TFNR - Paper Contents

Contents

1. Introduction
2. A first look
3. Reality? Universe?
4. The Fundamental Nature of Reality
5. What exists? What happens? How happens?
6. The Process of Formation of Physical Reality
7. The Source: the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field
8. Action: the Dynamics of the Source
9. Information: the evolution toward complexity
10. The Structures of Information
11. The Forms and the Universe
12. Conclusions: a look into the future

Paper Abstract

• Paper Abstract - (T)

1. Introduction

• 1. Introduction - (T)
• 1.1 The Research Project - (T) - (S)
• 1.2 The main questions about Physical Reality - (T) - (S)
• 1.3 Crisis? What Crisis? - (T) - (S)
• 1.4 Very important hypotheses about Reality - (T) - (S)
• 1.5 The global vision - (T) - (S)
• 1.6 How our world works… a new System of Knowledge - (T) - (S)
• 1.7 Reality and Knowledge - (T) - (S)
• 1.8 A new framework: Evolutionary Physics as part of Evolutionary Knowledge - (T) - (S)
• 1.9 Terminological conventions - (T) - (S)
• 1.10 In summary: some fundamental terms - (T)

2. A first look

• 2. A first look - (T)
• 2.1 Knowledge - (T)
• 2.2 Reality - (T)
• 2.3 Microcosm - Physics - (T)
• 2.4 Macrocosm - Cosmology - (T)

3. Reality? Universe?

• 3. Reality? Universe? - (T)
• 3.1 Reality - Existence - Essence (Form) – The Process of Formation (Creation and Evolution) - (T) - (S)
• 3.2 Reality is a Process - (T) - (S)
• 3.3 A landscape a bit confused - (T) - (S)
• 3.4 Looking at the world - The mark of the Source: the Force in Action - (T) - (S)
• 3.5 Why there is something rather than nothing - (T) - (S)
• 3.6 What exists? - (T) - (S)
• 3.7 What exists is what happens. What happens is what exists. Entities and Events - (T) - (S)
• 3.8 What we see in the world, what is really fundamental? - (T) - (S)
• 3.9 Creation "and" Evolution: two complementary aspects of Formation - (T) - (S)
• 3.10 Action and Information: the core of Reality - (T) - (S)
• 3.11 Existence and Essence - (T) - (S)
• 3.12 Nothing is absolute, everything is relative and evolves - (T) - (S)
• 3.13 Why the term "formation" is so central in this system of knowledge - (T) - (S)
• 3.14 The world in the terms of complex interactions of elementary (sub) processes: the construction of Reality - (T) - (S)
• 3.15 Reverse engineering of Reality: a case study - (T) - (S)
• 3.16 A recipe for cooking Reality - (T)

4. The Fundamental Nature of Reality

• 4. The Fundamental Nature of Reality - (T)
• 4.1 The Origin of Reality - (T)
• 4.2 The Properties of Reality - (T)
• 4.3 The Aspects of Reality - (T)
• 4.4 The Dimensionalities / Dimensions of Reality - (T)
  • 4.4.1 Causality / Cause - (T)
  • 4.4.2 Variationality / Variation - (T)
    • 4.4.2.1 Spatiality / Space - (T)
    • 4.4.2.2 Temporality / Time - (T)
  • 4.4.3 The causal evolution of Reality - (T)
  • 4.4.4 The main causal chain of Reality - (T)
  • 4.4.5 The spatial and temporal evolution of Reality - (T)
• 4.5 The Levels of Reality - (T)
• 4.6 The Scales of Reality - (T)
• 4.7 The Principle of Reality - (T) - (S)
• 4.8 The Principles of Reality - (T) - (S)
• 4.9 Simplicity, elegance and naturalness - (T) - (S)

5. What exists? What happens? How happens?

• 5. What exists? What happens? How happens? - (T)
• 5.1 Ontology, Phenomenology and Dynamics - (T)
  • 5.1.1 Ontology: Entities - (T)
  • 5.1.2 Phenomenology: Events and Relations - (T)
  • 5.1.3 Dynamics: Processes - (T)
• 5.2 Entities - (T)
  • 5.2.1 Sources - (T)
  • 5.2.2 Agents / Forces - (T)
  • 5.2.3 Acted / Fields - (T)
  • 5.2.4 Sources and Agency - (T)
• 5.3 Events - (T)
  • 5.3.1 Elementary Events - (T)
  • 5.3.2 Complex Events - (T)
  • 5.3.3 From Events to Action: the dynamics of Creation - (T)
• 5.4 Relations - (T)
  • 5.4.1 Elementary Relations - (T)
  • 5.4.2 Complex Relations - (T)
  • 5.4.3 From Relation to Information: the dynamics of Evolution - (T)
• 5.5 Processes - (T)
  • 5.5.1 Anabolic / constructive-organizing processes - (T)
  • 5.5.2 Catabolic / destructive-transforming processes - (T)
  • 5.5.3 Mixed / real processes - (T)
  • 5.5.4 The Process of Formation of Reality - (T)
  • 5.5.5 The formative sub-processes: Creation "and" Evolution - (T)
  • 5.5.6 Derived processes - (T)

6. The Process of Formation of Physical Reality

• 6. The Process of Formation of Physical Reality - (T)
• 6.1 Creation and Evolution in the physical world - (T)
  • 6.1.1 Creation (the Dynamics of Action) - (T)
  • 6.1.2 Evolution (the Dynamics of Information) - (T)
• 6.2 The causal Formation of Reality: agents of Formation towards Complexity - (T)
• 6.3 The variational Formation of Reality: products of Formation in terms of inhomogeneity - (T)

