Творчество и развитие общества в XXI веке: взгляд науки, философии и богословия

Nikitin Vladimir A., Contribution of JINR to Science of the Matter Structure.

Joint institute for nuclear researches is a versatile scientific organization. The physics of elementary particles as the most fundamental direction of nature cognition makes the basic part of JINR research program. Research tools are accelerators which operate in an energy range of electrons, protons and nuclei ~ 1 MeV– 10 GeV. The wide program of fundamental and applied works is carried out on accelerators. In particular, the medical laboratory for radiation therapy of cancer diseases operates in JINR. The discovery of transuranium elements Dubnium-105 and Flerovi-um-114 is registered. Creation of a collider of protons and nuclei with energy of the intersecting beams 10 GeV is performed. The reactor creating the number of neutron beams for fundamental and applied works operates. JINR scientists are awarded the Nobel Prize and 13 state awards that testify the wide social recognition of Institute achievements. The aim of science is to obtain knowledge of the Universe as a whole, about its remote corners and about the smallest fundamental particles of substance.

The scientific picture of the world becomes a part of the general outlook. Physics’ achievements enter into practice and define the character of civilization. Riddles and complexities, which scientists and theologians encounter, are rather similar. This opens up possibility and the necessity of dialogue between science and theology.

Keywords: particle physics, hadrons, leptons, quarks, accelerators, instruments for research, fundamental and applied research, science and theology dialogue.

Osipov Aleksey I., On the Goal of Creative Activity

The paper regards the aims of creative activity in relation to the life meaning values. There is a real threat of dehumanization of man, a thereat to his moral and spiritual degradation against the background of continued technical and technological progress. Focusing creative and general human activities predominantly on the increase of material welfare and comfort without due attention to spiritual improvement represents a threat of self-destruction of humanity which had been modelled experimentally in the “Universe 25” project.

Keywords: mechanization of consciousness, spiritual freedom, freedom of creativity, morals, passions, sin, deification, meaning of life, morality, spiritual upbringing of personality.

Pavlenko Andrey N., The Creativity and “Kreatisms”

In this paper historical, linguistic and conceptual backgrounds of “the creativity” and its otherness to the phenomenon of “the origination” are considered. It is pointed out that the cause of the modern demand for “the creativity” represents the domination of technical relationship of the Human being to the world. “The Imitation of Nature” (organic-projection) gives a way to “Redesigning of Nature” on the patterns of the “creative activism”. It is shown that on the basis of “creativity” lies the Judeo-Chris-tian model “Creation” of the world from “nothing” (creatio ex nihilo), while the phenomenon of “the origination” is based on a genetic model, in which the main mechanism is the “procreation’ from the already existed base. It is shown that the “creative activist”, depending on the tasks standing before it, appears as a “simulator”, “innovator” and “profanator”. The author reveales three absurdities (“kreatisms”), resulting in the reduction of “creativity” to “origination”.

Keywords: creativity, kreatism, creative activism, origination, Plato, heterological, autological, simulator, innovator, profanator.

Pavlenko Andrey N., The Constriction of Modern Theory in Physics and Cosmology and its Specifics

The article analyzes the current relationship between “theory” and “experience”. It is shown that in the modern physical and cosmological knowledge such notion as “theory” is no longer a simple generalization of the “experience”. It will demand rethinking of such notion as “the existence of objects”. That strategy of positivism, which involves a strong relationship between the physical observability (O) and physical existence (Е) ∀x (O (x) ↔ E (x)) – no longer meets the requirements of modern knowledge. There is a weakening of equivalence to the conjunction ∃x (¬O (x) & E (x)). “Autonomy” of analytic truth with regard to the empirical truth is illustrated by the example of physical and logical theories.

Keywords: observability, existence, the principle of observability, object, physics, cosmology.