Hello all,

I'm working on a book for laypeople about the physics project and its implications. I'm very interested in time. Wolfram's illustrative baseline illustration of an abstract relationship between two distinct "emes" or "atoms of space" is, according to Wolfram, "directed," meaning an arrow goes from a to b, and the arrow is required.

My question is a simple one, I hope: What is "directed" in this context? That is, are the arrows (directed relationships) within the collection of elements before the transformation caused by the rule a cause-effect relationship? Is so, does that also represent a time relationship?

I have yet to find any further explanation of "directed relationship" in any of the materials.