TFNR - The evolution of the dimensions of Reality

Evolution, together with Creation, represents the backbone of the structure of Reality and its Process of Formation. In the Reality, whose fundamental nature is variation/mutation, everything is incessantly evolving.

Even the fundamental dimensions of Reality, the ways in which the sources manifest themselves, are incessantly evolving. And, what is the actual meaning that "dimensions are evolving"?

Even if in the more advanced physics theories we are now used to think about space and time as something evolving, and the same concepts of causality, spatiality and temporality are no more stable, the idea that the form in which these fundamental dimensions are expressing in the process of construction of Reality evolves itself and that this is one of the basic engines of the evolution of Reality is not so common.

In this evolutionary model of description of Reality, not only forces/causes are thought to evolve, but even causality, the principle, the concept that any effect is produced by a cause, or a combination of causes/forces. The same for spatiality and temporality. Not only space and time organize, transform, in other words, evolve, producing the infinitely variable and complex forms of the Universe. The same principles of spatiality and temporality in this model are subject of evolution.

Evolution of the active dimension: causality

The evolution of the active aspects of the sources, the evolution of the causal agents of Reality, of forces, shapes the intensity and the ways in which events dynamically organize in nets of more and more complex events. Causality, its dynamics and its evolution are a crucial question for the comprehension of Reality. Causality evolves. The evolution of causality is the backbone of the evolution of the whole Reality, from the basic levels of the Action and the Elementary Events, to the more and more complex levels of Information and the Structures of Information, to the Form that populate the Universe.

The main steps in this evolutive path are the following:

• chaos: uncertainty, the minimum correlation among events, maximum stochastic independence,
• possibility: probability, emergence of different patterns of correlation among events,
• necessity: determination, the emergence of more stable patterns of correlation among events,
• finality: orientation, the emergence of a cognitive sense, of the causal orientation / choice of the patterns of correlation among events, the emergence of the capacity to orient the evolution of the correlation among events and to use these correlations, the emergence and the evolution of more oriented functionalities.

Evolution of passive dimensions: spatiality and temporality

The evolution of the passive aspects of the sources, the evolution of the variational substrate of Reality, those properties/principles that we call spatiality and temporality, from which space and time emerge, are one with the evolution of the active aspects, represented by causality. As causality is the main property of Agents/Forces, spatiality and temporality, together, are the main properties of the Acted/Fields.

To understand what "evolution of spatiality and temporality" really means, we have to look at the entities they refer to, the Fields. We have to look at their main property that we call "capacity to vary", that represents the variational aspect of the sources. Agents/Forces can acts on Acted/Fields, which are effected by that Action, varying their states, the spatial and temporal distributions of the elementary fluctuations that we call Elementary Events.

Here the focus is on the evolution of the organization of those distributions that we call "states of the Field", that describe space (position, distances and their dynamics) and time (succession, intervals and their dynamics). The organization, the structuration of space and time modifies the resistance opposed by fields to forces, modifies the dynamics of the interaction between forces and fields, the evolution of the natural constants, the emergence and evolution of the phenomena that we call dark energy and cosmic expansion, and every other phenomena that we can observe in the Universe.

The main steps in this evolutive path are the following:

• nothingness: no interaction between Force and Field, no manifestation of the Source. It is a hypothetical state, because the Source cannot avoid expressing itself
• unstructured Field: absolute vacuum / emptiness, no correlation among Elementary Events, full stochastic independence of the distributions of the fluctuations of the Field in all the modes of Elementary Action. The most elementary form of existence
• structured Field
  • relative vacuum / void: presence of weak correlations in the distributions of the fluctuations of the Field, in all the modes of Elementary Action, local large to medium scale anisotropies, more complex forms of existence, lack of ordinary matter, only presence of dark matter or dark energy, and/or ordinary energy:
    • dark matter (positive mass): low density negative spatial correlations in the distributions of the fluctuations of the Field
    • dark energy (negative mass): low/medium density positive spatial correlations in the distributions of the fluctuations of the Field.
  • ordinary matter space domains: relative vacuum space domains – dark matter or dark energy, and/or ordinary energy, with the presence of localized strong correlations in the distributions of the fluctuations of the Field, in all the modes of Elementary Action, local small-scale anisotropies, more and more complex forms of existence:
    • ordinary matter (positive mass in the inner space volume, negative mass/positive dark energy in the outer space volumes): high density inner negative and low density outer positive spatial correlations in the distributions of the fluctuations of the Field

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"