What it is: six ways a thing's motion can be described — position, inertia, momentum, speed, acceleration, jerk. You treat each as its own dimension, not as a derivative of the others.
The ternary part: each one carries a −/0/+ (opposing / still / aligned), and splits into linear (along the axis) and spin (rotation). So one motion = several state channels.
Why it's first: motion is what everything else acts on.
What it is: the four fundamental forces — gravity, electromagnetic, strong, weak. Any change in motion is driven by one (or more) of these.
Why it's separate: it tracks the provenance of a force — where the push actually came from — which most models throw away.
What it is: the mechanical shape of a force — shear, tension, compression, torque.
The honest caveat (the constraint layer enforces it): shear/tension/compression need structure — bonds, a continuum. At the scale of a single particle they mostly switch off; only net force and net torque survive. So this layer is real for materials, mostly disabled for lone particles.
The key shift: material isn't "stuff" and it isn't a force — it's a constraint on how forces can express motion.
Material properties (density, stiffness, viscosity, conductivity…) are response dimensions — they scale and damp the force→motion path.
States of matter (solid / liquid / gas / plasma) are constraint topologies — each one turns whole motions and force-types on or off. Solid allows shear; gas doesn't; plasma lets the electromagnetic force dominate. A phase change is a topology change, not a force change.
What it is: multiply it out — 6 motions × (linear+spin) × (−/0/+) × 4 sources × 4 types = 576 possible states per axis. Three axes ≈ 190 million before anything else.
The honest truth: this is a rich, overcomplete alphabet — most of these states no real system can ever occupy. It's letters, not language.
What it is: the rule-set that keeps only the physically legal states. It runs in two regimes with a flag — Newtonian (big/slow) or Quantum (tiny/isolated).
Universal rules: conservation (energy / momentum / angular momentum / charge), causality (cause before effect, finite speed), locality.
Newtonian rules: force → acceleration only; inertia resists acceleration not velocity; spin only changes under torque; shear/tension/compression need structure.
Quantum rules: state is a wavefunction; Δx·Δp ≥ ħ/2 (can't pin position and momentum both); changes are discrete; spin is intrinsic, not literal rotation.
What it does: collapses 576/axis down to tens. This is the piece that turns a speculative alphabet into real physics.
What it is: the compact, physically-legal basis left after the constraints prune the alphabet — your 27D.
The crucial framing: these are state dimensions, not space dimensions. 27D = the number of legal ways a thing can be and change — exactly where a ternary (−/0/+) representation beats a binary one.
Why it's addressable: because it's small and legal, every state has an address — it can be stored, simulated, and engineered. That's what makes it a system, not a theory.