Classical Paradigm in Physics on the Cusp of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Authors

  • Oleg E. Baksansky Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
  • Andrei V. Korzhuev The State Education Institution of Higher Professional Training The First Sechenov Moscow State Medical University under Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Russian Federation

Keywords:

crisis of the classical paradigm in physics; scientific revolution; methodological reflection on the crises of natural science; scientific paradigm; paradigm shifts in natural science; complementarity principle; change of paradigm and anomaly (T. Kuhn).

Abstract

This article attempts to examine the crisis of physics on the cusp of the 19th and 20th centuries within the context of ideas put forward and substantiated in a book by the philosopher T. Kuhn entitled “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. The focus is on the crisis of Newton's classical mechanics and the “birth” of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, the Rutherford-Bohr model of the atom, and quantum mechanics which has developed it logically.

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Published

31-03-2015

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2015)

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