Abstract
Rather than commenting, as such, upon the validity of whatever might be some of the current basic physical assumptions, this essay does so mainly by implication. As it proposes a set of generic assumptions that physics should be based on, given how physical reality occurs. This type of analysis is usually characterised as philosophy. But it is not, because physical reality has existence; it is not an abstract concept. It results from a discernable physical process, and that can be determined once metaphysical deliberations are eradicated. Reference to these assumptions then points to the underlying flaws in the explanation of relativity which involves the spacetime model (though the original hypothesis may be valid), and the Copenhagen interpretation. Each of these being predicated on different philosophical, rather than proven physical, presumptions as to how physical reality is constituted. Which explains why they do not, and cannot, be reconciled.
Paul Reed