Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.
Always emerges as a temporal state or condition that persists uninterruptedly throughout a specified duration, building upon the concept of duration as a measurable extent of time.
External reference — all senses of the word “always” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.