If controlling one part determines the behavior of all the others, it is because they are organized that way. Without the organization, there's no special influence to be had. It's a separate problem. To some degree, it means learning how to be interested in, and to watch things, that are a little out of control, and then to identify the locally opportunistic mechanisms that develop to bring about some order. Once those have taken place things can then potentially be predicted and controlled.
Scientific writing makes difficult reading.
It's not just that science involves special terminology and complicated methods, its also that scientists have highly enriched sets of images that originate from direct observation of their physical subjects, things no one else may observe as closely, so it's can be hard to know what's being talked about. One of the keys to good science is a scientist's personal immersion in the details of the physical subject. That's the intuitive basis of science. Scientists have extensive collections of images in their minds that they are referring to, that they didn't get from just reading. The physical subject here is the pattern of little accelerations of change found at the beginning and end of most events.