TFNR - A lot of work to do
This is only the beginning. There is a lot of work to do.
The claims that physics and cosmology are substantially complete and that there is nothing left to explain in Nature, which are sometimes made by some incautious researcher, make me smile. The Universe is so vast and complex that I don't think humanity runs the risk of having nothing more to investigate, to discover, to understand.
More in depth
Many ideas, concepts, hypotheses have only been hinted at. In-depth studies and verifications are necessary both from a theoretical and an observational / experimental point of view.
Even if my intent has always been to provide a unified and coherent vision, some parts appear fragmented and unrelated, also because they were developed in different and successive moments of this long research.
The development of this Knowledge System is only sketchy. It is necessary to deepen all the fundamental themes, such as for example the dynamics of the Elementary Action, so complex, so "alien" to the physics we are used to, so difficult to support with direct observation and experimentation, and many secondary aspects, but certainly important for understanding Physical Reality and the Universe.
Formalization
We need to develop an innovative and solid reference framework for mathematical / quantitative formalization, capable of representing the dynamics of the most elementary levels of Reality and, at the same time, of welcoming, integrating and enhancing the formalisms of Special and General Relativity and those of Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model of particles.
In the effort towards integration it will be necessary to give up something.
The relativistic vision will have to renounce its peculiar rigid and restrictive concepts of Reality and Realism, and the irreducible search for a determinism that cannot find evidence in the fundamentally uncertain nature of Physical Reality. Relativity is a theory of gravity, and therefore of mass and space-time (moreover seen as distinct entities and phenomena). It is a non-quantized field theory, very powerful in describing the interaction of massive objects and curved spaces and times, velocities and accelerations, but unable to describe complex and weird objects such as waves and particles (that make up those masses) and the their kinetic, electromagnetic, weak and strong nuclear interactions and phenomena.
The quantum vision will have to give up its infinite, and often imaginative, not to say absurd, interpretations, but above all it will have to give up a concept considered central, which is so unnatural, as to sound somehow supernatural, belonging to that world of beliefs, magic , superstition, mysticism, which science abhors, regards with suspicion and contempt: the violation of the principle of locality. Even if it is more comfortable, less tiring, to accept that quantum information propagates at instantaneous speed while not violating the principle of causality in its essence, in my opinion physics will have to do something more, work harder, to understand reason, the fundamental nature of what is observed in phenomena such as quantum entanglement, the two-slit experiment, and other phenomena that determine the "weirdness" of the quantum world.
Observations and experiments
The cognitive domain of Nature
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