What is a macrocosm

What is a macrocosm

The macrocosm is the world of big objects which is in an interval between the megaworld and a microcosm. All material objects which are located in it on scales can be commensurable with human parameters and the person. Therefore practically the macrocosm can be presented by macrobodies: person, products of his activity, living organisms, substances which are in various states and macromolecules.

The huge contribution to area of a research of a macrocosm was created by philosophers. Still when the science did not find especially rapid development, there was a number of ideas of the organization of the matter. The natural phenomena which managed to be observed, explained, making a start from the speculative principles of philosophy. At the same time researches of experimental character at first completely were absent. The scientific view on studying a macrocosm began to be formed in the 16th century by various scientists of natural sciences. Then Galileo Galilei managed to prove the system of a geleocentrika offered by Nicolaus Copernicus. Besides, he opened the law according to which inertia is traced and could develop a way of other description of the world - allocation of certain characteristics of the objects subject to researches which had the geometrical and physical background. So was the mechanical picture of the world, that is its basis is put. Relying on its works, Newton created the theory of mechanics. With its help described identical trends of celestial bodies and objects of Earth - their movement. Besides, the corpuscular model of reality which is not beyond the picture of the world corresponding to laws of such sphere of science as mechanics was developed. Existence of matter was considered as availability of material concrete substance which consists of a number of particles - atoms and corpuscles. Time was represented as the parameter which is absolutely independent of matter and space. Such factor as the movement, was presented as movement something in a certain space. At the same time it has to correspond to all known laws of mechanics and be carried out on trajectories which are continuous. Besides, H. Huygens created the concrete wave concept which application gave the chance to establish analogy between distribution of waves and light in air and water. Then considered that light spreads in such substance as air. The main argument of Huygens was that statement that 2 light beams can pass through each other and at the same time not dissipate. Grimaldi managed to eliminate a number of contradictions of the theory of waves. He proved such phenomenon as diffraction. The concept of waves was confirmed by opening of an interference – the phenomena at which light waves which are located in an antiphase can extinguish each other. M. Faraday and J Maxwell conducted a number of experiments and theoretical works which indicated insufficient adequacy of mechanistic model of the world in the sphere of the phenomena of electromagnetic character. M. Faraday managed to prove a concept of lines of force as the factor meaning the direction of action of electric forces within magnetic field. J. Maxwell worked out such equations which visually described the colleague's conclusions about electricity and magnetism. Later he generalized laws of the electromagnetic phenomena and created the system of certain differential equations. With their help there was an opportunity to describe the electromagnetic field. Besides, Maxwell could calculate the speed of distribution of the electromagnetic field. It was equal to the speed of light. After that he drew a conclusion that waves of light belong to the category of electromagnetic waves, as conceived confirmation in 1888 with the assistance of G. Gerts. After the experiments of the above-stated physicist in science the concept of the field found the status of physically real factor. So, at the end of the nineteenth century of the physicist proved the fact that matter can exist in several types - in the form of the continuous field and in the form of discrete substance. Thanks to opening of scientists, it is possible to claim that the macrocosm is one of three types of matter, consisting of big bodies. It is the whole world which surrounds each person in everyday life. Laws of a macrocosm unlike the megaworld and a microcosm can be observed with the naked eye. There are distances which are defined by kilometers, meters, centimeters and millimeters. And there is also time – years, months, hours, minutes and seconds.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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