Come può l'universo espandersi? Le origini della cosmologia moderna alla luce delle controversie degli anni Trenta (2024)
Giovanni Macchia (Author)
Mimesis
Physical Details: 320 pp.
Language: Italian
Nel maggio e giugno 1932, in trentacinque Lettere al Direttore nel quotidiano londinese “The Times”, alcuni dei più noti fisici (James Jeans, Oliver Lodge, Herbert Dingle) si confrontarono con personalità di spicco della cultura (scrittori, politici, filosofi) per spiegare la scoperta dell’universo in espansione, da pochi mesi ratificata dai cosmologi. Nel dibattito che ne scaturì si contrapposero, da una parte, la nuova dirompente immagine scientifica e dall’altra, quella del senso comune che faticava ad accettare, dopo millenni di credenza nella staticità dei corpi celesti, come lo spazio lontano potesse curvarsi ed espandersi. Questo libro ripercorre e analizza quel dibattito epistolare, nonché gli avvenimenti scientifici e sociali che negli anni precedenti lo motivarono culturalmente (in primis l’affermarsi delle teorie di Einstein), cercando di ricreare lo spirito di quell’epoca avvincente che vide, grazie al desiderio di conoscenza di una piccola audace comunità di studiosi, l’estendersi della forza del pensiero razionale ai confini dell’universo. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… In May and June 1932, in thirty-five Letters to the Editor in the London newspaper "The Times", some of the most famous physicists (James Jeans, Oliver Lodge, Herbert Dingle) confronted prominent cultural figures (writers, politicians, philosophers) to explain the discovery of the expanding universe, ratified by cosmologists a few months ago. In the resulting debate, on the one hand, the new disruptive scientific image was opposed, and on the other, that of common sense which struggled to accept, after millennia of belief in the static nature of celestial bodies, how distant space could curve and expand. This book retraces and analyzes that epistolary debate, as well as the scientific and social events that motivated it culturally in previous years (primarily the affirmation of Einstein's theories), trying to recreate the spirit of that compelling era that saw, thanks to the desire of knowledge of a small bold community of scholars, the extension of the power of rational thought to the edges of the universe.]
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