Gravitacija u Boškovića

U Teoriji prirodne filozofije Ruđera Boškovića, dinamika materije opisana je krivuljom sila, privlačnih ili odbojnih – ovisno o udaljenostima centara sila. Na velikim udaljenostima krivulja sila manifestira se slično Newtonovoj gravitaciji. Gravitacija je integrativna za vidljivi svemir, ali ne i za hipotetičko mnoštvo svemira za koje je moguće da paralelno postoje razdvojeni odbojnom silom, što je usporedivo sa suvremenim konceptom tamne energije. U konceptu kontinuiranih sila u diskontinuiranoj materiji, Faraday prepoznaje ideju o dinamičkom elektromagnetskom polju, koju je dovršio Maxwell, a kasnije Einstein predviđa postojanje gravitacijskih valova, nedavno i detektiranih (2015. – 2017., project LIGO). Valna priroda materije realnog prostor-vremena nalazi se u Boškovićevu modelu na maloj skali krivulje sila, a atomsko-korpuskularna dinamika klasične mehanike na velikoj skali.
In Roger Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy, the dynamics of matter is described by the curve of forces, either attractive or repulsive – depending on the distances of the centres of forces. At great distances, the curve of forces is manifested similar to Newton’s gravitation. The gravitation is integrative for the visible universe, but not for the hypothetical multitude of universes that possibly parallelly exist separated by a repulsive force, comparable to the contemporary concept of the dark energy. In the concept of continuous forces in a discontinuous matter, Faraday recognises the idea of a dynamic electromagnetic field, completed by Maxwell, while Einstein later predicted the existence of gravitational waves recently detected (2015 – 2017, LIGO project). The wave-nature of real space-time matter is found in Boscovich’s model at the small scale of the curve of forces, while the atomic-corpuscular dynamics of classical mechanics is found at the large scale.