TFNR - More topics

• 2. Terminological conventions

2.1 The Research Project

• The main questions about Physical Reality
• Very important hypotheses about Reality
• The global vision
• How our world works… a new System of Knowledge
• Reality and Knowledge
• A new framework: Evolutionary Physics as part of Evolutionary Knowledge
• The principle of Reality
• Simplicity, elegance and naturalness

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

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

2.3 Levels - Dimensions - Scales

• Reality is like an onion? The multi-level structure of Reality
• Cause, space and time: the dimensions of Reality
• The evolution of the dimensions of Reality
• From the fundamental dimensions of Reality to the nature of the physical quantities
• A matter of scale
• Could, Should, Would: the evolution of causality or the causal evolution of Reality
• No limits in cause, space and time
• The main causal chain of Reality

2.4 The elementary levels of Reality

• From nothingness to emptiness - from vacuum to substance: the dance of opposites
• Variation, propagation, conservation: the basic functional operators of Reality
• Evolutionary Dynamics: why, what and how in the very fabric of Reality
• Gradient, divergence, rotation: from probability distributions to differential operators
• The Elementary Action and the fundamental principles of the Elementary Dynamics
• Space time curvature in the terms of Elementary Action: Perturbation
• Propagation in space-time in the terms of Elementary Action: Translation
• Conservation in space-time in the terms of Elementary Action: Rotation
• Propagation as conservation in space and Conservation as propagation in time
• The states of the Elementary Field: the correlation among Elementary Events
• Empty space? Quantum fluctuations? Particles and waves in space?
• The fundamental principles of the Elementary Dynamics (Principles of Action)
• From fundamental principles to the laws of nature

2.5 Entities: Source (Force - Field)

• Sources, forces and fields
• The secret nature of the Source: Quantum vs God
• Agency, agent, acted, action
• No supernatural agency, agents, acted and actions
• How many wrong ideas about sources, forces and fields
• Forces and fields as real entities
• One Source, many sources
• One Force, many forces
• One Field, many fields
• Absolute and relative - Transcendence and immanence - Unity and multiplicity
• Derivation and emergence

Events: Action - Creation --> Existence

• Pressure to existence, resistance to variation: the Physics of Creation
• Action: the expression of the incessant tension to existence
• Gradients: the fundaments of existence
• Generation, propagation and conservation of gradients
• Stress and constraint: from independence to correlation
• De-formation of fields: energy / information
• No aether at all: the elementary "substance"

Relations: Information/Energy - Evolution --> Essence (Form)

• What evolves?
• Relation and Information: the “objects” of evolution
• Information “and/or” Energy
• Evolution: the Metabolic Cycle of Information
• Information and complexity
• Chaos, Organization, Order: entropy and …enthalpy
• From chaos to order: state / phase transitions
• Different kinds of order
• The evolution of evolution
• The inconstancy of the natural constants

Processes: Entities that produce Events and Relations that organize them

• A perfect evolving system: Entities, Events, Relations, Processes
• Why complexity arises?
• Continuity and granularity: different nested levels of Reality need different physical models/theories
• The unhappy wedding between General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
• What is the place of Special and General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Standard Model in this model
• A geometry… little geometric: from metrics to shape

The world of continuity and the fundamental physical quantities: Mass - Motion - Charge - Spin

• From the Elementary Events (Elementary Action) to the fundamental physical quantities
• Mass (Perturbation – Gradient – Difference)
• Motion (Translation – Divergence – Flux)
• Charge (Rotation: chirality – Curl / Rot – Vorticity / Circulation)
• Spin (Rotation: axis orientation – Div Curl / RotAx - Spin)
• Unbelievable equivalencies
• Gravity and Dark Energy: two complementary forces - two sides of the same coin
• A general concept of Inertia
• The Higgs mechanism in the term of Perturbation

The world of granularity: structures and the quantum

• Structures in the quantum world?
• Quantum structures and quantum fields?
• Potential energy of a quantum field
• Wave, Vortices, Interactions: Radiation and Matter
• Gravitational and electromagnetic fields as a partial view of the dynamics of the Elementary Field
• The duality problem: wave vs Particle models of e.m. radiation and particles
• The “weird” misunderstanding about waves: one cycle, more cycles
• Double slits and other key experiments
• Entanglement and the spooky action at distance: conservation of order/organization
• Waves and vortices (simple particles) moving in the Field
• No point particles, no singularities
• The emergence of granularity
• Jelly balls in jelly flippers: the weirdness of quantum world
• Quantum structures in a continuous world: continuity and quantization
• Quantum fields in the terms of the structure and dynamics of the Elementary Field
• Fields always exists even when they do not appear: events and phenomena as manifestations of fields
• Energy, coherence, correlation

Waves "AND" particles - Radiation and matter

• The shape of ordinary matter particles
• The shape of atoms and molecules
• The Standard model of particles is correct, but…
• The non-particle nature of the most part of the world
• Dark and ordinary energy: a different kind of physical quantities
• Dark and ordinary matter: not just a matter of density
• The distribution of dark matter in space
• The evolution of dark matter in time
• The interaction between dark and ordinary/visible matter
• Why cannot we find the dark side of the Universe?
• Dark Matter vs Dark Energy
• Dark matter and dark energy: the structure of the invisible Universe
• The matter / antimatter unbalance: a question of chirality

The Universe of the Forms

• The Forms of the Universe. The Universe of the Forms
• Stars and galaxies: the cosmic bricks
• What made galaxies and how are galaxies made?
• Black Holes as super particles
• Clusters, super-clusters, cosmic fluxes, great attractors, walls and voids: the cosmic buildings and roads

The cosmic evolution

• Some astrophysical and cosmological phenomena
• The dynamics of the cosmic feedback
• What doesn’t work in the Standard Model of Cosmology
• Who needs a Big Bang?
• Who needs a Cosmic Inflation?
• No Big Bang and Inflation: an incessant creation and evolution
• The beginning of the Universe
• The formation and the evolution of the Universe

The biological evolution

• From inorganic to organic: a matter of complexity

The cognitive evolution: the "meta" side of Reality

• As complexity arises: from organic matter to the mind
• Material and immaterial: what’s the difference? The “meta” side of Reality
• The emergence of sense and finality

Links to the tables of contents of TFNR Paper

• Go to the contents list of the paper "The Fundamental Nature of Reality"

• Go to Chapter 2 "A first look"