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I think we must find the courage, even if only for a few moments, or maybe as a joke, to abandon the certainties on which we base our vision of physical reality. '''I believe in creativity and imagination''' to create hypotheses to be submitted to the inflexible scientific method. But limiting our creativity in the narrow cages of existing knowledge, especially when it is taken as a dogma, for me it is really a negative way of investigating Nature.  

So, '''let me list here some "heretical" hypotheses''' that will surely horrify many readers. Grant me the opportunity to open doors to what many of you will consider absurd, inconceivable, inadmissible. Allow me to lead you into a short dance in a world where most of your certainties, on which modern science is based, will disappear, to enter into unknown territories. I will not offer you magic spells soaked with superstition, new age fascinations, psychedelic deliria. I will ask you only to try to observe the facts with new eyes. We see what we are prepared to see. Knowledge represents the filter through which we observe the world and build new knowledge. To see new things or the same things in a new way we have to move away a little from the beaten tracks, from the clichés, from our safe, comfortable and shared conceptions of reality.

Reality does not exist in a classical or ordinary sense. '''Reality happens'''. All that exists appear as existing because at the elementary level of Reality, in the true factory of causality and space-time, the '''Source incessantly create and recreate the elementary events''', the basic “substance”, the Elementary Action, from whose organization everything emerges and evolves at the various levels of Reality.

The Universe, and everything in it, is made of organized '''events'''. In this sense, we can say that also the Universe happens, not that it exists in a conventional sense. We can only say that “'''it exists because it happens'''”. If the incessant flow of events, which sustain Reality, were stopped, Reality and its present section, the Universe, would instantly disappear (and with it also space and time), even if no one (no conscious beings) would notice it.

Nothing can be defined as entity, only the Source, in its two complementary aspects, the Force and the Field. The Source is the only “entity” in the true sense. Only the fundamental/elementary couple Force/Field can be considered as an entity. Everything else derive its existence from the fundamental/elementary Source. It is the incessant source, the origin of Existence, because it “causes” the happening, the emergence of the Elementary Events that represent the most fundamental form of Existence. Reality exists because happens, because the Source incessantly produce its happening.

The events we are perceiving, observing, measuring, the events that compose of natural phenomena, the everyday facts that we are incessantly experiencing in our lives, always are to be considered and can be described as macro-events. Even the simplest events, like the emission of a photon by an excited electron in an atomic nucleus, is a complex structure of organized events. This “simple” interaction between two of the more elementary particles/waves, that we can observe in nature, in facts, involves an enormous number of Elementary Events. Each related to the others, or better, correlated in the complex forms that we call particles, both the massive ones like vortex/particles as electrons and the non-massive ones like wave/particles as photons. We also have to take in consideration all the “non-stable, short life, variable extension and shape” structures that characterize the normal dynamics of the Field, especially in the surrounding of the previously mentions Structures engaged in a short-range interaction (which in QM we call virtual particles and, more in general, quantum fluctuations of the void).  

==Creation (or) and Evolution==

In my opinion, the great debate between creation and evolution, although it is of great importance from the philosophical and religious point of view, and in particular for the understanding of the evolution of human thought, in the perspective of the knowledge of physical reality seems a little irrelevant.  

Within this evolutionary system of knowledge, Creation and Evolution are the two sub-processes which '''together incessantly''' realize the universal “Process of Formation of Reality”. Creation of the existence / existing, Evolution of the essence / form of Reality. These two sub-complementary sub processes, together, represent the whole formative manifestation of the Source of Reality (the complementary interacting couple: Force as source of causality and Field as source of spatiality and temporality).

== The whole Reality is incessantly empowered by a Source of Events/Action (a Force / Field couple)==

This very important statement word by word, whose true meaning is: No Source, no Events, no Reality.  

'''The whole Reality''': every that existed, exists and will exist. Past (the history), present (the actual) and future (the possibile). The Universe in evolution.

'''Incessantly''': in every instant in a continuous flowing of time, created by a continuous infinite process of events.

'''To empower''': to give power, to propel, to create a potential, the potential, the possibility, to give the power of making something happen, become “real” from a potential state, to produce a change in the state of a field, to de-form a field, to produce events, action… Empowerment is the key of creation and emergence.

'''Source of Events''': the former agent, the causal origin of those events (deformations of the Field produced by the incessant (inter)action of the Force. The Force and Field being the aspect, active and passive, of the Source itself, the fundamental manifestations of the Source interacting with itself.  What is a source? It is '''a force in action on a field'''.

