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Introduction

This should not come as a surprise to most people. Slowly but surely, causality has been gradually removed from the core of the physical theories. Most attempts to explain phenomena in terms of causal mechanisms have been forsaken in favour of very powerful yet empty equations which are devoid of a sensorial connection to reality. Unfortunately, while the quantitative predictions are indeed of utmost importance for the development of technology, it should be clear that the abandonment of rigorous qualitative modelling is certainly unacceptable if any causal understanding of physical phenomena is desired. To make matters worse, the insatiable human need for conceptual understanding has forced several of the purely hypothetical and inherently non-causal abstractions fundamental to mainstream quantitative theories to be considered as physically existent things. These mathematical abstractions now posing as candidates for physical reality include several implausible entities such as structureless and extensionless (zero size) point-particles, 1-dimensional (zero thickness) strings, curved 10-dimensional space-time, probability waves, black holes (or maybe naked singularities), expanding finite-yet-unbounded space, etc.

It is evident that many possible hypotheticals could be invented to explain any phenomenon (like Ptolemy’s epicycles, for example). One of the humble aspirations of this website is to show (in line with Ockham’s Razor) that all the hypothetical mathematical entities that pervade mainstream models are rendered unnecessary to explain physical phenomena as soon as the evidence for the ontologically required physically existent fluid-dynamical sub-atomic causal substrate is fully acknowledged. This will enable the emergence of a fundamental paradigm-shift from an underlying abstract, multiplistic, overly simplistic, self-limiting and reductionistic a-tomic substrate to a realistic, irreducibly complex, holistic, non-reductionistic and inherently unified causal substrate, thus rendering the physical explanations visualizable and hence humanly understandable.

In the articles that will be presented in this enterprise, the main focus will be on a radical re-interpretation of the observational evidence currently available via rigorous causation. This way, not only paradoxes and conceptual internal contradictions will be rejected as theoretical errors, but also non-causal notions such as “action at a distance” will be considered unacceptable. On the other hand, it should be added that not a single working equation is being challenged. While in an ideal scientific theory explanations and equations work hand in hand, the fact is that mathematical descriptions are ultimately independent of causal understanding and can be explained in principle by an infinity of conceptual frameworks. This is why the causal explanations found herein are suggested as an alternative to the fundamentally non-causal interpretive paradigm of Standard Physics (not for the equations), therefore helping to put understanding back into the mathematical relations and presenting an intrinsically unified model that could evolve the equations further and eventually lead to a set of unified quantitative approximations of physical reality, leading to ever-greater qualitative and quantitative predictability and understanding.

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science. Indeed, the majority of the presented information deals with our attempt to understand the Nature of Reality, something which could be named "meta-physics", which is actually the (usually unrecognized) foundation of all science. With this said, it is important to mention that an integral stance will be adopted, stressing a tendency towards an ever-more holistic meta-paradigm. This broad approach enables synergetic resonances between the presented views and different branches of knowledge (such as Theosophy, Rational Philosophy and Plasma Cosmology), hence enabling a deeper unification of the foundations of human knowledge.

 

All contents by Juan Calsiano, Argentina