The Unified Transition Theory™ by Glenn Olien

“Revealing the underlying structure of change”

The Unified Transition Theory proposes the human potential for change can be represented by a fractal object of 33 parts."

Murray Gell-Mann wrote about the power of theory, stating, “All around us are facts that are related to one another. Of course they can be regarded as separate entities and learned that way. But what a difference it makes when we see them as part of a pattern! Many facts then become more that just items to be memorized – their relationship permits us to use a compressed description, a kind of theory, a schema, to apprehend and remember them. They begin to make some sense. The world becomes a more comprehensible place.”

'The Unified Transition Theory' allows you to see facts about change as part of a pattern in the form of the charts. The volume of available data on the human potential change is large. All this information can be compressed into the pattern made by a fractal object of 33 parts.

For any theory to work it must be able to unfold and re-expand to account for a specific situation. The unfolding of the ‘Unified Transition Theory ‘happens when people use the charts for a specific transition. Every specific change in human potential must be able to be unfolded out of the fractal object and compressed back in. So far this is the case. This concept of “so far this is the case” is another important part of a theory. A theory must be able to be to be proved false by experiment and testing. All changes in human potential can be tested to see if they can be compressed into the fractal pattern and unfolded again to the specific change.

A theory must also be able to predict the future to some extent. A fractal object with 33 parts does unfold into the future in a deterministic manner. It is the cause and effect relationships between the parts that makes it unfold in a deterministic way, however because so many parts have similar structures they can create the “butterfly effect” or the “elephant effect.” The fractal nature of the object allows feedback loops to make the future unpredictable over time. The ‘Unified Transition Theory Fractal’ can change structure at the speed of light or it can slowly evolve. The Unified Transition Theory Fractal is deterministic yet unpredictable. The simple pattern of this fractal can generate the same level of complexity found in human potential for change. The fractals ability to generate this complexity is an imposed ‘limitation’ of the application. The future structure of the fractal object is, like your own future, deterministic yet unpredictable. The images created by the charting process are only pictures of a potential future and are not necessary images of future events.

In the beginning of what Murray Gell-Mann states about the power of theory was in the power resulting from seeing facts as a part of a pattern and thus making the world a more comprehensible place, It will be up to you if the Unified Transition Theory makes your world a more comprehensible place.