Cosmic conundrums

• Autores: Joseph Silk
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2959, 2014, págs. 26-27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Modern cosmology has been spectacularly successful at explaining why the universe is as it is--a geometrically flat expanding space pockmarked with stars and galaxies. But this very success means that attempts to understand its origin increasingly stray into issues beyond physics and into the realm of philosophy, for which cosmologists rarely have any formal training. Likewise, when philosophers, untrained in astrophysical subtleties, pronounce on cosmology, the cosmologists are unimpressed. Clearly both groups have much to learn from each other. Here, Silk discusses cosmic conundrums.