Difference between revisions of "TFNR - Paper Contents"

Revision as of 16:10, 26 June 2024

Paper Abstract

• Paper Abstract - (T)

1. Introduction

• 1. Introduction - (T)
• 1.1 The Research Project - (T) - (S)
• 1.2 The main questions about Physical Reality - (T) - (S)
• 1.3 Crisis? What Crisis? - (T) - (S)
• 1.4 Very important hypotheses about Reality - (T) - (S)
• 1.5 The global vision - (T) - (S)
• 1.6 How our world works… a new System of Knowledge - (T) - (S)
• 1.7 Reality and Knowledge - (T) - (S)
• 1.8 A new framework: Evolutionary Physics as part of Evolutionary Knowledge - (T) - (S)
• 1.9 Terminological conventions - (T) - (S)
• 1.10 In summary: some fundamental terms - (T)

2. A first look

• 2. A first look - (T)
• 2.1 Knowledge - (T)
• 2.2 Reality - (T)
• 2.3 Microcosm - Physics - (T)
• 2.4 Macrocosm - Cosmology - (T)

3. Reality? Universe?

• 3. Reality? Universe? - (T)
• 3.1 Reality - Existence - Essence (Form) – The Process of Formation (Creation and Evolution) - (T) - (S)
• 3.2 Reality is a Process - (T) - (S)
• 3.3 A landscape a bit confused - (T) - (S)
• 3.4 Looking at the world - The mark of the Source: the Force in Action - (T) - (S)
• 3.5 Why there is something rather than nothing - (T) - (S)
• 3.6 What exists? - (T) - (S)
• 3.7 What exists is what happens. What happens is what exists. Entities and Events - (T) - (S)
• 3.8 What we see in the world, what is really fundamental? - (T) - (S)
• 3.9 Creation "and" Evolution: two complementary aspects of Formation - (T) - (S)
• 3.10 Action and Information: the core of Reality - (T) - (S)
• 3.11 Existence and Essence - (T) - (S)
• 3.12 Nothing is absolute, everything is relative and evolves - (T) - (S)
• 3.13 Why the term "formation" is so central in this system of knowledge - (T) - (S)
• 3.14 The world in the terms of complex interactions of elementary (sub) processes: the construction of Reality - (T) - (S)
• 3.15 Reverse engineering of Reality: a case study - (T) - (S)
• 3.16 A recipe for cooking Reality - (T)
• 3.17 A box full of nothing - (T)

4. The Fundamental Nature of Reality

• 4. The Fundamental Nature of Reality - (T)
• 4.1 The Origin of Reality - (T)
• 4.2 The Properties of Reality - (T)
• 4.3 The Aspects of Reality - (T)
• 4.4 The Dimensionalities / Dimensions of Reality - (T)
  • 4.4.1 Causality / Cause - (T)
  • 4.4.2 Variationality / Variation - (T)
    • 4.4.2.1 Spatiality / Space - (T)
    • 4.4.2.2 Temporality / Time - (T)
  • 4.4.3 The causal evolution of Reality - (T)
    • 4.4.3.1 The main causal chain of Reality - (T)
  • 4.4.4 The variational (spatial and temporal) evolution of Reality - (T)
• 4.5 The Levels of Reality - (T)
• 4.6 The Scales of Reality - (T)
• 4.7 The Principle of Reality - (T) - (S)
• 4.8 The Principles of Reality - (T) - (S)
• 4.9 Simplicity, elegance and naturalness - (T) - (S)

