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AGPhil: Arbeitsgruppe Philosophie der Physik

AGPhil 6: History and Philosophy of Astroparticle Physics

AGPhil 6.4: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 12, 2009, 15:45–16:15, M014

Unification in astroparticle physics — •Wolfgang Rhode¹ and Brigitte Falkenburg² — ¹TU Dortmund, Fakultät 2, Experimentelle Physik Vb, 44221 Dortmund — ²TU Dortmund, Fakultät 14, Institut für Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft, 44221 Dortmund

Astroparticle physics makes the bridge between the domains of several physical theories that lack theoretical unification. The models and experiments of astroparticle physics are based on the standard model of particle physics and the standard model of cosmology. The theoretical foundations of these two standard models, namely quantum field theory and general relativty, are incompatible. In addition, models from other parts of physics are employed, i.e., nuclear physics. We will give a few examples of modelling in astroparticle physics and discuss the way in which they are able to unify the small scale and the large scale of physics.

Literature: B.Falkenburg und W.Rhode: Astroteilchenphysik: Die Brücke zwischen Mikro- und Makrokosmos (mit W.Rhode). In: B.Falkenburg (Hrsg.), Natur – Kultur – Technik. Paderborn: Mentis 2007.