== Everything is relative but the Source (Fundamental Force and Elementary Field) ==

'''Nothing absolute in the Reality, but the Source'''. Only the Force and the Field, the two aspects of the creative power of the Source can be considered. Everything that exists emerges from the inner interaction of the Force and the Field, in a creative and evolutive process the I call the Process of Formation of Reality. It is a process of events that gives form to Reality and the Universe in evolution.

Even the '''force and causality''', even the '''space and time''', emerge from the Source and are not absolute entities. They too are made of events, made by that inner interaction that produces the most elementary form of existence, the Elementary Events, the Elementary Action. Both space and time (local) extensions (distances in space and intervals in time) depend on the (local) average intensities of the distributions of the Elementary Events, the tiny fluctuation of the Elementary Field at the Planck scale.

This is also the reason why space and time are linked as stated in General Relativity. Because they are different expressions of the same phenomena, because, as seen above, they both depend on the same fundamental quantity, on the dynamical state of the Elementary Field itself.

And more, in an evolutive run toward complexity, even '''mass, motion, charge and spin''', the fundamental physical quantities that characterize radiation and matter, and so everything that exists in the physical Universe, are relative. They can be described only in relation with the space-time distributions of that Elementary Events that constitute the Elementary Action in its three components: Perturbation, Translation, Rotation (in the two forms of Chirality and Axis orientation).

== Quantum time symmetry ==

According to quantum time symmetry, events can be reversed in time dimension. This is the theoretical symmetry of physical laws under the transformation of time reversal, that is equivalent to the conservation of entropy (impossible as per the second law of thermodynamics except for special equilibrium states).

I personally think that '''quantum time symmetry is highly over estimated'''. That is more theoretical than practical. It can be fully applied to very elementary, single or simple, quantum phenomena. Complex events or whole processes can’t be reversed (the combined probability of the reversal of all the individual elementary events that compose the whole process in the right order is so small that we can easily assume to be null). Events, or better simple events, can ideally be reversed. What can’t be reversed are relations between events. The organization of events in more complex macro events represent the true complexity of Reality, that normally can’t be reversed. This leads to the emergence of '''the arrow of time, the irreversibility of complex phenomena'''.

It is a crucial point. It is very important to understand the phenomena that in quantum world are called “wave-function collapse”, due to observation, and “quantum decoherence”, as an explanation for the observation of the wave-function collapse, when the quantum system loses information into the environment. And more, also '''measurement''' (a particular form of observation, that always creates relations or a complex set of relations between the observer and the observed), the more complex it is, the more affects the observed system, producing more and more irreversible effects both in the observed and the observer (respectively the object of the measure and the experimental equipment).

== Different kind of forces/fields: a matter of complexity ==

In investigating the nature of the forces and the fields we commonly deal with in physics, in the quest for a real unification of these entities, to me is very important to distinguish between Fundamental Force / Elementary Fields on one hand and the derived forces/fields on the other.

I think this is not the only very useful distinction. In the land of the derived entities, the derived forces and fields, the products of whose interaction we observe in Nature as different phenomena, we have to distinguish between forces/fields that emerge and operate in the continuum, at a very elementary level of Reality, and forces/fields that emerge and operate in the world of granularity, at a more complex level of organization.

As direct manifestation of the fundamental entities, at an elementary level of Reality, where the fundamental continuity is still dominant and granularity, although starting to occur in a larval and highly unstable form, is not yet become the protagonist of the scene, we can identify the two main derived forces/fields: the gravitational and the electromagnetic.

It is there that the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field manifest themselves in the emergence of new and more complex derived forces/fields, where continuity slides in the background and granularity takes the scene. It is there that gravitational and the electromagnetic forces/fields, while remaining fundamentally continuous entities, they take on new forms and properties, contributing to the emergence of the weak and strong nuclear forces / fields.

== Mass, motion, charge and spin: the key is (cor)relation, organization, information ==

In this model of description of the physical world, “mass, motion, charge and spin”, the fundamental physical quantities that lay at the base of all the physics of matter and radiation, are considered not really fundamental. They are seen as emergent properties/quantities, phenomena, processes of events, something that happens, like everything else in the Universe, like the Structures of Information (particles, waves, atoms, molecules, etc.) that we really study, classify and measure through that quantities.  

Or better, they are considered as organizations of relations among events, patterns of processes of events. Information, in short. Mass, motion, charge and spin are Information, at a low-medium level of Reality, where Reality evolves from the world of the Elementary Action, in its peculiar basic modes of manifestation (Perturbation, Translation and Rotation), to the world of the Structures of Information.

