TFNR - Paper Contents

2. Reality? Universe?

• Reality? Universe? Topic list

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. 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