Speaker
Silvia De Bianchi
(University of Milan)
Description
In this contribution I describe the fundamental tension that characterized Western culture in representing time as being fundamental and emergent, especially in fundamental physics and cosmology. I shall discuss the reasons of the persistence of this tension in current physics and then show why in what appears to be a conflict without resolution there is also a stimulating tool for research.
Author
Silvia De Bianchi
(University of Milan)