Luigi Fantappiè and the law of Syntropy

Luigi Fantappiè was born in Viterbo in 1901, studied at the “Università Normale” di Pisa, where he was a close friend with Enrico Fermi, and became a full professor at 25 years; in 1955 Openheimer offered him a seat at Princeton, but he could not accept because of his health conditions. He died in 1956.

As a mathematician he believed that mathematical solutions need to be considered as possible. For this reason he could not accept the fact that in physics the negative solution of the d’Alambert operator and of the Klein-Gordon equation (which unite special relativity with the Shrödinger wave equation) had been refused as impossible. Working on these equations he found out that while the positive solution is governed by the law of entropy which moves forward in time the negative solution is governed by a symmetrical law which he named syntropy.

The enlargement of science to syntropy implies a deep cultural change which Fantappiè describes in the following way: “I have no doubts about the date when I discovered the law of syntropy. It was in the days just before Christmas 1941, when, as a consequence of conversations with two colleagues, a physicist and a biologist, I was suddenly projected in a new panorama, which radically changed the vision of science and of the Universe which I had inherited from my teachers, and which I had always considered the strong and certain ground on which to base my scientific investigations. Suddenly I saw the possibility of interpreting a wide range of solutions (the anticipated potentials) of the wave equation which can be considered the fundamental law of the Universe. These solutions had been always rejected as “impossible”, but suddenly they appeared “possible”, and they explained a new category of phenomena which I later named “syntropic”, totally different from the entropic ones, of the mechanical, physical and chemical laws, which obey only the principle of classical causation and the law of entropy. Syntropic phenomena, which are instead represented by those strange solutions of the “anticipated potentials”, should obey two opposite principles of finality (moved by a final cause placed in the future, and not by a cause which is placed in the past): differentiation and non-causable in a laboratory. This last characteristic explained why this type of phenomena had never been reproduced in a laboratory, and its finalistic properties justified the refusal among scientists, who accepted without any doubt the assumption that finalism is a “metaphysical” principle, outside Science and Nature. This assumption obstructed the way to a calm investigation of the real existence of this second type of phenomena; an investigation which I accepted to carry out, even though I felt as if I were falling in a abyss, with incredible consequences and conclusions. It suddenly seemed as if the sky were falling apart, or at least the certainties on which mechanical science had based its assumptions. It appeared to me clear that these “syntropic”, finalistic phenomena which lead to differentiation and could not be reproduced in a laboratory, were real, and existed in nature, as I could recognize them in the living systems. The properties of this new law, opened consequences which were just incredible and which could deeply change the biological, medical, psychological, and social sciences.”

His genius enlightened the supernatural reality of the world.