Despite the universe’s continuous reorganisation, there exist deep structures that later emergence cannot easily disturb. Electrons are identical everywhere. Fundamental symmetries remain stable. Natural laws hold. In the EC/HE theory this is not arbitrary — it is a direct consequence of the hierarchical structure of the emergence tree.

The earliest attractors in the emergence chain are the most fundamental and robust. But their stability is not due to age alone. It is due to the fact that all later emergence builds further upon these attractors and thereby continuously confirms and supports them. Each new level in the emergence tree incorporates the early attractors into its own structure — and strengthens them further through this incorporation. The more later emergence that rests upon an early attractor, the greater relational support it has, and the more difficult it is to reorganise.

This is why electrons are identical everywhere in the universe. They spring from very early attractors with maximum relational support from all later emergence. To reorganise an electron would require reorganising everything that has since been built upon it — the entire emergence chain above it.

The further out in the emergence tree one goes, the more flexible and local the structures become. Early attractors appear as near-universal stabilities, while higher emergent patterns are more easily reorganised, dissolved and transformed. The leaves of the tree move freely. The roots do not move.

Behind all reorganisation there simultaneously exists a continuous homeward pull towards simpler organisation and higher integration — THE RECOIL PRINCIPLE’s constant draw back towards ONE, in which all emergence is incorporated into one whole. The universe does not expand without limit towards ever greater complexity; all emergence carries within it the opposite movement towards rest, weight and unity. What happens when this movement reaches its extreme is discussed in point 83. Black holes, reversed emergence and the cyclical universe.

The cosmos is neither completely rigid nor completely chaotic. It is a dynamic balance between stability and reorganisation — in which the deepest structures hold, and what is built upon them can change.

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