THE PREFACE OF THE MONOGRAPH „Time in Philosophy and Science” published by Lumen Publishing House Iasi, 2017, ISBN 978-973-166-449-1, author Andreea Elena Matic THOUGHTS IN (AND ABOUT) TIME …

Abstract

The researcher Andreea Elena Matic (Mirică) proposes, through the paper Time in Philosophy and Science, a return to the debates on the implications of the time category in the approaches of history, the philosophy of science, particularly in the history of cosmology, astronomy and astrophysics, starting with cosmological myths, the beginnings of the scientific cosmology in Antiquity (Pythagoras, Aristotle, Ptolemy), passing the Modern Age with its titans (Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton), underlining the exceptional openings of the limited and generalized relativity theory discovered by Einstein's genius. The historical perspective overlaps naturally with the structural one, being also explored the subtle consequences of quantum mechanics in the research of the Universe, especially through discussions concerning early Universe models, singularity states ("Big Bang", "Big Crunch", black holes), as well as the later scenarios of its possible end, namely "the beginning" and "the end" of the Universe, as they can be glimpsed at the level of our knowledge of today.