Projektnummer

0062638

Zusammenfassung

Integrated philosophy and history of physics analyses both the historical development and the conceptual structure of physics. The professorship focuses on the foundations of theories of space, time, and gravity. The most succesful theory in this domain is still Einstein's general theory of relativity (GR). However, important concepts that are now crucial for the understanding of both the theory and the universe it aims to describe have only been created in the last few decades; this applies in particular to the description of black holes and gravitational waves, which were experimentally disc...