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• Terminological conventions - (T)

2.1 The Research Project

• The Research Project - (T)
• The main questions about Physical Reality - (T)
• Very important hypotheses about Reality - (T)
  • Reality and the Universe “does not exist” in a conventional sense, the whole Reality “happens”
  • Creation (or) and Evolution
  • The whole Reality is incessantly empowered by a Source of Events/Action (a Force / Field couple)
  • Everything is relative but the Source (Fundamental Force and Elementary Field)
  • Quantum time symmetry
  • Different kind of forces/fields: a matter of complexity
  • Mass, motion, charge and spin: the key is (cor)relation, organization, information
  • Energy is an elementary form of Information (or Information is a complex form of energy)
  • The “inconstancy” of natural constants and an amazing equivalence
  • Matter is not fundamental, or, better, is not so fundamental...
  • Radiation and particles are not the main part of what exists (or rather, “happens”) in Nature
  • The shape of particles and atoms is different from what we think and ever changing
  • Where is the electron? No point particles. No “solid”, unchangeable particles
  • When mass rises, volume (space extension) lowers
  • Dark matter is not made of particles
  • Dark energy as anti-mass (or positive density mass)
  • Cosmic expansion as an effect of the rising complexity of Reality
  • Large scale homogeneity of the cosmos
  • No Big Bang! No inflation! We don’t really need things like these…
  • No limits at all
  • The Universe is intrinsically flat
  • The Universe is older than we think
  • Only one universe is needed, not many or an infinite number
• The global vision - (T)
• How our world works… a new System of Knowledge - (T)
• Reality and Knowledge - (T)
• A new framework: Evolutionary Physics as part of Evolutionary Knowledge - (T)
• The principle of Reality - (T)
• Simplicity, elegance and naturalness - (T)

2.2 Reality - Existence - Essence (Form) – The Process of Formation (Creation and Evolution)

• Reality - Existence - Essence (Form) – The Process of Formation (Creation and Evolution) - (T)
• Reality is a Process - (T)
• A landscape a bit confused - (T)
• Looking at the world - The mark of the Source: the Force in Action - (T)
• Why there is something rather than nothing - (T)
• What exists? - (T)
• What exists is what happens = What happens is what exists. Entities = Events - (T)
• What we see in the world, What is really fundamental? - (T)
• Creation “and” Evolution: two complementary aspects of Formation - (T)
• Action and Information: the core of Reality - (T)
• Existence and Essence - (T)
• Nothing is absolute, everything is relative and evolves - (T)
• Why the term “formation” is so central in this system of knowledge - (T)
• The world in the terms of complex interactions of elementary (sub) processes: the construction of Reality - (T)
• Reverse engineering of Reality: a case study - (T)

2.3 Levels - Aspects - Dimensions - Scales

• Levels - Aspects - Dimensions - Scales - (T)
• Reality is like an onion? The multi-level structure of Reality - (T)
• Activity - Passivity - Equilibrium - (T)
• Cause, space and time: the dimensions of Reality - (T)
• The evolution of the dimensions of Reality - (T)
• The evolution of space-time - (T)
• From the fundamental dimensions of Reality to the nature of the physical quantities - (T)
• A matter of scale - (T)
• Could, Should, Would: the evolution of causality or the causal evolution of Reality - (T)
• No limits in cause, space and time - (T)
• The main causal chain of Reality - (T)

2.4 The elementary levels of Reality

• The elementary levels of Reality - T(T)
• From nothingness to emptiness - from vacuum to substance: the dance of opposites - (T)
• Variation, propagation, conservation: the basic functional operators of Reality - (T)
• Evolutionary Dynamics: why, what and how in the real factory of Reality - (T)
• Gradient, divergence, rotation: from probability distributions to differential operators - (T)
• The Elementary Action and the fundamental principles of the Elementary Dynamics - (T)
• Space time curvature in the terms of Elementary Action: Perturbation - (T)
• Propagation in space-time in the terms of Elementary Action: Translation - (T)
• Conservation in space-time in the terms of Elementary Action: Rotation - (T)
• Propagation as conservation in space and Conservation as propagation in time - (T)
• The states of the Elementary Field: the correlation among Elementary Events - (T)
• Empty space? Quantum fluctuations? Particles and waves in space? - (T)
• The fundamental principles of the Elementary Dynamics (Principles of Action) - (T)
• From fundamental principles to the laws of nature - (T)

2.5 Entities: Source (Force - Field)

• Entities: Source (Force - Field) - (T)
• Sources, forces and fields - (T)
• The secret nature of the Source: Quantum vs God - (T)
• Agency, agent, acted, action - (T)
• No supernatural agency, agents, acted and actions - No supernatural agency, agents, acted and actions
• How many wrong ideas about sources, forces and fields - (T)
• Forces and fields as real entities - (T)
• One Source, many sources - (T)
• One Force, many forces - (T)
• One Field, many fields - (T)
• Absolute and relative - Transcendence and immanence - Unity and multiplicity - (T)
• Derivation and emergence - (T)

2.6 Events: Action - Creation --> Existence

• Events: Action - Creation/Existence - (T)
• Pressure to existence, resistance to variation: the Physics of Creation - (T)
• Action: the expression of the incessant tension to existence - (T)
• Gradients: the fundaments of existence - (T)
• Generation, propagation and conservation of gradients - (T)
• Stress and constraint: from independence to correlation - (T)
• De-formation of fields: energy / information - (T)
• No aether at all: the elementary "substance" - (T)
• What's behind the action at a distance? - (T)

