capable of interacting meaningfully with a variety of other molecules.
Molecules must also include properties and functionality that will enable the successful completion of each of the subsequent projects.
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But isolated molecules are of no real value, until they are deployed in later projects.
Cells
Project Tier 3
Cells will be composed of multiple molecules developed in the Tier 2 project, including large molecules that are built from smaller molecules.
Each cell will contain billions of complex organic machines for the performance of a variety of duties that benefit the cell as a whole.
Cells will also perform production tasks for the benefit of other cells.
They will also contain a list of instructions for the development and construction of spare parts that will be requested by the cell's multiple machines as and when required.
The completed cells will have built-in functions including: self-defence, self-repair, self-monitoring, self-regulation, cell-autonomy, and self-reproduction.
These will be produced in a variety of formats for different forms of life planned for later projects.
Cells of like-design and purpose must group together in preparation for Tier 4.
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But isolated cells are of no real value, until they are deployed in later projects (with apologies to single-celled organisms!)
Organs
Project Tier 4
At this level, large critical components will be constructed based on the properties of the cells from Tier 3, each providing a purpose for the completed organisms in Tier 8.
Many billions of cells will be grouped in an ordered way to complete each organ. For example, the average human liver will require as many as 300 billion cells and its functionality will be diverse!
The DNA blueprint must be built into the cells of all body organs, enabling self-regulation, self-management, and self-repair for each organ.
In addition, every organ is required to successfully coordinate with the activities of other organs. They will grow and function according to instructions provided in the DNA molecule.
These will also be produced in a variety of organised formats for different purposes.
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But isolated organs are of no real value, until they are deployed in the final project.
Stars
Project Tier 5
The successful completion of the first two projects, atoms and molecules, along with the functionality of gravity, will have allowed for the development of stars, for the provision of light, energy, and essential heavier elements.
Stars are required to have sufficient longevity to remain useful for a considerable time. They must also be self-perpetuating, and possess many other attributes (for example, the fine balance between the outward force of nuclear fusion and the inward force of gravity) to sustain their versatility and usefulness.
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However, stars are of no real value unless life exists to make use of them.
Planets
Project Tier 6
Employing attributes and properties from the items produced in Tiers 1, 2 and 5, planets will be developed. Some of these will provide a safe, secure, and pleasant environment for the subsequent production of life in Tier 8.
These planets will depend, for their "pleasant environment," on the successful completion of previous Tiers.
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However, life-capable planets are of no real value unless life exists to make use of them.
Galaxies
Project Tier 7
Galaxies must become islands for many billions of stars.
They will also serve as nurseries for the perpetual automatic production of additional stars, and the assimilation of the material of stars that have died.
Stars produced in Tier 5, will have additional properties when grouped together by gravity. Therefore, by means of gravity, together with dark matter and dark energy (or their up to date theoretical equivalents), the vast cosmic web will provide a nursery for the perpetual self-management of galaxies and of the universe as a whole.
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However, none of the items produced in the first 7 projects will be of any real value, unless life exists to make use of them...
Life
Project Tier 8
At this level, the purpose of the previous projects becomes apparent.
Projects 1-7 must be complete and signed off before the inception of this project.
Only by using the complete set of body organs (as per the blueprint) produced in Tiers 3 and 4 can life function adequately, providing sufficient comfort. Only by providing energy and light in Tier 5, can life be possible and continue to be sustained. And only by completing Tiers 6 & 7 can life have an adequate and pleasant environment.
When all required components from Tier 4 (namely a full set of body organs) have been detailed in the blueprint of DNA, and the first examples of each form of life are created, this will qualify as the finished product and the completion, not only of this Tier, but of the entire program.
The DNA blueprint will be built into these initial forms of life, enabling continuous self-perpetuation for each kind.
Life will thus be produced in a variety of formats, using different organ formations and features, selecting from the extensive variety of characteristics developed in Tiers 3 & 4.
This will contribute to the immense variety of plant and animal life, in addition to human life.
"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
-- Planetary Scientist Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
Intrinsic "Laws"
Imagine how enormous the list of natural items would be, if we include everything from the tiniest ultramicroscopic particles to the enormous galactic cosmic web! As is made clear from the above multi-project exercise, every object in that progressive list is subject to intrinsic immutable “laws” or properties (the “laws of physics”) that are each inviolable and independent yet are all in perfect harmony like an enormous exquisite symphonic masterpiece.
Scientists struggle even to fully understand many of these laws, but they are unable to explain their origin -– i.e. although there are theories that attempt to describe the origin of “matter,” no serious attempt is made to explain empirically the origin of these critical, physical, fundamental “laws.”
Regarding the "laws of nature," the famous physicist Erwin Schrödinger, wrote: "Incredibly small groups of atoms, much too small to display exact statistical laws, do play a dominating role in the very orderly and lawful events within a living organism."
And famous physicist Albert Einstein wrote: "The real laws of nature are much more restrictive than the ones we know. For instance would it not violate our known laws, if we found electrons of any size or iron of any specific weight? Nature however only realises electrons of a particular size and iron of very specific weight."
Like a beautiful and well-crafted jigsaw, all the items in the aforementioned "list" fit perfectly together to accomplish the overall "project" of an expanding, ever-changing universe, well-suited for life.
There is, though, a significant difference between the jigsaw analogy and the "multi-tiered project" under discussion: The latter has pieces that fit with *all* other pieces, not just the ones closest to it!
Therefore, if evolution itself was in the dock, under cross examination, without a doubt the barrister would persist with the question, "Where did these laws come from"?
What is your conclusion?
Infinity and Stupidity
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.”
— Albert Einstein
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