A New Hierarchy of Sciences
Figure 1. My proposed hierarchy of sciences. The model I suggest for interpreting reality is defined by the big blocks in the centre, and the different sciences studying the elements of that model are shown in clouds bound to the elements they are studying. Only the science that is directly concerned with the study of such particular element is written. This figure is my own work (Maxandre Jacqueline), feel free to copy it as long as you put a link to this article. The new hierarchy of sciences I propose* (Fig. 1) rests on one claim: the most basic ingredient of the universe, in other words the essence of reality, is information [ 1 , 3 ]. The traditional hierarchy of sciences (Fig. 2) considers matter to be the essence of reality but some prominent theoretical quantum physicists doubt this assumption [ 1 ]. If matter is not the essence of reality then the traditional hierarchy of sciences, based on the different scales of the universe, from the femtometer to the kilo-yottameter