Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993amjph..61...66g&link_type=abstract
American Journal of Physics, Volume 61, Issue 1, pp. 66-73 (1993).
Physics
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Cosmology, Philosophy Of Science
Scientific paper
Philosophical considerations sometimes direct developments in physics. Such influence most frequently operates during the genesis of new fields. The birth of modern cosmology provides clear evidence of the interaction between philosophical issues and the shape and direction of a new physical discipline. Philosophical controversy between E. A. Milne and other astrophysicists, including A. S. Eddington, James Jeans, and H. P. Robertson, directly affected the models, methods, and very nature of cosmological science for future generations. Today's standard space-time metric, for example, resulted from responses by Robertson and A. G. Walker to philosophical challenges presented in Milne's proposals to scrap the very idea of expanding ``space.'' Analysis of published works, unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, and personal interviews illustrates the role philosophical considerations played in development of this new field in physics.
Gale George
Urani John
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