Cykliczny obraz świata we współczesnej kosmologii. Próba filozoficznej oceny modelu ekpyrotycznego Steinhardta i Turoka

• Authors: Luty, Damian

Title variants

EN

Cyclic world-picture in contemporary cosmology. A philosophical evaluation of Steinhardt’s and Turok’s Ekpyrotic Model

Abstracts

EN

I present a brief history of cosmology, where I point at a certain class of cosmological models in which the Universe is conceived as an endless cycle of phases evolving in a specific way. Here I state an analogy with the discussion about the status, or rather: the “topology”, of time – is it linear or does it have the structure of a cycle? This leads me to bring up one of the newest concepts in cyclic cosmology – the Ekpyrotic Model. After reconstructing the model and giving a summary of the scenario of how the Universe develops in the Ekpyrotic model, I attempt to criticise it from a philosophical perspective. I make several claims regarding some epistemological and methodological issues. In connection with the Ekpyrotic Model, I discuss problems with underdetermination, theory choice and mathematical simplicity.

Keywords

EN

scientific world-views; cosmology; Ekpyrotic model; cyclic and linear time; linearny

PL

naukowe obrazy świata; kosmologia; model ekpyrotyczny; czas cykliczny i linearny

• Publisher: Bialystok University Press
• Journal: IDEA. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 28/1
• Pages: 88-104

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Luty, Damian

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5508

DOI

10.15290/idea.2016.28.1.05