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

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 The Principle of Reality - (T) - (S)
• 1.11 The Principles of Reality - (T) - (S)
• 1.12 Simplicity, elegance and naturalness - (T) - (S)

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. Reality? Universe? Topic list - (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)

4. The Fundamental Nature of Reality

• 3. The Fundamental Nature of Reality - (T)
• 3.1 The Source of Reality - (T)
• 3.2 The dimensions of Reality - (T)
  • 3.2.1 Cause / Causality - (T)
  • 3.2.2 Variation / Variationality - (T)
    • 3.2.2.1 Space / Spatiality - (T)
    • 3.2.2.2 Time / Temporality - (T)
• 3.3 The causal evolution of Reality - (T)
• The spatial and temporal evolution of Reality - (T)
• 3.5 The levels of Reality - (T)
• 3.6 The aspects of Reality - (T)
• 3.6.1 The main causal chain of Reality - (T)

5. What exists? What happens? How happens?

• 4. What exists? What happens? How happens? - (T)
• 4.1 Ontology, Phenomenology and Dynamics - (T)
• 4.2 Entities - (T)
  • 4.2.1 Sources - (T)
  • 4.2.2 Agents / Forces - (T)
  • 4.2.4 Agency and Causality - (T)
  • 4.2.3 Acted / Fields - (T)
  • 4.2.4 Agency and Variationality - (T)
• 4.3 Events - (T)
  • 4.3.1 Elementary Events - (T)
  • 4.3.2 Complex Events - (T)
  • 4.3.3 Events and Action - (T)
• 4.4 Relations - (T)
  • 4.4.1 Elementary Relations - (T)
  • 4.4.2 Complex Relations - (T)
  • 4.4.3 From Relation to Information: the root of Evolution - (T)
• 4.5 Processes - (T)
  • 4.5.1 Anabolic / constructive-organizing processes - (T)
  • 4.5.2 Catabolic / destructive-transforming processes - (T)
  • 4.5.3 Mixed / real processes - (T)
  • 4.5.4 The Process of Formation of Reality - (T)
  • 4.5.5 The formative sub-processes - (T)

6. The Process of Formation of Physical Reality

• 5. The Process of Formation of Physical Reality - (T)
• 5.1 Creation and Evolution in the physical world - (T)
  • 5.1.1 Creation (the Dynamics of Elementary Action) - (T)
  • 5.1.2 Evolution (the Dynamics of Information) - (T)
• 5.2 The causal structure of Reality - (T)
• 5.3 The Evolutionary Dynamics - (T)

7. The Source: the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field

• 6. The Source: the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field - (T)
• 6.1 The Source - (T)
• 6.2 The Fundamental Force: the fundamental causal agent - (T)
• 6.3 The Elementary Field: the unitary enhanced space-time field - (T)

8. Action: the Dynamics of the Source

• 7. Action: the Dynamics of the Source - (T)
• 7.1 The Elementary Action - (T) - (S)
  • 7.1.1 Perturbation – Gradient - (T)
  • 7.1.2 Translation - Divergence - (T)
  • 7.1.3 Rotation - Curl - (T)
• 7.2 Creation: the Dynamics of Elementary Action - (T)
• 7.3 The fundamental principles of the dynamics of the Elementary Field - (T)
  • 7.3.1 The principle of Uncertainty - (T)
  • 7.3.2 The principle of Action and Reaction - (T)
  • 7.3.3 The principle of Minimum Action - (T)
  • 7.3.4 The principle of Relation - (T)
  • 7.3.5 The principle of General Equivalence - (T)
• 7.4 The states of the Elementary Field - (T)
  • 7.4.1 Nothingness - (T)
  • 7.4.2 Vacuum - (T)
  • 7.4.3 Structured Field - (T)
• 7.5 The fundamental constants of Nature - (T)
• 7.6 Elementary Energy: energy in the unstructured Field - (T)

9. Information: the evolution toward complexity

• 8. Information: the evolution toward complexity - (T)
• 8.1 Evolution: the Dynamics of Information - (T)
  • 8.1.1 Organization - (T)
  • 8.1.2 Transformation - (T)
  • 8.1.3 Selection - (T)
• 8.2 The role of emergence in the construction of Reality - (T)

10. The Structures of Information

• 9. The Structures of Information - (T)
• 9.1 Waves – Radiation - (T)
• 9.2 Vortices – Elementary particles of matter - (T)
• 9.3 Mixed structures – Complex vortices/particles and interactions - (T)
• 9.4 Interactions between matter and radiation - (T)
• 9.5 Properties of the Structures of Information and the connected derived forces and fields - (T)
  • 9.5.1 Mass - (T)
  • 9.5.2 Motion - (T)
  • 9.5.3 Charge - (T)
  • 9.5.4 Spin - (T)
  • 9.5.5 A general concept of Inertia - (T)
  • 9.5.6 Complex forces and fields - (T)
• 9.6 Continuity and quantization, fields and particles, waves and vortices: the duality - (T)
• 9.7 Locality, separability, individuation and measurement - (T)
• 9.8 Observing Structures from absolute or relative perspectives - (T)
• 9.9 Energy and matter in the structured Field - (T)
• 9.10 Energy - (T)
  • 9.10.1 Dark Energy - (T)
  • 9.10.2 Ordinary Energy - (T)
• 9.11 Matter - (T)
  • 9.11.1 Dark matter - (T)
  • 9.11.2 Ordinary matter - (T)
• 9.12 Some common physical phenomena in the structured Field - (T)
  • 9.12.1 Cosmic intergalactic void - (T)
  • 9.12.2 Massive particle moving in space-time - (T)
  • 9.12.3 Charged particle in an electric field - (T)
  • 9.12.4 Charged particle in a magnetic field - (T)
  • 9.12.5 Massive particle emitting an electromagnetic wave propagating in space-time - (T)
  • 9.12.6 Massive particle interacting with a dark matter structure - (T)

11. The Forms and the Universe

• 10. The Forms and the Universe - (T)
• 10.1 The Forms of the Universe - (T)
  • 10.1.1 Material forms - (T)
  • 10.1.2 Complex structures: atoms, molecules, bodies, systems - (T)
  • 10.1.3 The physical structure of living beings - (T)
  • 10.1.4 Immaterial forms - (T)
• 10.2 The Universe of the Forms - (T)
  • 10.2.1 The origin and evolution of the Universe - (T)
  • 10.2.2 Dynamics of the cosmos - (T)
  • 10.2.3 Objects and structures in the cosmos - (T)
• 10.3 A brief history of the Universe - (T)

12. Conclusions

• 12. Conclusions - (T)