Jocelyne Zofia Bisagny

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There are many puzzles which need solutions.

More precisely, many observations require explanations and many predictions need confirmation of the most general intriguing issues we do not fully understand yet are:

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• Why entropy (the "measure of disorder" in short), why does it increase over time? Why does it define a fundamental law (known as the second law of thermodynamics) which cannot be violated? Why does it define the direction of time? 

• How can we understand entropy and time better, and solve paradoxes like black holes seemingly escaping heat death? And here Susskind's proposed second law of quantum complexity comes in.

• It's here when I discovered my interest in chaos theory and

  the ergodic hierarchy

• But what how could I better understand the nature of space-time?

• How was all this assembled? What happened exactly at the beginning of the Universe and what is the reason behind the current accelerated expansion of our Universe?

• What makes the Universe accelerate? Is it dark energy? What is that exactly, 'cause it's neither dark nor really much of energy...What's the physics we need to understand?

• What is the nature of matter?  The theory of the Standard Model explains only part of it. How can we find the missing part? 

• What exactly is gravity? Why is it different from the other fundamental interactions? Is it made of gravitons? Are there hidden dimensions to explain them? Why haven't we "seen" them yet? Do these hidden dimensions make even physically sense to explain the nature of of reality?

• Is it quantum gravity we need to look for? Or should we rather look for gravity within the quantum mechanics? Quantum theory is a more fundamental theory than general relativity. 

• We're failing, in fact, at quantising gravity. What about gravitising quantum mechanics? 

• Will string theory ever be confirmed?

• String Theory is no more than a framework, not a theory, at its current state (s. Ed Witten's own statement on this).

• String theory does not provide any solution to the measurement problem in quantum mechancs, more than redundancy in "hidden" dimensions. Shall we keep using it as our natural framework and explore the solution to the quantum measurement problem moving to a different framework altogether?

• Is there matter we cannot observe which we call dark matter?

• Baryon asymmetry problem: Why is there more matter than antimatter? What happened to antimatter? 

• What is the actual quantum mechanical framework? Is wave-function collapse a physical phenomenon? 

• What is consciousness? I posit, along with Sir Roger Penrose, that whatever it is, it is non-computational. 

• Perhaps quantum wavefunction collapse could explain part of how it works?

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amongst others. These are some of the open problems which researchers have been trying to work out. Doing research in theoretical physics is a good starting point to approach these topics.

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