Unlike the laws of governments, the laws of physics are not discretionary.  These inviolable laws determine not how honest individuals should behave but how everyone and everything in our universe must behave.  Put simply, violating the laws of physics is not physically possible. 

The laws of physics determine that the productivity of a knowledge-work system is greatest when one precisely defined sequence of interactions (exchanges of information) progresses at its maximum rate, among the workers of the system.  These laws determine also that the productivity of a knowledge-work system is zero, if the workers of the system never complete the sequence of interactions that comes with each project. 

Ironically, the physical laws preclude all manner of productive effects when one particularly popular condition prevails.  Without fail, the unproductive condition of great popularity occurs whenever multiple tasks must compete for one mind.  When parallel tasks together must pass through that space between knowledge-work ears, all parallel shoulders immediately lock, and all parallel lives locked in conflict expand without nearly a bound.  The effects of this temporal conflict of tasks for one mind are entirely counterproductive.  On this, the laws of good science are clear.  Those knowledge-work systems alone reach highly desirable states of great productivity, whose well-mannered tasks continually pass between knowledge-work ears single-file. 

How must projects queue up at the door, for their tasks to behave in productively orderly ways once inside?

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