Chapters authored
Some Considerations on the Lessons Learnt from the Cavalcade of Changes in Physics’ Models
This paper presents an attempt to explain and to make predictions on the change process in the physics’ models. One important goal of the search for such an attempt is to develop an approach that is able to have a certain degree of predictability of at least the direction in which the models will change, assuming that in general it is possible to have an answer to the question, whether this change process has a certain rhythmicity and follows some patterns, or it is a totally chaotic one. The paradigmatic approach of Kuhn on changes in science was one of the starting points for this search, and the use of topological aspects to describe models in physics was a starting point of the search for the approach. By using notions of categories and of syzygies from mathematics, a new approach is proposed to evaluate the direction of changes in science and technology, with an example from the nuclear physics and technology.
Part of the book: Proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies (ICIS 2016)