The Contemporary State of Fundamental Physical Research and the Future Path to Scientific Knowledge

TL;DR

This paper argues that modern physics models are flawed due to reliance on phenomenological approaches and advocates returning to causal ontological methods, proposing generalized classical physics as a better foundation for future scientific progress.

Contribution

It highlights the shortcomings of current models and suggests a paradigm shift back to causal ontological approaches, including a generalized classical physics framework.

Findings

Contemporary models contain unresolved problems.

Classical physics can be extended to describe inertia mass increase.

A return to causal ontological approach can advance scientific understanding.

Abstract

Classical physics has enabled the acquisition of significant knowledge of the physical properties of nature on a standard macroscopic scale. These achievements were driven by use of the causal ontological approach (proposed originally by Aristotle) to formulate models of physical reality. At the beginning of the 20th century, however, the physics community began to prefer models based on a fundamentally different approach to human knowledge. Copenhagen quantum mechanics (CQM) was used to describe the micro-world. The special theory of relativity was used to describe the kinematics of objects moving at high velocity values in both the macroscopic and microscopic regions. This phenomenological approach to knowledge has been more focused on how things appear - instead of their actual properties and causal sequence. In the middle of the 20th century, the causal ontological approach was used to develop a significant scientific advance: the systematization of fundamental strongly interacting particles on the basis of unified algebra in three-dimensional isotopic spin space for spin values 1, 1/2, and 0. However, it was later strongly deformed under the influence of the phenomenological approach and the quark model. This paper will show that practically all contemporary theoretical models of physical reality contain mistakes or unresolved problems. Further scientific progress can be obtained if (and only if) scientists return to the successful causal ontological approach and falsification. Classical physics may be slightly generalized to enable the description of inertia mass increase in dependence on velocity, replacing the relativity theory and CQM. New assumptions may then be employed using generalized classical physics (GCP) to formulate new descriptions of observed phenomena that were previously inaccurately interpreted and used to promote fundamentally inadequate theories.