Varying Constants and Fundamental Cosmology – VARCOSMOFUN’16

Plato and Modern Physics

17 Sept 2016, 09:30

1h

Room 7 (Maritime University of Szczecin Campus, Szczerbcowa 4)

plenary [Phil] Philosophy and cutting edge of physics and cosmology

Speaker

Krzysztof Meissner (Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw)

Description

The talk is devoted to the discussion why modern fundamental physics is closer to the objective idealism of Plato than to the Aristotelian empiricism, after more than 2 thousand years of the domination of the latter in classical physics.