12 December 2023
Enrico Fermi Study and Research Center
Europe/Rome timezone

Paradoxes and metaphors of time in between physics and philosophy

12 Dec 2023, 17:00
30m
Aula Fermi (Enrico Fermi Study and Research Center)

Aula Fermi

Enrico Fermi Study and Research Center

Piazza del Viminale, 1 - 00184 Roma

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.

Primary author

Silvia De Bianchi (University of Milan)

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