Natural Philosophy and Natural Science: Tangent and Emergence — between Conflicting Poles in the Interdisciplinary Discourse ; A Dialogue on the Epistemology of Quantum Physics

Herbert Pietschmann, Hisaki Hashi

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Abstract

Since the 20th century the quantum physics has shown various phenomena, judged as “seldom and not easily understandable” by the theories of classic physics. From the beginning of the “Kopenhagener Deutung,” Einstein claimed against Heisenberg, Bohr, etc. that the particle physics lacks “physical reality.” A number of physicists have tried to clarify the labyrinth of particle as a minimal substance in the phenomena of the micro world. The entanglement of the “double particle” emitted from a π-meson in its teleportation is one of those phenomena. However, a successful new thesis has also become a target for the antithesis by deputies. Even if the “uncertainty” of an emitted light quantum that is received by the detector “either as a particle or as wave” has been reduced in our time by using probability calculations and new experimental physical facilities, the principal character of particles based on the “uncertainty relation” has not been changed. Although Heisenberg’s formula of the uncertainty relation could be “renewed” by completing certain operational components substituted by some physi-cists, the fundamental reality of phenomena of particle physics remain: The “physical reality” manifested by Einstein based on his glorious success of the Special and Gen-eral Theory of Relativity cannot be valid in the micro-world phenomena.
Pietschmann, a well-known theoretical physicist in Vienna, and Hashi, a philoso-pher teaching and researching interdisciplinary philosophy in Vienna, highlight the essential problems of particle physics and clarify them in regards to ontological and epistemological aspects. The dialogue has its origin in the hypothesis that the particle physics needs a logical interpretation with completely new ontological principles. In addition, the fundamental ontology of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy (without mys-tics) and its further development to rational philosophy of East Asia has various indi-cations and contributions for an ontological epistemology of particle physics.
Keywords: Ontological epistemology of particle physics, Einstein, Heisenberg, Ar-istotle’s fundamental ontology, Nāgārjuna’s ontological principle (Mahayana Buddhist philosophy), Nishida, Yukawa.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)177-200
Seitenumfang24
FachzeitschriftDialogue and Universalism
Jahrgang28
Ausgabenummer2/2018
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Juli 2018

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