In the framework of the project "Science is not flour", there will be a discussion on the topic: "Modern science and philosophy"

January 18 at 19:00 in the shop "Bookvoed" (Ligovsky, etc., 10)

Candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, popularizer of science, organizer of the scientific and educational project Progress School Kirill Polovnikov, curator of the Open Faculty of Philosophy project, candidate of philosophical sciences Ilya Mavrinsky, head editor of Computer and Popular Scientific Literature Yulia Sergienko, lead editor, translator Oleg Sivchenko (Peter publishing house).

The discussion is supported by examples from two books by Sean Carroll, one of the leading theoretical physicists of our time - “The Universe. The origin of life, the meaning of our existence and a huge cosmos ” and “ Eternity. In search of a definitive theory of time . ”
What is life and death, what is our place in this Universe, how does the world work on the quantum, cosmic and human levels, how are human values ​​associated with science? What is time in the modern sense and why does it have exactly such properties? Why does time always move in one direction?