El pozo aristotélico
[Hoy voy a tratar ciertas reflexiones suscitadas por el artículo más relevante que he leído este verano.]
La física aristotélica tiene mala prensa. Sin embargo, Carlo Rovelli, en _Aristotle’s Physics: a Physicist’s Look _ofrece una visión alternativa y más optimista de la generalizada, que resume así:
I show that Aristotelian physics is a correct and non-intuitive approximation of Newtonian physics in the suitable domain (motion in fluids), in the same technical sense in which Newton theory is an approximation of Einstein’s theory. Aristotelian physics lasted long not because it became dogma, but because it is a very good empirically grounded theory. The observation suggests some general considerations on inter-theoretical relations.