Cosmology of Democritus and Modern Physics, The
Original title: Δημόκριτος και Σύγχρονη Κοσμολογία
Duration: 30’
Producer: The Art Factory AE
Director: Kostas Haralabous
Participant: Dr E. Danezis, Dr E. Theodosiou
Company: THE ART FACTORY AE
Scientific field: Astronomy
Year: 2006/07
Country: Greece
Today, everyone considers Democritus along with Leucippus as the fathers of the Atomic Theory, but very few people know that the two atomic philosophers are the forefathers of a cosmological proposition, which has not been analyzed in depth, as it should, nor it has been placed under the judgment of the modern scientific knowledge, as it happened in the case of their views about atoms.
This cosmological proposition is similar to the Inflection Cosmology (A. Guth) and forecasts the existence of many Cosmos, like blobs (Blobs Universe), that construct the whole Universe.
Cosmology of Democritus and Modern Physics, The