7. The Source of Reality or Primary Source: the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field

• 7. The Source of Reality or Primary Source: the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field - (T)
• 7.1 The Fundamental Force: the fundamental causal agent - (T)
• 7.2 The Elementary Field: the unitary variational acted - (T)
• 7.3 Agency - (T)
  • 7.3.1 Agency and Causality - (T)
  • 7.3.2 Agency and Variationality - (T)

8. Action: the Dynamics of the Source

• 8. Action: the product of the Dynamics of the Source - (T)
• 8.1 The Dynamics of Action - (T)
• 8.2 The Elementary Action - (T) - (S)
• 8.3 The Dynamics of Elementary Action - (T)
  • 8.3.1 Perturbation – Gradient - (T)
  • 8.3.2 Translation - Divergence - (T)
  • 8.3.3 Rotation - Curl - (T)
• 8.4 The fundamental principles of the dynamics of the Elementary Action - (T)
  • 8.4.1 The principle of Uncertainty - (T)
  • 8.4.2 The principle of Action and Reaction - (T)
  • 8.4.3 The principle of Minimum Action - (T)
  • 8.4.4 Other Principles of Evolutionary Dynamics - (T)
  • 8.4.5 Other Physical Principles - (T)
• 8.5 Fundamental Physical Quantities - (T)
• 8.6 The fundamental constants of Nature - (T)
• 8.7 Continuity (or) and Granularity - (T)

9. Information: the evolution toward complexity

• 9. Information: the evolution toward complexity - (T)
• Relation + Relation in Physical Reality + From Relation to Information: the dynamics of Evolution
• 9.1 Evolution: the Dynamics of Information - (T)
• 9.2 The Cycle of Information - (T)
  • 9.2.1 Organization - (T)
  • 9.2.2 Transformation - (T)
  • 9.2.3 Selection - (T)
• 9.3 Complexity - (T)
• 9.4 The role of emergence in the construction of Reality - (T)
• 9.5 Energy - (T)
  • 9.5.1 Elementary Energy: energy in the unstructured Field - (T)
  • 9.5.2 Complex Energy - (T)
• 9.6 States - (T)
  • 9.6.1 The states of the Elementary Field - (T)
  • 9.6.1 States of Physical Fields - (T)

10. The Structures of Information

• 10. The Structures of Information - (T)
• 10.1 Waves – Radiation - (T)
• 10.2 Vortices – Matter - (T)
• 10.3 Interactions - (T)
• 10.4 Mixed structures – Complex vortices/particles and interactions - (T)
• 10.5 Classification of Physical Structures of Information - (T)
• 10.6 Dynamics of the Structures of Information - (T)
• 10.7 Properties of the Structures of Information - (T)
• 10.8 Derived structured physical forces and fields - (T)
  • 10.8.1 Space-time and metric phenomena - (T)
  • 10.8.2 Mass and gravitational phenomena - (T)
  • 10.8.3 Motion and kinetic phenomena - (T)
  • 10.8.4 Charge and electric phenomena - (T)
  • 10.8.5 Spin and magnetic phenomena - (T)
  • 10.8.6 Complex forces and fields and their phenomena - (T)
  • 10.8.7 Unification of the physical derived structured forces and fields - (T)
• 10.9 Dualities in the world of the Structures of Informations - (T)
  • 10.9.1 Continuity and quantization - (T)
  • 10.9.2 Quantum fields and particles - (T)
  • 10.9.3 Waves and particles / vortices - (T)
• 10.10 Locality, separability, individuation and measurement - (T)
• 10.11 Observing Structures from absolute or relative perspectives - (T)
• 10.12 Energy and matter in the structured Field - (T)
• 10.13 Energy in the structured Field - (T)
  • 10.13.1 Dark energy - (T)
  • 10.13.2 Ordinary energy - (T)
    • 10.13.2.1 Radiant energy - (T)
      • 10.13.2.1.1 Gravitational Waves - (T)
      • 10.13.2.1.2 Electromagnetic Waves - (T)
• 10.14 Matter - (T)
  • 10.14.1 Dark matter - (T)
    • 10.14.1.1 Halos / Vortices - (T)
  • 10.14.2 Ordinary matter - (T)
    • 10.14.2.3 Particles / Vortices - (T)
• 10.15 Interactions between matter and radiation - (T)
• 10.16 Some common physical phenomena in the structured Field - (T)
  • 10.16.1 Cosmic intergalactic void - (T)
  • 10.16.2 Massive particle moving in space-time - (T)
  • 10.16.3 Charged particle in an electric field - (T)
  • 10.16.4 Charged particle in a magnetic field - (T)
  • 10.16.5 Massive particle emitting an electromagnetic wave propagating in space-time - (T)
  • 10.16.6 Massive particle interacting with a dark matter structure - (T)

11. The Forms and the Universe

• 11. The Forms and the Universe - (T)
• 11.1 The Forms of the Universe - (T)
  • 11.1.1 Material forms - (T)
  • 11.1.2 Complex structures: atoms, molecules, bodies, systems - (T)
  • 11.1.3 The physical structure of living beings - (T)
  • 11.1.4 Immaterial forms - (T)
• 11.2 The Universe of the Forms - (T)
  • 11.2.1 The origin and evolution of the Universe - (T)
  • 11.2.2 Dynamics of the cosmos - (T)
  • 11.2.3 Objects and structures in the cosmos - (T)
• 11.3 A brief history of the Universe - (T)

12. Conclusions: a look into the future

• 12. Conclusions: a look into the future - (T)