Das Weltbild der modernen Physik

Abstract: Up to the beginning of our century, the basis for the physical formation of theories was the Aristotelian logic (definiteness and consistency) on the one hand and the Imitation to causal reasons (relationship cause-effect, exclusion of any finality) on the other. Physics of our century, especially quantum mechanics, has shown, that even a description of matter in space and time must go beyond this frame of thinking. The elements of matter can not be understood in the mechanistic sense, they have continuous as well as discrete properties and therefore they violate the demand on consistency in a narrower sense. Although even in modern physics predictions form the basis for the confirmation of a theory, in the mechanistic sense, these predictions are no longer possible, they rather are predictions of probability. Therefore, the concept of causality had to be redefined.When already the description of matter in space and time can no longer be understood as an "image of reality" this must especially be true for medicine, which can not limit itself to the pure physical aspects (i.e. to matter in space and time).

Keyword(s): Quantenmechanik

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