HOMEPAGE

Corephysics taxonomises the core objects in physics.
Many objects are described in physics but only fifteen are "core".
Only core objects are stableable or semistableable.
The core objects are the taxons of Corephysics.
Each taxon has distinct properties.
The taxons are grouped into five taxas.
Each taxa has distinct properties.
The five taxas form a structure that is the "trunk" of physics, out of which which all physics branches grow.

ON TAXONOMY

Taxonomy is the science of identifying, classifying, and relating entities.
An accurate taxonomy consists of known facts with no relevant known fact omitted.
If a taxonomy contains assumptions they must be clearly identified as such and preferably be framed between entry facts and exit facts.
The accuracy of a taxonomy declines as the number of its assumptions increases.
There are two types of taxonomy:

Static taxonomies: which deterministically classify entities as at a single moment (eg: the Periodic Table).

Dynamic taxonomies: which causally and deterministically classify entities as they evolve in some way (eg: the Big Bang Standard Model).

OUTRO

Corephysics is a dynamic taxonomy that evolves through five taxas of increasing mass and complexity.
The taxons of each succeeding taxa are structures made of numbers of the taxons of the preceding taxa.
Rigour is maintained by confining Corephysics to known facts with any necessary assumptions being clearly identified as such and framed between entry facts and exit facts.

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SUPERCEDED MATTER

TAXONOMY: A scheme of, usually hierarchical, classification that clarifies the relationships between things.
PHYSICS: The branch of science concerned with the properties and interactions of space, time, matter, and energy.
CORE: The central and/or essential part of a object, group, concept, knowledgebase, skillset, etc.
COREPHYSICS TAXONOMY: A hierarchical classification of the core facts of the Current Physics Paradigm.

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FACT: A statement or an information that is objectively true and can be verified by experiment and/or observation.
PARADIGM: Interrelated concepts, thought patterns, theories, research methods, postulates, etc, that are a field of study.
CURRENT PHYSICS PARADIGM: The models and favoured methods of research, interpretation, and verification that are currently believed to provide the most likely description of the universe's properties and interactions.

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IN THE COREPHYSICS TAXONOMY:

the core of the physics factbase is divided into 14 taxons.

each taxon has properties distinct from the other taxons.

the taxons are grouped into five taxas.

each taxa has properties distinct from the other taxas.

the taxons are a progressing sequence of related transformations.

A taxonomy is a classification in which "things" are formed into groups (taxa) and types (taxons) to make their relationships clearer. Taxonomies are usually hierarchical and sometimes evolutionary.

Consider the current Physics knowledgebase [1] as a diagrammatic tree. The trunk of the tree is Core Physics.

The Core Physics Taxonomy [2] strips the theories, hypotheses, guesses, and bright ideas from the Physics knowledgebase to leave just the empirically confirmed facts. Thereafter, it defines the facts precisely and lets them find their natural order.

As things stand, much of the knowledgebase is ill-defined and not in the right order - inevitably so given that physics research is "sharp end" and thus devolutionary. Consequently the knowledgebase is beset by quasifacts [3] and logictraps [4]. Add in an acceptance of naxosnumbers [5] too high for comfort and the list of unsolved physics problems [6] is longer than it should be.

Properly taxonomising the knowledgebase almost entirely eliminates the quasifacts and logictraps. Naxosnumbers are mostly reduced to "one" with numbers higher than one clearly apparent as targets for research. Very few physics problems remain.

Is the Core Physics Taxonomy correct? Of course not. Is it complete? Of course not. It is however as correct and complete as it can be given the facts and facilities to hand.

NOTES

[1] Current Physics Knowledgebase The facts, models, theories, hypotheses, etc currently believed to be the most likely description of the Universe's objects, properties, and interactions.

[2] Core Physics Taxonomy A hierarchical taxonomy drawn from the factbase of the Current Physics Paradigm that classifies by evolutionary association.

[3] Quasifact An assumption that has become the foundation for a sequence of further assumptions and is treated as being fact in all but name. All assumptions should be regularly challenged but when doing so risks bringing down a house of cards there can be a reluctance to do so with those who do challenge being marginalised and even punished (the "emperor's new clothes syndrome").

[4] Logictrap An information spiral from which there is no apparent escape, caused by assumptions being drawn with information missing or misinterpreted. Logictraps are often mathematical (as in Zeno's Paradoxes). Logictraps are especially harmful when they become quasifacts (the "chasing rainbows syndrome").

[5] Naxos Law The increase in the likelihood of a new assumption being wrong is always greater than the increase in the naxosmumber (the number of assumptions between an assumption and the last established fact).

[6] Unsolved physics problems The list of unresolved problems in the devolutionary Current Physics Knowledgebase is long. In the evolutionary Core Physics, many of these problems do not arise while others resolve themselves as their facts are put in the right order. Here is a sample list of Taxonomy "non-problems":

The nature of energy.
The nature of dark matter.
The nature of dark energy.
The matter/antimatter imbalance.
Blackhole mechanicals.
Photon mechanicals.
Lightspeed mechanicals.
Colourshift mechanicals.
Strong force mechanicals.
Electromagnetism mechanicals.
Fusion/fission mechanicals.
Electron spin half.
Etc.