Effect of mass is considered one of most important principles in warfare, chess, and all science and strategy.
What is effect of mass, in most simple terms?
Effect of mass means that doing more increases chances of doing something correct.
Effect of mass means that doing more things increases chances of correct thing being included in them.
Effect of mass in more complicated terms means that doing much greater number of different things which could be correct greatly increases chances of one correct thing being done.
Lets say A, B, C, D each have 25% chance to be correct.
Now, doing only A would leave you with 25% chance to be correct, where doing all of those: A, B, C, D increases chances of including correct thing much more than 25%.
this strategy is applied in warfare, where a crucial target is attacked by multiple different things at same time to increase chances of target being destroyed and increase percentage of destruction.
In chess, effect of mass is used where multiple different moves are considered, as a way to find best move among the conisdered ones. the more moves you consider, the greater the chance of considering best move.
In science, many different studies are needed to increase chance of study being correct and reduce chance for mistake and human error.
In trade, effect of mass is used where having contact with more people and having more things to sell increases chances of one thing being sold.
In brain development, being focused on many different things is better than constantly and repeatedly focusing on just one thing over and over, because the former is learning new, the latter is just forever repeating what is already known. Applying more things which increase intelligence is better than applying only 1 thing for more increase in intelligence.
Effect of mass simply works in this way:
- Considering many different things
- Excluding things which wont achieve goal
- Doing mass of things which could achieve goal
- Chance of goal being achieved is increased.
Now, there is also reverse effect of mass, which is something entirely different, a whole different principle which is usually mentioned in religious debates.
Reverse effect of mass means doing less things reduces chances of doing incorrect thing which could cause a goal to not be achieved.
Reverse effect of mass isnt commonly accepted in strategies where goal is known, because goal is rarely achieved by doing nothing.
However, if goal is to do nothing, or if doing nothing achieves a goal, reverse effect of mass applies.
But this is common argument in religion: We dont know what goal has God set for us, and that goal could be to simply do nothing, and if we do something, goal isnt achieved.
Also, there could be anti-goals, where God doesnt want us to do certain things, and when we dont know what those things are, doing anything increases chances of doing incorrect thing.
But problem with this argument is that there is a chance God doesnt want us to do nothing, so doing nothing could be bad as well.
this is why reverse effect of mass doesnt work for religion, but effect of mass does.
Doing more things, more different prayers, more different good deeds, more divine conversations, more religious drawings and more different symbols, more different ways of worshipping God, practicing many names for God, religious sounds and music, more different offerings... increases option-chances of some correct thing being done there.
So even if some incorrect things are done, many correct things would likely be done too, if we go by option-percentage, which is number of chosen options to number of possible options ratio.