Interactions cause different positions and momenta {change}. Interactions exchange energy, particles, or information. Particle interactions can be with other particles or with themselves.
motion
All things are always in motion. Motions use least action, follow geodesics, and are deterministic.
novelty
Only interactions can cause new effects, by perturbing system from outside to make new things or relations.
prediction
Even if determinism is true, no one can predict events before they happen, because people cannot know all positions and momenta precisely.
universe
Universe began with low entropy, unified forces, symmetry, radiation, no matter, and low potential energy, because distances were very small. Interactions caused expansion and changes, with asymmetries, matter, and potential energy.
heat
Matter motions cause collisions that tend to spread matter apart. Forces can pull matter together and change potential energy into kinetic energy. Spreading out causes cooling. Kinetic energy causes heating. Cooling allows matter to stabilize. Heating provides energy for new combinations. Relatively small complex regions can arise. In very large systems, relatively small regions can be planet size.
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