Materia Oscura Victoriana (Victorian Dark Matter)
domingo, 7 de junio de 2015
Materia Oscura Victoriana (Victorian Dark Matter)
Proponemos una lectura de los 'Primeros Principios' de Herbert Spencer como precursor relevante de las teorías cosmológicas contemporáneas. La teoría evolucionista de Spencer proporciona un modelo conceptual para la historización de la teoría del Universo que se ha vuelto especialmente relevante tras la aceptación de la teoría de la Gran Explosión como paradigma actual para la física. Los razonamientos de Spancer sobre la generación ordenada de la complejidad, sobre los procesos de equilibramiento parcial de fuerzas, y sobre la disolución, así como sus eflexiones sobre los límites inherentes a la observabilidad física en el marco de un paradigma científico, aunque hayan sido un tanto dejados de lado por la física del siglo XX, proporcionan sorprendentes analogías victorianas para algunos debates contemporáneos, y a la vez son contribuciones altamente relevantes para la construcción de un paradigma evolutivo generalizado para la cosmología, la física, y las ciencias naturales y humanas.
Materia Oscura Victoriana
English abstract:
Victorian Dark Matter
This paper proposes a reading of Herbert Spencer's 'First Principles' as a relevant precursor of contemporary cosmological theories. Spencer's evolutionary theory provides a conceptual model to historicize the theory of the Universe which becomes especially relevant after the acceptance of the Big Bang hypothesis as the current paradigm for physics. Spencer's reasoning on the ordered generation of complexity, on processes of partial equilibrium of forces, and of dissolution, as well as his reflections on the inherent limits of physical observation within a scientific paradigm, although somewhat disregarded by 20th century physics, are both uncanny Victorian analogues for some contemporary debates and highly relevant contributions to the construction of a generalized evolutionary paradigm for cosmology, physics, the natural sciences and the humanities.
Materia Oscura Victoriana
English abstract:
Victorian Dark Matter
This paper proposes a reading of Herbert Spencer's 'First Principles' as a relevant precursor of contemporary cosmological theories. Spencer's evolutionary theory provides a conceptual model to historicize the theory of the Universe which becomes especially relevant after the acceptance of the Big Bang hypothesis as the current paradigm for physics. Spencer's reasoning on the ordered generation of complexity, on processes of partial equilibrium of forces, and of dissolution, as well as his reflections on the inherent limits of physical observation within a scientific paradigm, although somewhat disregarded by 20th century physics, are both uncanny Victorian analogues for some contemporary debates and highly relevant contributions to the construction of a generalized evolutionary paradigm for cosmology, physics, the natural sciences and the humanities.
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