5. What exists? What happens? How happens?

• 5. What exists? What happens? How happens? - (T)
• 5.1 Ontology, Phenomenology and Dynamics - (T)
  • 5.1.1 Ontology: Entities - (T)
  • 5.1.2 Phenomenology: Events and Relations - (T)
  • 5.1.3 Dynamics: Processes - (T)
• 5.2 Entities - (T)
  • 5.2.1 Sources - (T)
  • 5.2.2 Agents / Forces - (T)
  • 5.2.3 Acted / Fields - (T)
  • 5.2.4 Sources and Agency - (T)
• 5.3 Events - (T)
  • 5.3.1 Elementary Events - (T)
  • 5.3.2 Complex Events - (T)
  • 5.3.3 From Events to Action: the dynamics of Creation - (T)
• 5.4 Relations - (T)
  • 5.4.1 Elementary Relations - (T)
  • 5.4.2 Complex Relations - (T)
  • 5.4.3 From Relation to Information: the dynamics of Evolution - (T)
  • 5.4.4 Properties and Phenomena - (T)
• 5.5 Processes - (T)
  • 5.5.1 Anabolic / constructive-organizing processes - (T)
  • 5.5.2 Catabolic / destructive-transforming processes - (T)
  • 5.5.3 Mixed / real processes - (T)
  • 5.5.4 The Process of Formation of Reality - (T)
  • 5.5.5 The formative sub-processes: Creation "and" Evolution - (T)
  • 5.5.6 Derived processes - (T)
  • 5.5.7 The Dynamics of Reality - (T)

6. The Process of Formation of Physical Reality

• 6. The Process of Formation of Physical Reality - (T)
• 6.1 Creation and Evolution in the physical world - (T)
  • 6.1.1 Creation (the Dynamics of Physical Action) - (T)
  • 6.1.2 Evolution (the Dynamics of Physical Information) - (T)
• 6.2 Meaning, Structure, Operators and Products of the Process of Formation - (T)
  • 6.2.1 The Causal Formation of Reality: agents of Formation towards complexity - (T)
  • 6.2.2 The Variational Formation of Reality: products of Formation in terms of inhomogeneity - (T)
• 6.3 The Dynamics of Physical Reality - (T)

7. The Source of Reality or Primary Source: the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field

• 7. The Source of Reality or Primary Source: the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field - (T)
• 7.1 The Fundamental Force: the fundamental causal agent - (T)
• 7.2 The Elementary Field: the unitary variational acted - (T)
• 7.3 The Dynamics of the Source - (T)
• 7.4 Agency - (T)
  • 7.4.1 Agency and Causality - (T)
  • 7.4.2 Agency and Variationality - (T)
• 7.5 Derived Sources - (T)
  • 7.5.1 Derived Agents / Forces - (T)
    • 7.5.1.1 Operational Agents (Operators of Reality) - (T)
    • 7.5.1.2 Quantum Agents - (T)
    • 7.5.1.3 Deterministic Agents - (T)
    • 7.5.1.4 Finalistic Agents - (T)
  • 7.5.2 Derived Acted / Fields - (T)

8. Action: the Creation of Existence

• 8. Action: the Creation of Existence - (T)
• 8.1 Action: the product of the Dynamics of the Source - (T)
• 8.2 The Dynamics of Action and its Modes / Components - (T)
  • 8.2.1 Variation - (T)
  • 8.2.2 Propagation - (T)
  • 8.2.3 Conservation - (T)
• 8.3 The Cycle of Action: effects that become causes - (T)
• 8.4 Physical Action - (T)
• 8.5 The Dynamics of Physical Action - (T)
  • 8.5.1 Elementary Action - (T) - (S)
  • 8.5.2 The Dynamics of Elementary Action and its Modes / Components - (T)
    • 8.5.2.1 Perturbation - Gradient - (T)
    • 8.5.2.2 Translation - Divergence - (T)
    • 8.5.2.3 Rotation - Curl - (T)
  • 8.5.3 The Fundamental Principles of the Dynamics of Elementary Action - (T)
    • 8.5.3.1 The Principle of Uncertainty - (T)
    • 8.5.3.2 The Principle of Action and Reaction - (T)
    • 8.5.3.3 The Principle of Minimum Action - (T)
    • 8.5.3.4 Other Principles of Evolutionary Dynamics - (T)
    • 8.5.3.5 The Principle of General Equivalence - (T)
    • 8.5.3.6 Other Physical Principles - (T)
  • 8.5.4 Derived Action - (T)
  • 8.5.5 Fundamental Physical Quantities - (T)
  • 8.5.6 Fundamental Constants of Nature - (T)

