Physics Foundations Society
Founders and Contributors
Physics Foundations Society has been founded by four Finnish scientists – Dr. Tuomo Suntola, Prof. Ari Lehto, Dr. Heikki Sipilä, and Dr. Tarja Kallio-Tamminen – as "Universe Club" in 1998 and a registered society in 2008. The founders cover a wide range of innovative academic and industrial experience from the philosophy of science to nuclear physics, materials sciences, and space-craft instrumentation. Contributor's team was complemented by Dr. Avril Styrman in 2016.
Physics Foundations Society
-towards a holistic view of physical reality
Tuomo Suntola
Tuomo Suntola, PhD in Electron Physics (1971), has far-reaching academic and industrial career comprising pioneering work from fundamental theoretical findings to successful industrial applications. He is the father of the Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technology which is an enabling technology for nanoscale semiconductor device manufacturing. Beside his industrial research he was searching for a holistic perspective to the physical reality – which, in mid 1990s, crystalized to the Dynamic Universe approach allowing the study of the universe as a dynamic energy system with the energies of gravitation and motion in balance.
“Considerations of the philosophy of science and the foundations of physics have been a source of inspiration throughout my career, both in technological developments and the search of a holistic view of physical reality".
Ari Lehto
Ari Lehto, PhD in Physics (1978), discovered that the period doubling mechanism, a universal property of nonlinear dynamical systems, governs the buildup of structures from the intrinsic properties of the elementary particles to the large scale systems with cosmological dimensions.
“The mechanism that indicates a high degree of order in nature is not a part of the prevailing theories but it could give a major contribution to our understanding of the physical reality and the origin of the invariant properties and structures of matter."
Professor emeritus Ari Lehto has generative industrial and academic careers. He is the inventor of novel micro devices and their manufacturing technologies.
Heikki Sipilä
Heikki Sipilä, PhD in Technical Physics (1978), beside his industrial initiatives and exacting developments of scientific instruments Dr. Sipilä has thoroughly examined the basis of physical theories and the message of Mach’s principle to the linkage between local and global.
“Empirical verification of theories is incorruptible; nature is not built on epicycles or correction parameters.”
Tarja Kallio-Tamminen
Kallio-Tamminen, PhD in Theoretical Philosophy (2004), M.Sc. in High Energy Physics (1983) has explored the criteria and structures of scientific theories and the cultural implications of natural sciences. In recent years she has focused more on yoga-philosophy and is actively co-operating with neuroscientists in development of EEG-guided meditation.
“I am attracted by the clarity and coverage of the Dynamic Universe theory and the increased order and unity it, together with the Period Doubling Mechanism brings to our picture of reality. Ultimately the theories call for a balanced harmony between the material and mental aspects of life.”
Avril Styrman
Avril Styrman, PhD in Philosophy (2017). In his doctoral thesis, he applies the method of economical unification in addressing philosophical questions. In the method, the Principle of Economy or Unificatory Power is applied as an evaluation criterion of scientific and philosophical theories and their fusions. The fusion of absolute simultaneity, presentism, the conservation law of energy in spherically closed space and ontological realism is identified as the most economical of the available fusions of philosophy and physics, and applied as the ontological ground for concepts and semantics and in addressing questions and resolving problems.
"I am attracted by the Dynamic Universe due to its unificatory power and its compatibility with absolute simultaneity and presentism."
Recent
In a holistic perspective, time is absolute and relativity a direct consequence of the conservation of total energy
Tuomo Suntola, Physics Essays 34, 4 (2021)
We are taught to think that the description of relativistic phenomena requires distorted time and distance. The message of this essay is that, in a holistic perspective, time and distance are universal coordinate quantities, and relativity is a direct consequence of the conservation of energy. ... FULL TEXT (PDF)
See also: ACADEMIA Letters, August 2021, Tuomo Suntola "An observer-oriented theory with distorted time, or a system-oriented theory with universal time".
Unification in Physics and Philosophy, International Workshop in Helsinki on May 11th 2019
Youtube video: https://youtu.be/w-amqvNfJ_A
Proceedings: Journal of Physics, Conference Series 1466 (2020) 012001
The Proceedings is now available online: https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1742-6596/1466/1
Avril Styrman: Only a unified ontology can remedy disunification
Tuomo Suntola: Unification of theories requires a postulate basis in common
Heikki Sipilä: Is the Solar System expanding?
Tarja Kallio-Tamminen: Dynamic Universe – natural science and philosophy in unison