2.7 Relations: Information/Energy - Evolution --> Essence (Form)

• Relations: Information/Energy - Complexity - Evolution/Essence (Form) - (T)
• What evolves? - (T)
• Relation and Information: the “objects” of evolution - (T)
• Information “and/or” Energy - (T)
• Evolution: the Metabolic Cycle of Information - (T)
• Information and complexity - (T)
• Chaos, Organization, Order: entropy and …enthalpy - (T)
• From chaos to order: state / phase transitions - (T)
• Different kinds of order - (T)
• The evolution of evolution - (T)
• The inconstancy of the natural constants - (T)

2.8 Processes: Entities that produce Events and Relations that organize them

• Processes: Entities that produce Events and Relations that organize them - (T)
• A perfect evolving system: Entities, Events, Relations, Processes - (T)
• Why complexity arises? - (T)
• Continuity and granularity: different nested levels of Reality need different physical models/theories - (T)
• The unhappy wedding between General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics - (T)
• What is the place of Special and General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Standard Model in this model - (T)
• A geometry… little geometric: from metrics to shape - (T)

2.9 The world of continuity and the fundamental physical quantities: Mass - Motion - Charge - Spin

• The world of continuity and the fundamental physical quantities: Mass - Motion - Charge - Spin - (T)
• From the Elementary Events (Elementary Action) to the fundamental physical quantities - (T)
• Mass (Perturbation – Gradient – Difference) - (T)
• Motion (Translation – Divergence – Flux) - (T)
• Charge (Rotation: chirality – Curl / Rot – Vorticity / Circulation) - (T)
• Spin (Rotation: axis orientation – Div Curl / RotAx - Spin) - (T)
• Unbelievable equivalencies - (T)
• Gravity and Dark Energy: two complementary forces - two sides of the same coin - (T)
• A general concept of Inertia - (T)
• The Higgs mechanism in the term of Perturbation - (T)

2.10 The world of granularity: structures and the quantum

• The world of granularity: structures and the quantum - (T)
• Structures in the quantum world? - (T)
• Quantum structures and quantum fields? - (T)
• Potential energy of a quantum field - (T)
• Wave, Vortices, Interactions: Radiation and Matter - (T)
• Gravitational and electromagnetic fields as a partial view of the dynamics of the Elementary Field - (T)
• The duality problem: wave vs Particle models of e.m. radiation and particles - (T)
• The “weird” misunderstanding about waves: one cycle, more cycles - (T)
• Double slits and other key experiments - (T)
• Entanglement and the spooky action at distance: conservation of order/organization - (T)
• Waves and vortices (simple particles) moving in the Field - (T)
• No point particles, no singularities - (T)
• Where is the electron? - (T)
• The shape of particles and atoms is different from what we think and ever changing - (T)
• The emergence of granularity - (T)
• Jelly balls in jelly flippers: the weirdness of quantum world - (T)
• Quantum structures in a continuous world: continuity and quantization - (T)
• Quantum fields in the terms of the structure and dynamics of the Elementary Field - (T)
• Fields always exists even when they do not appear: events and phenomena as manifestations of fields - (T)
• Energy, coherence, correlation - (T)

2.11 Waves "AND" particles - Radiation and matter

• Waves and particles - Radiation and matter - (T)
• The shape of ordinary matter particles - (T)
• The shape of atoms and molecules - (T)
• The Standard model of particles is correct, but… - (T)
• The non-particle nature of the most part of the world - (T)
• Are we made of baryonic matter? - (T)
• Dark and ordinary energy: a different kind of physical quantities - (T)
• Dark and ordinary matter: not just a matter of density - (T)
• The distribution of dark matter in space - (T)
• The evolution of dark matter in time - (T)
• The interaction between dark and ordinary/visible matter - (T)
• Why cannot we find the dark side of the Universe? - (T)
• Dark Matter vs Dark Energy - (T)
• Dark matter and dark energy: the structure of the invisible Universe - (T)
• The matter / antimatter unbalance: a question of chirality - (T)

2.12 The Universe of the Forms

• The Universe of the Forms - (T)
• The Forms of the Universe. The Universe of the Forms - (T)
• Stars and galaxies: the cosmic bricks - (T)
• What made galaxies and how are galaxies made? - (T)
• Black Holes as super particles - (T)
• Clusters, super-clusters, cosmic fluxes, great attractors, walls and voids: the cosmic buildings and roads - (T)

2.13 The cosmic evolution

• The cosmic evolution - (T)
• Some astrophysical and cosmological phenomena - (T)
• The dynamics of the cosmic feedback - (T)
• What doesn’t work in the Standard Model of Cosmology - (T)
• Who needs a Big Bang? - (T)
• Who needs a Cosmic Inflation? - (T)
• No Big Bang and Inflation: an incessant creation and evolution - (T)
• The beginning of the Universe - (T)
• The formation and the evolution of the Universe - (T)

2.14 The biological evolution

• The biological evolution - (T)
• From inorganic to organic: a matter of complexity - (T)

2.15 The cognitive evolution: the "meta" side of Reality

• The cognitive evolution: the "meta" side of Reality - (T)
• As complexity arises: from organic matter to the mind - (T)
• Material and immaterial: what’s the difference? The “meta” side of Reality - (T)
• The emergence of sense and finality - (T)

Links to the tables of contents of TFNR Paper

• Go to the contents list of the paper "The Fundamental Nature of Reality"

• Go to Chapter 2 "A first look"