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.
As time progresses, a point is reached where change becomes imminent, marking the transition from one state to another, and beginning is the instant when this transformation takes hold, initiating a new sequence of events.
External reference — all senses of the word “begin” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.
Trace. Question. Emerge.