9. Information: the Evolution of Essence / Form

• 9. Information: the Evolution of Essence / Form - (T)
• 9.1 Information: the product of the Dynamics of Action - (T)
• 9.2 Relation / Correlation and Information / Energy - (T)
• 9.3 The Dynamics of Information: Evolution toward Complexity - (T)
  • 9.3.1 Chaos / order (im)balance: entropy and negentropy / enthalpy - (T)
  • 9.3.2 Complexity - (T)
  • 9.3.3 The role of emergence in the construction of Reality - (T)
  • 9.3.4 The Cycle of Information - (T)
    • 9.3.4.1 Organization - (T)
    • 9.3.4.2 Transformation - (T)
    • 9.3.4.3 Selection - (T)
• 9.4 Physical Information - (T)
• 9.5 The Dynamics of Physical Information - (T)
• 9.6 States: snapshots of the world in motion - (T)
  • 9.6.1 The states of the Elementary Field - (T)
  • 9.6.2 States of Derived Physical Fields - (T)
• 9.7 Elementary Information: Energy - (T)
  • 9.7.1 Elementary Energy: energy in the unstructured Field - (T)
  • 9.7.2 Complex Energy: energy in the structured Field - (T)
    • 9.7.2.1 Forms of Energy - (T)
    • 9.7.2.2 Energy of the Field: Potential Energy - (T)
    • 9.7.2.3 Energy of the Structures and Forms in the Field: Effective / Kinetic Energy - (T)
• 9.8 Complex Information - (T)
  • 9.8.1 Quantum Information - (T)
  • 9.8.2 Classical Information - (T)

10. The Structures of Information

• 10. The Structures of Information - (T)
• 10.1 An "extreme" example about the Structures of Information - (T)
• 10.2 Classification of Physical Structures of Information: dark and visible, energy and matter structures - (T)
  • 10.2.1 Waves - (T)
  • 10.2.2 Vortices - (T)
  • 10.2.3 Interactions - (T)
  • 10.2.4 Mixed structures – Complex vortices/particles and interactions - (T)
• 10.3 The Process of Formation of the Dark and Visible Structures of Information - (T)
• 10.4 Properties of the Structures of Information - (T)
  • 10.4.1 Dualities in the world of the Structures of Information - (T)
    • 10.4.1.1 Continuity (or) and Discreetness / Granularity / Quantization - (T)
    • 10.4.1.2 Waves (or) and Particles / Vortices - (T)
    • 10.4.1.3 Quantum fields (or) and Particles - (T)
  • 10.4.2 Locality, separability, individuation and internal distribution - (T)
    • 10.4.2.1 Locality - (T)
    • 10.4.2.2 Separability - (T)
    • 10.4.2.3 Individuation - (T)
    • 10.4.2.4 Internal distribution - (T)
• 10.5 Dynamics of the Structures of Information - (T)
  • 10.5.1 Classical dynamics - (T)
  • 10.5.2 Quantum dynamics - (T)
    • 10.5.2.1 Indetermination - (T)
    • 10.5.2.2 Entanglement and non-locality - (T)
    • 10.5.2.3 Superposition - (T)
    • 10.5.2.4 Measurement and wave function collapse - (T)
  • 10.5.3 Evolutionary dynamics - (T)
    • 10.5.3.1 Locality / non-locality - (T)
    • 10.5.3.2 Entanglement - (T)
    • 10.5.3.3 Reasons for the locality / non-locality dispute - (T)
    • 10.5.3.2 Entanglement - (T)
    • 10.5.3.4 A step forward into the magical world of quantum - (T)
• 10.6 Derived structured physical forces and fields - (T)
  • 10.6.1 Space-time and metric phenomena - (T)
  • 10.6.2 Mass and gravitational phenomena - (T)
  • 10.6.3 Motion and kinetic phenomena - (T)
  • 10.6.4 Charge and electric phenomena - (T)
  • 10.6.5 Spin and magnetic phenomena - (T)
  • 10.6.6 Complex forces / fields and their phenomena - (T)
  • 10.6.7 Unification of the physical derived structured forces and fields - (T)
• 10.7 Energy and matter in the structured Field - (T)
  • 10.7.1 Energy in the structured Field - (T)
    • 10.7.1.1 Dark energy - (T)
    • 10.7.1.2 Ordinary energy - (T)
      • 10.7.1.2.1 Radiant energy: Gravitational and Electromagnetic Waves - (T)
  • 10.7.2 Matter - (T)
    • 10.7.2.1 Dark (invisible) matter - (T)
      • 10.7.2.1.1 Halos / Vortices - (T)
    • 10.7.2.2 Ordinary (visible) matter - (T)
      • 10.7.2.2.1 Particles / Vortices - (T)
      • 10.7.2.2.2 Matter and Antimatter - (T)
  • 10.7.3 Interactions between matter and radiation - (T)
• 10.8 Observing Structures from absolute or relative perspectives - (T)
  • 10.8.1 A model of free electrons - (T)
  • 10.8.2 A model of atomic electron clouds - (T)
  • 10.8.3 A model of photons / light e.m. waves - (T)
• 10.9 Some common physical phenomena in the structured Field - (T)
  • 10.9.1 Cosmic intergalactic void - (T)
  • 10.9.2 Massive particle moving in space-time - (T)
  • 10.9.3 Charged particle in an electric field - (T)
  • 10.9.4 Charged particle in a magnetic field - (T)
  • 10.9.5 Massive particle emitting an electromagnetic wave propagating in space-time - (T)
  • 10.9.6 Massive particle interacting with a massive dark matter structure - (T)
  • 10.9.7 Double slit interference - (T)

