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Leibniz & the Big Bang
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:21 pm
by Philosophy Now
Eric Kincanon says that Leibniz could have predicted the Big Bang in 1715.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/121/Leibniz_and_the_Big_Bang
Re: Leibniz & the Big Bang
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 11:50 pm
by PauloL
I had already commented this nice article after reading it on my hard copy.
It was on the thread "Is doing evil a necessity of life?" and so I transcribe it here.
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=21806&p=326452
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I have just read an elegant article by Eric Kincanon in
PhilosophyNow:
Leibniz & the Big Bang.
I'm happy to learn that Leibniz thought that God's creation of Universe had to follow laws (more precisely Leibniz laws) & thus conform to non-arbitrary physics. Accordingly time & space couldn't be absolute as defended by Newton, something not in accord with Leibniz laws. Time & space had to be relative, as Einstein so demonstrated 200 years later. In line with Kincanon, Leibniz could have predicted the Big Bang 200 years in advance.
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