Abstract
In 1623 Galileo Galilei expressed his conviction that the universe was governed by a mathematical order, written in a language whose characters were “triangles, circles and other geometrical figures”: without such instruments it would be impossible to understand the meaning of cosmic evolution, and one would risk being lost in a dark maze [1]. The holistic theory of limits takes up that argument, and proves that Galileo’s intuitive perception (underestimated for four centuries) contains all the information governing the origin of matter and the interaction of gravity therewith, on whatever scale of magnitude. The basic assumption of present scientific knowledge, in fact, comprises the erroneous belief that the sexagesimal system of measurement (which divides the circumference of the circle into 360 degrees) is a mere convention, extraneous to the laws of nature, whereas, on the contrary, it can be shown that this system is correlated with the universal geometrical order described by the Golden Section. In 1913 the scientific community attempted to extend the validity of the Bohr model to all the elements of the Periodic Table, hoping to draw information about the origin of matter, but the attempt failed: the holistic theory of limits, restating Galileo’s perception (now applied to the Bohr atom), reconstructs the matrix of matter within which cosmic evolution begins to take shape. This matrix is a virtual quantum configuration of energy containment (of ideally spherical symmetry), capable of drawing radial energy from the cosmos and of converting it into the corresponding mass.
Ugo Fabbri