11. The Forms and the Universe

• 11. The Forms and the Universe - (T)
• 11.1 Forms - (T)
  • 11.1.1 Material forms - (T)
  • 11.1.2 Immaterial forms - (T)
  • 11.1.3 Physical aspects of Cognitive (living and automata) Forms - (T)
  • 11.1.4 Dynamics of the Forms - (T)
  • 11.1.5 States of Matter - (T)
• 11.2 Systems - (T)
  • 11.2.1 Physical Systems - (T)
    • 11.2.1.1 Atoms - (T)
    • 11.2.1.2 Molecules - (T)
    • 11.2.1.3 Substances - (T)
    • 11.2.1.4 Objects and Bodies - (T)
    • 11.2.1.5 Structures - (T)
  • 11.2.2 Dynamics of Physical Systems - (T)
  • 11.2.3 Physical aspects of the dynamics of Cognitive Systems and Ecosystems - (T)
• 11.3 Universe - (T)
  • 11.3.1 The Universe of the Forms: the cosmological and the biological visions - (T)
  • 11.3.2 Dynamics of the Cosmos and the Universe - (T)
    • 11.3.2.1 The Evolutionary Cosmological Model - (T)
    • 11.3.2.2 The origin and the evolution of the Universe - (T)
    • 11.3.2.3 Substances, objects, bodies and structures in the Cosmos - (T)
      • 11.3.2.3.1 Cosmic substances - (T)
      • 11.3.2.3.2 Cosmic objects and bodies - (T)
      • 11.3.2.3.3 Cosmic structures - (T)
  • 11.3.3 Biological evolutionary dynamics and the Dynamics of Living Beings - (T)
  • 11.3.4 A brief history of the Universe - (T)

12. Conclusions: a look into the future

• 12. Conclusions: a look into the future - (T)
• 12.1 About this work - (T)
• 12.2 A lot of work to do - (T)
• 12.3 Fundamental questions: Who are we? What are we? - (T)
• 12.4 Knowledge and Consciousness - (T)
• 12.5 And now? - (T)