It is the world of Information, the physical information that we call “energy” in traditional science language. If we slice Action in time dimension, we can see Information. Information, as the word say, is the form of the Action, “In-Form-Action”. And to identify/measure an evolving form, we have to stop the flowing of the action, of the events that incessantly re-create and modify that form. It’s like taking a snapshot. We cannot get the form as reality evolves, changes. We can see, measure, an occurring action, a process of events only, so to say, “stopping” time and observing/measuring the deformation of a (derived) field produced by the (derived) action of the corresponding (derived) force.

== Energy is an elementary form of Information (or Information is a complex form of energy)==

What is energy? A central question in physics. Normally we think to Information as something complex, and to energy as something more elementary. But I think they are the same. Or better, energy is an elementary form of Information. So, we can convert the basic question “what is energy?”, into a more general question: “what is Information?”.

The central part of Evolutionary Physics model is represented by the Process of Formation of Reality: how the Source creates Elementary Events/Action and how this Action organize, takes form in Information (In-Form-Action), whose evolution produce all the Structures and the Forms that compose the Universe in evolution.

So, in this model of description of Reality Information is action that has taken a form through relation. At the most elementary levels of Reality, Information is represented by the set/net of Relations that organize the Elementary Events/Action. Only inhomogeneous sets/nets of events manifest, represent, is, Information. Homogeneity represents the minimum level/amount of Information (absolute homogeneity is equal to zero Information).

The more elementary form of inhomogeneity is an Elementary Event, a local basic deformation of the Elementary Field (a local fluctuation of the Field at the Planck scale). But looking at the Field, animated by those fluctuations, at a more distance, a volume with an extension that can include a statistically significant number of point-events, we will see again a little less elementary form of homogeneity, but always homogeneity. It is the “without form”, Action without form. Again, considering not a single point, but a 3D interval, a volume, we will find no Information, cause all the stochastic distributions of the fluctuations of each point-event in that volume are equal.

At this point, a new form of inhomogeneity can emerge. It is what we will consider the most elementary form of Information: a '''gradient''' in the stochastic distributions of the Elementary Events. We call this:  Perturbation, the most elementary form of Action, the component of Action related to the intensity of the elementary fluctuations. Perturbation, with Translation and Rotation are the three basic forms of the Elementary Action, the basic components of Action. They are the building block of Reality. Relations among these forms of Action, the basic ways in which Events can organize, represent the fundamental Information, the basic forms of Energy. Because they are the basic ways in which the Force manifests itself, producing the derived forces that we see at work in the Nature, we can represent them in terms of the vector algebra: gradient, divergence, rotation/curl.

Every other more complex form of Energy/Information emerge from the evolution (organization, transformation, selection) of more and more complex relations among these three elementary forms of Action, this Elementary Information.

==The “inconstancy” of natural constants and an amazing equivalence==

The speed of light in the vacuum, the quantum of action, etc. are no longer to be considered as constant. Although they always can be considered basic reference quantities, their values, their intensities are strongly dependent on the (universal and local) state of the “void” and on our comprehension of its true nature and dynamics.  

'''Void is not “empty”''', is not like nothingness. Void, as QM suggests, is full of incessant fluctuations. It is animated by “something”, in the way stated by the uncertainty principle. Space-time, and, more in deep, the Elementary Field is full of what we call Elementary Action, the Elementary Events, the tiny fluctuations at the Planck scale, the most elementary form of existence.

Natural constants are dependent on the (universal and local) distributions (in form and intensity) of those fluctuations. In the case of “c”, the speed of light, its intensity is determined by the distributions of the intensities of those fluctuations. It is a measure of the stress of space-time, its curvature. Light does not speed off due to space-time curvature produced by the presence of a massive object. The curvature “is” the mass. Mass, the curvature of space-time and the (local) speed at which light travels are all effects of a particular form of the organization of the distributions of the elementary fluctuations in/of the Field.

These physical quantities are the same thing, the expression of the nature and dynamics of something more fundamental. This is an '''amazing equivalence''': mass density, speed of light (velocity of propagation of information), curvature of space-time, temperature of the Field = distribution of the intensities of the elementary fluctuations in the Field (we call this “Perturbation”, a fundamental form of Elementary Action, the fundament of metrics, mass and gravitation).

So, the relevant question is: why these distributions are not homogeneous in space and time dimensions? This question is very important because all that exists emerges and evolves from the organization of these fluctuations. In short, it is true that everything is made of void, but the central matter is: “why the void is not really void and how it behaves in the particular ways that allows/forces Reality to organize and evolve the way we see?”

