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On the Epistemological Status of Cosmology Anthropic Principle, Cosmological Numbers, and the Subject of Cosmology
Author(s) -
Wahsner Renate
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
annalen der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1521-3889
pISSN - 0003-3804
DOI - 10.1002/andp.19895010608
Subject(s) - anthropic principle , cosmology , copernican principle , harmony (color) , theoretical physics , cosmological principle , epistemology , subject (documents) , physics , physical law , natural (archaeology) , philosophy , physical cosmology , dark energy , quantum mechanics , computer science , history , library science , optics , archaeology
Abstract It is shown that cosmology destroys the fundamental on which it lies as a natural‐scientific discipline if it introduces subjectivistic principles as one of them is the so‐called Anthropic Principle that superseds the Copernican turn of sciences. Likewise conceptions are proved as conceptions that contradict the physical cosmology which conceive that the “World harmony” or the physical‐uniform grasping of the world can be derived from numbers or relations of numbers. This is due to the fact that these conceptions liquadate the advantage of physics to get via measurements statements about reality.