Einstein: 100 years of Relativity. Fundamental ideas for the Pharmaceutical Sciences

• Autores: Francisco González de Posada
• Localización: Anales de la Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia, ISSN-e 1697-4298, ISSN 0034-0618, Nº. 4 1, 2006, págs. 49-67
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The starting point is a reiterated reflection about the Pharmaceutical Sciences whose contents are made specific by the expression «Pharmacy: from Physics to Biology», a spectrum wich covers almost all range of the basic natural sciences. Thus, Physics is a basis for Pharmacy as it is for all the sciences, and one part of Physics constitutes the content of the Pharmaceutical Sciences. In this disciplinary context, and with the commemoration of the International Year of Physics, the following question is answered: does Relativity have a contribution to make in the field of the pharmaceutical sciences? The intellectual revolutions introduced by the Special and General Theories of Relativity are catalogued beneath the expression, open horizons, for and from Physics towards other areas of the scientific and philosophical thought. And in the light of the above-mentioned open horizons, the fundamental ideas are made specific which constitutes the basic conceptions of scientific thought with general validity for the Pharmaceutical Sciences. These ideas are designated by the terms: structure, respectivity, dynamicity and emergency. These terms are indeed Zubirian, but although they are used expressly and directly, it can be seen that their interpretations and their establishment are different. On the other hand, the following stand out: a) the applicability of the said ideas to Relativity itself, and b) the problematic nature of the notion of theory, of the background of scientific belief and of the mathematical nature of the Nature.