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Tributsch derives the previously empirical energy laws for the first time and explains why this is possible in a fictional conversation!
What is energy? A question that seems trivial at first glance. But although everyone uses energy in their everyday lives, whether in the form of electricity, petrol or gas, physics has so far been unable to explain what energy actually is. A groundbreaking discovery by scientist Prof. Helmut Tributsch could now revolutionise important fundamentals of physics.
The unsolved question of physics
For two centuries, physicists have taught that energy is conserved and can never be lost. But Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner and author of the famous Feynman Lectures on Physics, stated: ‘In physics, as we understand it today, we have no knowledge of what energy actually is. It is an abstract thing…’ Despite the development of precise formulas to describe energy, its true nature remained an unsolved mystery.
Breakthrough: Energy as an information system
Helmut Tributsch, a renowned scientist in the field of materials and energy research, has now found a fundamental explanation for energy, or more precisely, derived it mathematically. The surprising finding: energy is an information system. Similar to money (as proven by cryptocurrencies and credit cards), with which energy has often been compared, the value of energy is based on the underlying information. When people buy energy, they are not purchasing a physical substance, but rather usable information that powers machines.
‘The abstract nature of energy turns out to be a highly organised information system that functions according to well-defined rules’ explains Tributsch.
Time orientation as the key to energy
The major obstacle to understanding the laws of energy has been the definition of time in physics. Since Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687, science has operated with a clock that only passively registers time but has no effect. However, as Tributsch demonstrates, energy is inextricably linked to natural time, which is created by the flow of energy from the sun and actively brings about changes that allow us to understand nature as fundamentally directed.
‘Today’s physics regards time as an illusion, but speaks of clock time – yet it is flowing, effect-producing natural time that explains energy behaviour and makes the laws of thermodynamics understandable’ Tributsch continues.
Significance for science and society
The new findings have far-reaching consequences for our understanding of nature, the universe and industrial civilisation. The energy laws derived by Tributsch not only confirm classical thermodynamics, but also provide, for the first time, a fundamental explanation for energy conservation, the increase in entropy and the law of entropy, which govern complex mechanisms and evolution.
‘By understanding energy as an information system that triggers natural time, completely new possibilities for research are opening up – from efficient energy use to a better explanation of the universal laws of nature and the fate of the universe’ emphasises the scientist.
This discovery could open a new chapter in physics. It shows that energy is much more than just a neutral quantity in formulas – it is a dynamic information system that drives the time we experience and thus our world. Humans, with their energy metabolism, are part of this natural time; it is inherent to them, as the ancient Romans already recognised.
Prof. Helmut Tributsch has compiled his findings in a scientific publication, which also traces his mathematical derivation of the laws of energy:
Thermodynamic Energy-Laws Presuppose Time Orientation Subject to Principle of Least Action
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=140853