Saturday, March 17, 2018
Eternal China for everyone
Fully Common Cosmology
For Humanity
LAIRD SCRANTON — CHINA’S COSMOLOGICAL PREHISTORY — 2014
First
of all, we have to define what cosmology is and there is a lot of debate about
it. Here is the introduction to the long article published in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on
“Philosophy of Cosmology,” First published on Tuesday, September
26, 2017:
“Cosmology
(the study of the physical universe) is a science that, due to both theoretical
and observational developments, has made enormous strides in the past 100
years. It began as a branch of theoretical physics through Einstein’s 1917
static model of the universe (Einstein 1917) and was developed in its early
days particularly through the work of Lemaître (1927).[1] As recently as 1960, cosmology was widely regarded as a branch
of philosophy. It has transitioned to an extremely active area of mainstream
physics and astronomy, particularly due to the application to the early
universe of atomic and nuclear physics, on the one hand, and to a flood of data
coming in from telescopes operating across the entire electromagnetic spectrum
on the other. […]
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 1:53 PM 
