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Boris Egorov

Dear Vladimir,

Thank you for your kind comment and interesting questions. There are several reasons for including the Big Bang hypothesis in my scenario. First of all it remains the basic hypothesis of the beginning of the Universe in modern cosmology in spite of all its disadvantages. Nevertheless the beginning of the Universe was not my main research goal. My task was to show how the field interpretation of thermodynamics and the new understanding of the thermodynamic entropy could supplement the main physical theories and help decrease the incompleteness of modern physics. As for the role of philosophy in physics I completely agree with Carlo that it is now underestimated. Philosophy is very important for understanding of physics. It can supplement and update the existing methods of cognition.

Kind regards,

Boris

Dear Cristi,

Thank you for your kind comment and interesting remarks. The local energy conservation in GR is actually an additional reason for me to think about combining GR with thermodynamics and not with electrodynamics or QFT which in this case could be deduced from the unified theory as emergent phenomena, as I hope.

Kind regards,

Boris

Dear Dean,

Thank you for the interesting essay. I agree with you that science gives no direct access to truth. What we believe is right today can be refuted tomorrow and our current worldview can be replaced by another one. This is how any scientific revolution works.

I wish you good luck

Boris

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your comment and critical remark. By experiments, I also mean observations, of course. But it is not a law it is just an opinion.

Boris

Dear Scott,

I agree with you that math is a language and should supplement physics but not vice versa. I think that math can be made more physical.

I wish you good luck

Boris

Dear Wanpeng,

I find your essay very interesting. You propose an original idea instead of conventional unification paradigm. I completely agree that we need new ideas of unification or even instead of unification.

I wish you good luck

Boris

Dear Izrael,

Your essay is very interesting. I completely agree with you that physical understanding is very important and in my essay I try to prove it on concrete examples. One mathematical model can have several interpretations and one physical phenomenon can be described by different mathematical models. The force of physics is in the possibility to combine different methods of cognition in order to find the correct solution. Without experiments and math physics is philosophy as it was at the very beginning. But without physical understanding and experimental confirmations physics can turn into mathematical philosophy.

I wish you good luck

Boris

Dear Cristinel,

Your essay is one of the most interesting. You have touched a lot of problems: limits of reductionism, materialism in science, consciousness etc. You are right that modern science is far from pure materialism but I think this eternal struggle between materialism and idealism, holism and reductionism, nevertheless, pushes it forward. Without reductionism and materialism we would not have modern physics. Ostwald considered matter as energy but denied atomism. He was right to some extent matter is energy. But if physics had taken this way then we wouldn't have quantum physics and all its results. It happens sometimes that one of the opposite standpoints in science takes over but the correct solution remains somewhere in the middle.

I wish you good luck

Boris

Dear Peter,

Thanks for your comment. Your essay seems to me interesting and helpful. You are right I meant by dissipated scalar particles Higgs condensate but in my essay I am also trying to understand how Dark energy can increase at constant density.

I wish you good luck

Boris

Essay Abstract

Entropy plays an important role in modern physics but a deeper understanding of it may clear up many open questions. To achieve this goal a speculative scenario is proposed. The classical interpretation of thermodynamics is replaced by a field interpretation. The thermodynamic entropy is divided into different types and endowed with the functions of fields. A new understanding of energy transformations allows combining the first and the second laws of thermodynamics in one principle. The universal law of conservation of energy as a main paradigm is replaced by the idea of dynamic balancing of energies continuously generated at a fundamental level. The proposed principle predicts increase in total energy-mass in all irreversible heat processes e.g. the expansion of the Universe. The proposed concept may help in understanding some problems, such as dark energy, dark matter, unification of interactions, and also in understanding the reason of the mathematical incompleteness.

Author Bio

An independent researcher and inventor, born in 1977. He worked as a logistics specialist in the automotive industry until 2013. Main research area includes: renewable energy, heat engines, thermodynamics and cosmology. In 2015 he developed some methods to increase efficiency of heat engines. Since 2016 he has been working on a new theory of thermodynamics which may solve some problems of physics and especially cosmology. At present moment he is developing an experimental program confirming the new theory and is looking for opportunities to realize it.

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