Aristotle’s Physics: A Physicist’s look

Carlo Rovelli (1, 2)

1 CPT - E4 Gravité quantique
2 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332

I show that Aristotelian physics is a correct approximation of Newtonian physics in its appropriate domain, in the same precise 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 theory.

Domaines: Relativité Générale et Cosmologie Quantique [gr-qc]

Carlo Rovelli. Aristotle’s Physics: A Physicist’s look. 2013. ⟨hal-00957713⟩