==Matter is not fundamental, or, better, is not so fundamental...==

It is natural that we are searching the basic constituents of matter, that hope to find a fundamental particle, the “first” particle, that we try to find the origin of all that we can observe in Nature, digging in the deep of matter. It is natural because we are made of matter, '''we are matter'''. Even the cognitive aspect of living beings and humanity, in an evolutionary perspective, seem to raise from the emerging complexity produced by the evolution of matter. And even religions focus on the act of '''creating matter''' by god (s).

But I think there must something else. Or better, maybe matter is a particular form, state, of something else, something more fundamental, hiding in the deep processes in the true factory of Reality. Philosophy, science, physics, in their histories, have given us various representations of matter and what we think matter is. The evolution of those representations toward covariant fields, and then, quantum fields, the current attempts to go even beyond, to get a quantum theory of gravity (through the synthesis of quantum covariant fields) and to grasp the grand unification, in my opinion is always too much focused-on matter as we know it.

I think that we must do one more step beyond, to forget matter and atomism for a while, and to focus on something that in the evolutionary perspective proposed by this research project, by this new coming system of knowledge, appear more fundamental: '''Action (events) and Information (relations among events)'''. Action is the emerging product of Creation, while Information is the emerging product of Evolution. '''Everything (even matter!) is made of that'''.

== Radiation and particles are not the main part of what exists (or rather, “happens”) in Nature ==

Radiation and particles, their interactions and their dynamics are very important parts of Reality (we and almost all that we can observe and measure in the Universe are made of these two classes of structures). But we need to stop thinking that everything that exist is made of these stuffs. To understand the dark side of Nature and the most elementary levels of Reality, in the study of natural phenomena '''we have to go far beyond the atomistic vision'''.

It is like to watch the surface of a volcanic lake. We observe vapor, bubbles, whirls, the mineral composts floating in and above water, potent geysers rising high. But it seems like we are not able to look under the surface, to look at the water, that transfers the heat and the motion from the deep of the earth to the surface and to the structures that catch our attention.

It is like, unable to see under the surface, we concentrate on all the phenomena above the surface, trying to explain them only in terms of what we can directly see, even if we do not completely understand them. I think we are forgetting the main part of what is happening!  Our cognitive system is specialized to recognize structures, patterns and changes in them. So, it is natural that we focus on particles and waves, and their interactions, ignoring what hosts them, what supports them.

Watching at the sky, we must not just look at the clouds moving around. We have to look at the (apparently) calm blue sky which represents the background of all that happens in it and which captures our curious attention. Observing and measuring the clouds, without studying the blue sky that, like the emptiness, apparently lies between them, does not allow us to fully understand what clouds are, why they exist and how they behave and interact producing all the meteorological phenomena that influence our lives.

I wrote “'''apparently''' lies between them”, apparently because the background, the sky in our metaphor, and the structures, the clouds, are not different kind of things. They are always atoms, molecules, only differently organized, combined, structured. The same with space-time and the structures that we call waves and particles. They are really not “in” the space-time field, they are the space-time field, or better, the Elementary Field differently organized. Different “Information”, In-Form-Action, what gives a different form to the Elementary Action.  

== The shape of particles and atoms is different from what we think and ever changing ==

We often think to particles as solid object, in the sense that we give to macro objects (iron balls, for instance), or that they are abstract entities, that can only be described through probabilities and complex math equations, or that they exist and not exist, at the same time, that they are here and there in the same instant, and so on.

When we think to a particle (even if, we know, it is a very tiny piece of matter), we have to imagine something (a huge amount of correlated elementary events) distributed in space. In facts, even the imagine of something distributed in space is not correct. We should say “a part of space (even space is made of events, it incessantly happens as everything else) organized in a form that we can recognize as a particle” (in the form of a 3D vortex, characterized by properties that we call mass, motion, charge and spin). Or better, we have to say: “a part of the Elementary Field where the distributions of the tiny fluctuations (Elementary Events) that we call Elementary Action are correlated in a form that we can recognize as a particle of matter”.

Even this short definition is not completely true. But I’m trying to move from a more or less familiar image (something distribute in space) to a completely new and strange image where is something more elementary than mass, matter, particle, some more elementary than space, that is organized by something else (Information) in a particular form. A particle of matter, moving in the Field (organized in a space), with its mass, charge and spin, due to the organization (Information) of the basic components of Elementary Action, its spatial modes (correlations in the intensities of the distributions of the point events that host that particle [mass], in their point directions in space [motion], in their point rotation/chirality [charge] and in their point rotation/direction in space of the axis [spin]).  

