量子(Quantum)와 기(氣) 개념의 相同⋅相異에 관한 試論的 접근 -東과 西⋅과학과 철학, 학문융합의 입장에서-

Abstract

Oriental philosophy and modern physics have interrelationship in the world view. In the meantime, quantum physics is newly meeting with the themes of Oriental metaphysics. In this case, the most appropriate concept for contrasting with both is Ki(氣) in the Oriental Cosmic-Dynamics(易學). In both material and metaphysical terms, this is because it has a similar meaning than anything else. Whether it is both quantum or Ki, the substantive truth is still not clear. It is an academic clash between the side of seeing both as microparticles and the group that sees them as strings. The key to understanding of the quantum is that it has a constant physical quantity, such as spin or vector, even if it is unidentifiablely small. Physicists who speak of point particles value demonstrations and experimental possibilities based on standard models, and give clues that science and physics must be realistically verified. Here appears the superstring theory from the concept of string. However, superstring is not an observation or experimentally verified fact, but is only predicted through the reasoning of mathematics and theoretical physics. The heart of the oriental worldview is the movement change of the 陰 (Eum) & 陽(Yang). Like the mutual movement of electromagnetic and photon, they shake and move in search of each other's mates. But quantum or Ki, both are still unclear and still invisible. Modern physics asks philosophy and religion. In this situation, what can philosophical worldview and metaphysics tell? The fact that you can not see does not mean that there is no principle of the world. In this case, finding the principle of world understanding based on the existence of an invisible being may be the same task. In other means, if mathematics is the language of Western physics, letters and languages will become oriental mathematics.