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Saturday, April 20, 2019

Fundamentals of physics

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This post is an outline of my philosophy of physics. There are 18 principles divided into 5 sections.

    A. What is physics?

• Physics is the study of matter, motion, force, space and time

    B. Matter

• Matter consists of matter and extremely small empty space
• Empty space consists of empty space and extremely small matter
• Matter consists of infinitely smaller structures and particles
• Every particle is a unified structure of even smaller matter
• The properties of matter are determined by its underlying structure
• Interlocking structures hold a piece of matter together
• A single particle cannot be in multiple places at once

    C. Motion and force

• All matter moves according to the forces that are affecting or have affected it
• Every physical force is matter pushing or pulling other matter by collision
• Every physical field of force is actually microscopic or hidden matter pushing and pulling
• Colliding particles can temporarily overlap with their smaller particles on the edge
• Sometimes subatomic particles can travel straight through other matter
• A shaking or pulsating particle moving through space moves like a wave

    D. Space

• There are three spatial dimensions
• Spatial dimensions above three do not exist

    E. Time

• Time is the process by which reality moves from past, present to future
• Without time, matter cannot move

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