Theories

Frameworks for how the universe fits together, each tracked with its standing — accepted, superseded, speculative, or disproved — and with the mathematics it rests on. Read it by standing, or switch to chronological order and watch the picture of the physical world get assembled from Ptolemy onward.

From the Theories and Researchers databases in Notion. Superseded is not the same as disproved: Newtonian mechanics still builds bridges, while the luminiferous aether was looked for and found absent. Entries without a status are shown unlabeled.