J. Jeans’ idealism about space and its influences on E.A. Milne at the dawn of modern cosmology |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Automation, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, PR China;2. EXQUISITUS, Centre for E-City, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore;3. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Singapore;1. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;2. Toronto Rehabilitation Institute - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada;3. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;4. Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto, Canada;5. Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada;6. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, China;7. National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Shenzhen, China;8. Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen, China |
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| Abstract: | This paper deals with two important English scientists of the first half of the twentieth century: Edward Arthur Milne and James Hopwood Jeans. It examines the philosophical reasons that, in 1932, induced Milne to devote himself to the newborn modern cosmology. Among those reasons, it is argued that the most important ones were some of Jeans’ philosophical statements regarding the new relativistic view of the expanding universe. In particular, Milne reacted to some confusing idealist opinions expressed by Jeans in the London newspaper The Times, in May 1932, in a debate on the expansion of the universe. Actually, as it will be shown, Jeans received many criticisms about the philosophical reasonings present in all of his popularizing works. |
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| Keywords: | Jeans Milne Cosmology Space Idealism The Times |
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