Wieczność a Wszechświat

Fr. Paweł TAMBOR

Wydział Nauk o Zdrowiu, Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego, ul. Smuglewicza 34, 25-460 Kielce, Poland , Polska

Abstrakt

In the article the problem of a possible eternal Universe is presented. The conceptual framework for the discussion consists of three areas: the history of
astronomy and cosmology, modern cosmology and the philosophy of science
(cosmology). The historical part is to show that the problem of the Universe
either having a beginning or existing forever was always one of the most basic
questions in cosmology. Nowadays, there are different candidate theoretical
proposals for both scenarios.
In the paper, the basic conceptual framework of General Relativity was presented so as to express the total age of the Universe in terms of Hubble’s function and the deceleration parameter.
The main goal of the article is to argue that the problem of the age of the
Universe (its finite or infinite evolution) has not been sufficiently established
within science until the times of Einstein, Friedman and Hubble. It is also very
interesting to elaborate on how cosmology and philosophy coexist with each
other. The notions of time, cosmic evolution, and a possible absolute beginning
of the Universe were discussed with respect to the problem of the conceptual
demarcation of science from philosophy.

Słowa kluczowe:

cosmology, age of the Universe, philosophy of cosmology, time