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3. Reality? Universe?

• 3. Reality? Universe? - (T)
• 3.1 Reality - Existence - Essence (Form) – The Process of Formation (Creation and Evolution) - (T)
• 3.2 Levels - Aspects - Dimensions - (T)
• 3.3 The elementary levels of Reality - (T)
• 3.4 Entities: Source (Force - Field) - (T)
• 3.5 Events: Action - Creation/Existence - (T)
• 3.6 Relations: Information/Energy - Complexity - Evolution/Essence (Form) - (T)
• 3.7 Processes: Entities that produce Events and Relations that organize them - (T)
• 3.8 The world of continuity and the fundamental physical quantities: Mass - Motion - Charge - Spin - (T)
• 3.9 The world of granularity: structures and the quantum - (T)
• 3.10 Waves and particles - Radiation and matter - (T)
• 3.11 The Universe of the Forms - (T)
• 3.12 The cosmic evolution - (T)
• 3.13 The biological evolution - (T)
• 3.14 The cognitive evolution: the "meta" side of Reality - (T)

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

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

3.2 Levels - Aspects - Dimensions - Scales

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

3.3 The elementary levels of Reality

• The elementary levels of Reality - (T)
• From nothingness to emptiness - from vacuum to substance: the dance of opposites - (T)
• From nothing to something - (T)
• From something to nothing - (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)
• Elementary Action and the fundamental principles of 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)
• Empty space is the raw substance of Reality - (T)
• The principle of individuation - (T)
• Recipe for constructing a Reality - (T)
• The fundamental principles of Elementary Dynamics (Principles of Action) - (T)
• From the fundamental principles to the laws of nature - (T)

3.4 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 - (T)
• 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)

3.5 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)
• From Action to Information. Flux and state - (T)

3.6 Relations: Information/Energy - Complexity - 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)

3.7 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)

3.8 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)
• The emergence of space-time - (T)
• The fundamental physical quantities in the terms of deformation of a homogeneous field - (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 phenomena - two sides of the same coin - (T)
• A general concept of Inertia - (T)
• The Higgs mechanism in the term of Perturbation - (T)
• Polarization in the gravitational field - (T)
• What we intend for negative mass - (T)
• Dark energy in the Universe at all scales - (T)

3.9 The world of granularity: structures and the quantum

• The world of granularity: structures and the quantum - (T)
• Why 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)

3.10 Waves "AND" particles - Radiation and matter

• Waves "AND" particles - Radiation and matter - (T)
• The shape of ordinary matter particles - (T)
• Emission / absorption of photons - (T)
• Nature, shape and dimensions of photons - (T)
• The shape of atoms and molecules - (T)
• The Standard model of particles is substantially 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)

3.11 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)

3.12 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)

3.13 The biological evolution

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

3.14 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"