Luigi Fantappiè

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Luigi Fantappiè (15 September 1901-28 July 1956) was an Italian mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, where he was a student and follower of Vito Volterra. Later in life he proposed scientific theories of sweeping scope.

He was born in Viterbo, and studied at the University of Pisa, graduating in mathematics in 1922. After time spent abroad, he was offered a chair by the University of Florence in 1926, and a year later by the University of Palermo. He spent the years 1934 to 1939 in Sao Paolo, Brazil. In 1939 he was offered a chair at the University of Rome

In 1942 he put forth a unified theory of physics and biology, and the syntropy concept. In 1952 he started to work on a unified physical theory, for which special relativity was a limiting case.

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[edit] The Unified Theory of the Physical and Biological World

For more details on this topic, see retrocausality.

In 1942 Fantappiè noted that the mathematical properties of those phenomena which are determined by past causes (causality, + E), such as the physical and chemical processes, are governed by the law of entropy, while the mathematical properties of those phenomena which are attracted towards causes located in the future (retrocausality, − E), agree with a symmetrical law which Fantappiè named syntropy.

The properties of syntropic phenomena were carefully described by Fantappiè:

  • Syntropic phenomena cannot be reproduced, since their causes are located in the future.
  • Syntropic phenomena can be influenced only indirectly, through specific entropic phenomena which interact with syntropic phenomena.
  • In nature, syntropy and entropy interact constantly.
  • Syntropic phenomena concentrate matter and energy in smaller places.
  • Syntropic phenomena exchange matter and energy. Because syntropic phenomena lead to the concentration of matter and energy, and this concentration cannot be indefinite, entropic processes are needed to compensate syntropic concentration. These processes take the form of the exchange of matter and energy with the environment.
  • In syntropic phenomena, entropy diminishes. Entropic phenomena are governed by the second law of thermodynamics according to which a system tends towards homogeneity and disorder. The inversion of the time arrow also inverts the second law of thermodynamics, such that a reduction in entropy and an increase in differentiation are observed.
  • Syntropic phenomena are the consequence of final causes, attractors, which absorb converging waves. These final causes are the cause of syntropic systems; in this way it is possible to introduce scientific finalism, where finalism means final causes.

Fantappiè immediately recognized the coincidence between the mathematical properties of syntropy and the properties of living systems.These discoveries were presented on the 30th of October 1942 at the Accademia d'Italia, in the form of volume titled “The Unified Theory of the Physical and Biological World”.

There is "an open access journal" Syntropy dedicated to the study of syntropy in the fields of psychology, sociology, economics, ecology and spirituality which can be found in English at http://www.sintropia.it/english/2006-eng-3.htm.

[edit] Fantappiè and the discovery of syntropy

I have no doubts about the date when I discovered the law of syntropy. It was in the days just before Christmas 1941, when, as a consequence of conversations with two colleagues, a physicist and a biologist, I was suddenly projected in a new panorama, which radically changed the vision of science and of the Universe which I had inherited from my teachers, and which I had always considered the strong and certain ground on which to base my scientific investigations. Suddenly I saw the possibility of interpreting a wide range of solutions (the anticipated potentials) of the wave equation which can be considered the fundamental law of the Universe. These solutions had been always rejected as “impossible”, but suddenly they appeared “possible”, and they explained a new category of phenomena which I later named “syntropic”, totally different from the entropic ones, of the mechanical, physical and chemical laws, which obey only the principle of classical causation and the law of entropy. Syntropic phenomena, which are instead represented by those strange solutions of the “anticipated potentials”, should obey two opposite principles of finality (moved by a final cause placed in the future, and not by a cause which is placed in the past): differentiation and non-causable in a laboratory. This last characteristic explained why this type of phenomena had never been reproduced in a laboratory, and its finalistic properties justified the refusal among scientists, who accepted without any doubt the assumption that finalism is a “metaphysical” principle, outside Science and Nature. This assumption obstructed the way to a calm investigation of the real existence of this second type of phenomena; an investigation which I accepted to carry out, even though I felt as if I were falling in a abyss, with incredible consequences and conclusions. It suddenly seemed as if the sky were falling apart, or at least the certainties on which mechanical science had based its assumptions. It appeared to me clear that these “syntropic”, finalistic phenomena which lead to differentiation and could not be reproduced in a laboratory, were real, and existed in nature, as I could recognize them in the living systems. The properties of this new law, opened consequences which were just incredible and which could deeply change the biological, medical, psychological, and social sciences.

[edit] See also

  • Fantappiè group
  • Fantappiè transform
  • Cauchy-Fantappiè formula

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