Today we talk about The Universe out of the Box Worlds and Anti-worlds a book by Giovanni P. Gregori and Bruno G. Gregori published with our publishing house Europe Books.
Europe Books had the pleasure of asking the authors, Giovanni P. Gregori and Bruno G. Gregori, to let the audience know more about The Universe out of the Box Worlds and Anti-worlds. Therefore, here below, you can find the book review. Take a seat and enjoy your reading!!!
“The Universe out of the Box -Worlds and Anti-worlds – New foundations of physics – Rhythms, Golden Ratio, Origin of Life, Antifragility” by Giovanni P. Gregori e Bruno G. Gregori (Europe Books) is defined by the authors as a popular/epistemological presentation of the ideas originally expressed in their work Gregori, G.P., M.T. Hovland, B.A. Leybourne, S. Pellis, V. Straser, B.G. Gregori, G.M. Gregori, and A.R. Simonelli, 2025. Air-earth currents and a universal “law”: filamentary and spiral structures – Repetitiveness, fractality, golden ratio, fine-structure constant, antifragility and “statistics” – The origin of life, New Concepts in Global Tectonics, Journal, 3, (1): 106-225.
The title and structure of the book alone can raise suspicions about its popularization purposes, but it should be considered that for Gregori senior (Giovanni) to have contained his work in just 306 pages is already extraordinary, given that this physicist is accustomed to investigating themes of infinite complexity and breadth in successions of volumes that are almost equally so.
Jokes aside, Bruno Gregori’s introduction clarifies that: “In an interconnected world like ours, filled with information and artificial intelligence, Science with a capital S is suffering from an identity crisis. Today, we can form a fairly precise idea of practically everything. We can discuss not only politics and sports, as many like to do, but also the climate, earthquakes, advanced technologies, vaccines, diseases, and so on.” The problem with this “widespread scientific knowledge” is that ideas and interpretations are taken as “good” because experts draw certain conclusions from natural phenomena. What appears exhaustive to the majority and can be summarized in a few points becomes our “version of the facts,” and what is “well explained” by the expert communicator “becomes our reality.”
The flaw in this shared knowledge is the lack of any knowledge of what goes on “behind the scenes,” of the contradictions between experts, of the methodological aspects of research, of the approximations and errors of interpretations and theories that are “true” until proven otherwise. Paradoxically, the knowledge of our dynamic, interconnected, and information-rich world is “static,” inert, and rejects any reasoning based on scientific research that is far more complex and contradictory than we are willing to accept. Our mind doesn’t want uncertainty, it wants to live in a safe world, in its “comfort zone“. But, when it comes to science, asking yourself more questions, and not settling for the “mainstream“, offers the possibility of a new awareness of the world and of ourselves.
This book aims to offer the opportunity to go “beyond,” to see “behind the scenes” of research in an original and fascinating vision of reality. It stimulates the reader on an intellectual and psychological level, offering a vision where every person’s identity, beliefs, and convictions can change. It attempts to make complex, sometimes abstruse, concepts understandable, even with references to religions, theology and philosophy. A journey through quantum physics, cosmology, and the mystery of life and death.
Bruno declares that his father Giovanni is the master of this “behind the scenes” that allows him to “stick his nose where few dare”. The leitmotif is logic, the rejection of paradoxes, in which physics has been immersed for over a century, according to the authors, with ever new experiments that increase the sense of frustration of researchers since a “theory of everything” capable of bringing order to the enormous amount of data we have acquired is lacking.
The current structure of physics is based on Newton’s principles, which imply the construction of mathematical analysis developed in the 19th century. On the same conceptual basis, electromagnetic phenomena found a logical structure thanks to Maxwell, however revealing a logical “bug” regarding the finite speed of light, which led to the theory of relativity.
The foundations of Newton’s laws are the principle of inertia, of “force”, of “mass” as an indicator of the “laziness” of a body, and then the concept of “energy”. Finally, he conceived reality as two non-communicating reservoirs, those of mass and energy, respectively. Finally, he solved the problem of the motion of planets and satellite, observed by Kepler, by defining universal gravitation, again based on the concept of “mass”, and hypothesized that the gravitational signal propagates instantaneously at infinite speed. The three “original sins” of the formulation are: the hypothesis of continuity; the empirical definition of “force” and “mass”; and the “instantaneous” propagation of the gravitational signal.
The assumption of continuity was rejected by Max Planck who, by rejecting the concept of the infinitesimal, gave birth to quantum physics: nothing is continuous in the Universe. With the criticism of the finite speed of light, Einstein formulated the theory of relativity, which, despite a serious logical error, introduced two new principles: the equivalence of mass and energy, expressed by the formula ; the speed of light is the maximum conceivable and no body with mass can reach it.
The Gregori volume continues with the concept of “monad”, with quanta and slingshot effect, three further cornerstones of knowledge. Another paradoxical discovery is antimatter: a myriad of experiments have generated pairs of particles and antiparticles, a new world as unexpected as it is paradoxical, and the key to solving it seems to be the definition of “time,” with the paradox of its direction, and the “bug” of considering it “absolute,” an indisputable dogma according to ancient Greek thinkers. We could instead speak of worlds α (with time), β (without time) and γ (with anti-time).
Every galaxy of matter, and every antigalaxy of antimatter, experience a trend between Big-Bang and Big-Crunch, repeated in a cyclic way. Space, as we conceived it, can have no limits in space or time.
Concepts hark back to Genesis and the sacred Hindu texts, to Origen and the perception of passing time, to Galileo and Fibonacci, up to SEA (Steady Exhalation and Annihilation), according to which a “messenger” is sent into space by “everything that exists” in every direction and acquires meaning only when it is captured by a receiver. This hypothesis can explain some “mysterious” observed but misunderstood scientific evidence.
And then there’s more: Maxwell’s equations, and the spiral structure shared at every scale, from DNA to galaxies and antigalaxies, a property called “chirality.”
The development of life in the Universe, starting from the “monad”, relies on “statistical” laws including antifragility. Applied to the case of life and anti-life, antifragility is the property of an organism to repair the damage suffered, by improving itself up to the concept of “autopoiesis”, or the ability of living organisms to generate individuals that supplant those that age and die.
“Our book provides a possible solution to many, perhaps most, of the paradoxes of physics. After Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Planck, Einstein, our new formulation solves many mysteries” assure Giovanni P. and Bruno G. Gregori.
Europe Books thanks the authors, Giovanni P. Gregori and Bruno G. Gregori, once again for taking the time and answering our questions. We are really pleased to have walked alongside them on the editorial path that led to the publication of their book The Universe out of the Box Worlds and Anti-worlds. We wish them the best of luck for their future works.
So, my dear reader, all I have to say is to enjoy your reading!
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