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SUMMARY:International Conference "The Origins and Evolution of Space-Time"
DESCRIPTION:International Conference\nThe Origins and Evolution of Space-Time\n\nIRAFS (The International Research Area on the Foundations of Sciences)\nPontifical Lateran University\nNovember 27 – 28\, 2018 \nIn the motivations for the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Rainer Weiss\, Barry C. Barish\, and Kip S. Thorne\, “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences stated: “On September 2015\, the universe’s  gravitational waves\, which were predicted by Albert  Einstein a hundred years ago\, came from a collision between black holes. It took 1.3 billion years for the waves to  arrive at the LIGO detector in the USA”. After this first observation others followed during the last years that are changing deeply our scientific cosmology\, inaugurating a new age in the so-called “cosmology of precision”. That is\, a cosmology become a “Galileian science”\, because not only based on mathematical models\, but also on precise measurements  confirming or refuting the mathematical hypotheses. \nAs the press release of Caltech announcing the Nobel Prize to its three professors stated\, “the observation of gravitational waves\, ripples in the fabric of space and time (…)\, provided astronomers with an entirely new set of tools with which to probe the cosmos. Previously\, all astronomy observations\nhave relied on light — which includes X-rays\, radio waves\, and other types of electromagnetic radiation emanating from objects in space — or on very-high-energy particles called neutrinos and cosmic rays. Now\, astronomers can learn about cosmic objects through the quivers they make in space and time”. Aim of this Conference is debating between theoretical physicists and philosophers of nature about the different aspects of the work in progress for the construction of a reliable theory of “quantum gravity”. \nThe amazing ontological and epistemological consequences of these discoveries could be indeed that the origins and the evolution of the space-time structure of our universe have ultimately a dynamic (causal) explanation… \n  \n\nConference Program – November 27-28\n\nContacts\ndamodio@pul.it – irafs@pul.it\nwww.pul.it \nIRAFS (The International Research Area on the Foundations of Sciences) was founded in 1996 at the Lateran University by Ennio De Giorgi (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa)\, Edward Nelson (University of Princeton) and Gianfranco Basti. It is devoted to promoting interdisciplinary studies and events between pure and applied mathematical sciences and philosophy\, from the standpoint of the foundational issues in both (www.irafs.org ). \nScientific Committee \nGianfranco Basti (Lateran University)\nFrancesco Guerra (La Sapienza University)\nFlavia Marcacci (Lateran University)\nSarah Jones Nelson (Princeton University)\nChristopher G. Tully (Princeton University)\nGiuseppe Vitiello (Salerno University) \nOrganizing Committee\nGianfranco Basti\nAlfonso D’Amodio\nFlavia Marcacci\nMauro Oliva\nEmanuele Sedran \nConference Venue\nPontifical Lateran University\nPiazza S. Giovanni in Laterano 4 – 00120 Vatican City \n  \n
URL:https://www.pul.it/event/international-conference-the-origins-and-evolution-of-space-time/
LOCATION:piazza San Giovanni in Laterano 4\, Roma\, Italia
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