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1. Introduction

2. Reality? Universe?

• 2. Terminological conventions
• 2. Reality? Universe? Topic list
• 2.1 The Research Project
• 2.2 Reality - Existence - Essence (Form) – The Process of Formation (Creation and Evolution)
• 2.3 Levels - Dimensions - Scales
• 2.4 The elementary levels of Reality
• 2.5 Entities: Source (Force - Field)
• 2.6 Events: Action - Creation/Existence
• 2.7 Relations: Information/Energy - Complexity - Evolution/Essence (Form)
• 2.8 Processes: Entities that produce Events and Relations that organize them
• 2.9 The world of continuity and the fundamental physical quantities: Mass - Motion - Charge - Spin
• 2.10 The world of granularity: structures and the quantum
• 2.11 Waves and particles - Radiation and matter
• 2.12 The Universe of the Forms
• 2.13 The cosmic evolution
• 2.14 The biological evolution
• 2.15 The cognitive evolution: the "meta" side of Reality

3. The Fundamental Nature of Reality

• 3.1 The Source of Reality
• 3.2 The dimensions of Reality
  • 3.2.1 Cause
  • 3.2.2 Space
  • 3.2.3 Time
• 3.3 The causal evolution of Reality
• 3.4 The levels of Reality
• 3.3 The causal evolution of Reality
• 3.4 The levels of Reality

4. What exists? What happens? How happens?

• 4.1 Ontology, Phenomenology and Dynamics
• 4.2 Entities
  • 4.2.1 Agents / Forces
  • 4.2.2 Acted / Fields
  • 4.2.3 Agency and causality
• 4.3 Events
  • 4.3.1 Elementary Events
  • 4.3.2 Complex Events
  • 4.3.3 Events and Action
• 4.4 Relations
  • 4.4.1 Elementary Relations
  • 4.4.2 Complex Relations
  • 4.4.3 From Relation to Information: the root of Evolution
• 4.5 Processes
  • 4.5.1 Anabolic / constructive-organizing processes
  • 4.5.2 Catabolic / destructive-transforming processes
  • 4.5.3 Mixed / real processes
  • 4.5.4 The Process of Formation of Reality
  • 4.5.5 The formative sub-processes

5. The Process of Formation of Physical Reality

• 5.1 Creation and Evolution in the physical world
  • 5.1.1 Creation (the Dynamics of Elementary Action)
  • 5.1.2 Evolution (the Dynamics of Information)
• 5.2 The causal structure of Reality
• 5.3 The Evolutionary Dynamics

6. The Source: the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field

• 6.1 The Source
• 6.2 The Fundamental Force: the fundamental causal agent
• 6.3 The Elementary Field: the unitary enhanced space-time field

7. Action: the Dynamics of the Source

• 7.1 The Elementary Action
  • 7.1.1 Perturbation – Gradient
  • 7.1.2 Translation - Divergence
  • 7.1.3 Rotation - Curl
• 7.2 "Creation": the Dynamics of Elementary Action
• 7.3 The fundamental principles of the dynamics of the Elementary Field
  • 7.3.1 The principle of Uncertainty
  • 7.3.2 The principle of Action and Reaction
  • 7.3.3 The principle of Minimum Action
  • 7.3.4 The principle of Relation
  • 7.3.5 The principle of General Equivalence
  • 7.3.6 The fundamental constants of Nature
• 7.4 The states of the Elementary Field
  • 7.4.1 Nothingness
  • 7.4.2 Vacuum
  • 7.4.3 Structured Field
• 7.5 Elementary Energy: energy in the unstructured Field

8. Information: the evolution toward complexity

• 8.1 Evolution: the Dynamics of Information
  • 8.1.1 Organization
  • 8.1.2 Transformation
  • 8.1.3 Selection
• 8.2 The role of emergence in the construction of Reality

9. The Structures of Information

• 9.1 Waves – Radiation
• 9.2 Vortices – Elementary particles of matter
• 9.3 Mixed structures – Complex vortices/particles and interactions
• 9.4 Interactions between matter and radiation
• 9.5 Properties of the Structures of Information and the connected derived forces and fields
  • 9.5.1 Mass
  • 9.5.2 Motion
  • 9.5.3 Charge
  • 9.5.4 Spin
  • 9.5.5 A general concept of Inertia
  • 9.5.6 Complex forces and fields
• 9.6 Continuity and quantization, fields and particles, waves and vortices: the duality
• 9.7 Locality, separability, individuation and measurement
• 9.8 Observing Structures from absolute or relative perspectives
• 9.9 Energy and matter in the structured Field
• 9.10 Energy
  • 9.10.1 Dark Energy
  • 9.10.2 Ordinary Energy
• 9.11 Matter
• 9.11.1 Dark matter
• 9.12 Ordinary matter
• 9.13 Some common physical phenomena in the structured Field
  • 9.13.1 Cosmic intergalactic void
  • 9.13.2 Massive particle moving in space-time
  • 9.13.3 Charged particle in an electric field
  • 9.13.4 Charged particle in a magnetic field
  • 9.13.5 Massive particle emitting an electromagnetic wave propagating in space-time
  • 9.13.6 Massive particle interacting with a dark matter structure

10. The Forms and the Universe

• 10.1 The Forms of the Universe
  • 10.1.1 Material forms
  • 10.1.2 Complex structures: atoms, molecules, bodies, systems
  • 10.1.3 The physical structure of living beings
  • 10.1.4 Immaterial forms
• 10.2 The Universe of the Forms
  • 10.2.1 The origin and evolution of the Universe
  • 10.2.2 Dynamics of the cosmos
  • 10.2.3 Objects and structures in the cosmos
• 10.3 A brief history of the Universe

11. A new framework

• 11.1 In Summary
• 11.2 Hypothesis of formalization in Evolutionary Physics

12. Conclusions