HAPP One-Day Conference on: Physics Feuds Throughout History

Event date
Event time
10:30 - 17:00
Venue
Mathematical Institute
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Event type
Conferences
Event cost
FREE
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Required

In the progression of physics, most facts and laws have been established only after decades, often centuries, of discussion and dispute. This conference will review some of the great disputes stretching from antiquity to the modern day. From the classical Greek discussions on the nature of space and matter, through the founding disputes of modern science and its mathematics (led by Newton's disputes with contemporaries) up to the recent controversies in quantum mechanics and cosmology, the feuds between leading thinkers and their vital role in establishing successive views of our physical world will be examined.

Registration to attend this conference is free but booking is required to attend the conference at: https://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/event/physics-feuds-throughout-history