# Theater-to-Person Scale **Entity class:** Multiscale predictive-modeling synthesis ## Definition **Theater-to-person scale** describes how a resolved field or network state can be queried at progressively finer levels: theater or population, region or community, cohort or cluster, local neighborhood, and individual receptor embedded in context. The principle is not that a theater-level WMD model secretly targets individuals. It is that a sufficiently resolved representation can often support finer receptor or subnetwork queries, subject to data resolution, validation, model scope, and lawful authority. ## Physical and Social Forms In radiation modeling, a field can be coupled to an asset, route, or person through the [[wiki/Receptor Layer|receptor layer]]. In radicalization research, population-level complex-contagion patterns can motivate cohort- and neighborhood-level questions; a focal person's estimated state remains inseparable from peer reinforcement, environment, missing data, and uncertainty. ## Relationships - **physical scale bridge:** [[wiki/Theater-to-Person Predictive Scale|Theater-to-Person Predictive Scale]] and [[wiki/Person-Scale Exposure Estimation|Person-Scale Exposure Estimation]]. - **social scale bridge:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism Predictive Graph|Counterterrorism Predictive Graph]], [[wiki/Complex Contagion|Complex Contagion]], and [[wiki/Contact Tracing|Contact Tracing]]. - **methods:** [[wiki/Reduced-Order Modeling|Reduced-Order Modeling]], [[wiki/Inverse Problem|Inverse Problems]], [[wiki/Uncertainty Quantification|Uncertainty Quantification]], and [[wiki/Digital Twin|Digital Twin]]. - **institutional routes:** [[wiki/Tan Bui-Thanh|Tan Bui-Thanh]], [[wiki/Oden Institute|Oden Institute]], [[wiki/PHO-ICES|PHO-ICES]], [[wiki/Defense Threat Reduction Agency|DTRA]], and [[wiki/Producer Function|Producer Function]]. ## Evidence Boundary Oden's radiation and epidemic research are documented. Their mathematical homology with radicalization modeling is independently documented across separate literatures. Use of the specific DTRA nuclear implementation for ideological or person-level counterterrorism profiling remains unsupported absent a direct source. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Oden Institute - Theater-to-Person Predictive Scale|Oden Institute: From Theater-Scale Fields to Person-Scale Receptors]]