These are the ways in which the Elementary Events, the tiny fluctuations of the Elementary Field at Planck scale, express themselves in the incessantly emerging space-time that supports the Structures of Information (waves and vortices, the massive particles, and their interactions). Structures of Information are what organize, give a form to the Field in its fluctuating essence that we call Elementary Action, and, at same time, the manifest result of the coherence/correlation among the tiny fluctuations (in their intensities and modes of expression) of the Field, the Elementary Events, the unmanifest (directly non-observable).

This is result of the process of Formation that we can think as ideally composed by two sub-processes: Creation (the formation of the unmanifest) and Evolution (the formation of the manifestation through the incessant organization, transformation and selection of the unmanifest).

* exists (“is”) because it happens (events),

* has a form determined by the relations that organize those events,

* behaves like the principles of dynamics allow it, through the interactions with the structured Field (DM and DE, OM/other particles and radiation).

A particle is not a point, is not a sphere, has not an immutable form, has not a fixed and definite limit in space, does not exist as we commonly think to objects and even our bodies. A particle is something that happens, an organized set, a net of events. Its form in space depends on the correlations among the modes of expression of the Elementary Action of the point events that host the Information that represents its form/essence and its happening/existence. And more, it depends on the interactions among the correlated elementary fluctuations that support the particle and the elementary fluctuations of the Field both casual and correlated (sign of the presence of derived forces/fields), the interactions with the environment, the other Structures that, for their existence and dynamics, influence the local states of the Field, the Forms that exist, that interact in the surrounding.

== Where is the electron? No point particles. No “solid”, unchangeable particles ==

One of the strangest issues in the quantum world is the declared impossibility of knowing the position of a particle before a measurement or between successive measurements, and, even more, the impossibility of achieving infinite precision in measuring simultaneously conjugate quantities, such as position and speed. Moreover, it is stated that it is even absurd to think that a particle has a unique and certain position, located in space-time.

I think that at least a part quantum weirdness comes from a misunderstanding about what really is a particle. If we think that a particle is a solid object in the sense that we give to a macro object (an iron ball, for instance), all the “descriptions” of the world made by Q.M. are obviously absurd, even if all the “predictions” of the behaviors of quantum objects are completely correct. The same if we think that a particle is only a cloud of the probabilities to detect it.

An electron is not a solid body as we intend objects in our everyday life. Is not a rigid, intangible, immutable sphere, or cube, or egg, or whatever form you prefer. It is not made of matter as we normally intend it, like a marble ball, or a drop of oil, or a gas bubble... '''It is a pattern of organization of a huge number of Elementary Events that locally deform the Elementary Field''' (the Events represent the actions of deforming the Field). It is a particular configuration of Elementary Action.  

Like everything else in the Universe, an electron is a complex event, a process of events, a structure of Information that gives a local form to the Field. It is a pattern of correlations of the dynamic and conservative states of the point events in the Field. It derives from the organization of the dynamics of the microstates associated to those point events.

So, where is the electron? Where is it when we “observe” it, when we “measure” its position? What is an observation, a measure? And when we don’t observe it, when no interactions occur? Is it really a set of possibility, a quantum wave function that express probabilities of existence in different places? Or can we say that the electron exists, or better, happens even if no one observe, no one get a measure, no interactions with something else occur?

I think that also quantum objects (Structures of Information in this System of Knowledge) continue to exist, or better, to happen, even if no one observe them. All the Elementary Events of/in the Field, witch participate to existence the electron, or other elementary particles, that support the Information that give it a form in causal, space and time sense, that give it its mass, motion, charge and spin, that make it interact with the causal fluctuation of the Field, the other Elementary Events that represent the environment with which that particle incessantly interact, that make it interact with other particles, with waves, with the whole Universe.  

We can’t reach a perfect measure of position and velocity of quantum objects, as stated by the Uncertainty Principle. To me, there is something even more uncertain in the way we can get precise measures of the position of a particle. This uncertainty is due to the intrinsic nature of these objects, and, more in general, of the most elementary levels of Reality. Their forms are ever changing, fluctuating around a “mean” shape, a complex attractor, in incessant interaction with the Field itself, all the Information propagating in the Field, all the Structures moving around, the influence of the measurement equipment, our presence, everything…

The elementary levels of Reality are characterized by a high level of instability, in the sense of lack of stability, of incessant mutability. This prevents the possibility to know positions, velocity, etc. with perfect precision, but this is the sign of the wonderful creativity and evolutive potential of Reality. That is the reason why we exist, the reason why the whole Universe exists and evolve.