Revolusi Sains Indonesia

Rekan-Rekan yth.,

Metafisika dan fisika dalam kenyataannya merupakan dua hal yang tak terpisahkan.

Mari pertimbangkan dua kasus berikut:

1. Persamaan Schroedinger
Schroedinger memperoleh teorinya adalah murni tebakan atau ilham.
Tebakan Schroedinger tentu bukanlah tebakan asal-asalan, melainkan
tebakan yang brilian.

Richard Feynman berkata dalam bukunya:

“We do not intend to have you we have derived the Schroedinger
equation but only wish to show you one way of thinking about it. When
Schroedinger first wrote it down, he gave a kind of derivation based
on some heuristic arguments and some brilliant intuitive guesses.”
[Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III, 16-4]

“Where did we get that form [the Schroedinger equation]? Nowhere. It’s
not possible to derive it from anything you know. It came out of the
mind of Schroedinger, invented in his struggle to find an
understanding of the experimental observations of the real world.”
[Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III, 16-12]

2. Kasus Benzena

Mari kita perhatikan pengakuan Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, yang merupakan penemu struktur rantai dalam bidang kimia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_August_Kekul%C3%A9_von_Stradonitz

He said that he had discovered the ring shape of the benzene molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of a snake seizing its own tail (this is a common symbol in many ancient cultures known as the Ouroboros). This vision, he said, came to him after years of studying the nature of carbon-carbon bonds. It is curious that a similar humorous depiction of benzene had appeared in 1886 in the Berichte der Durstigen Chemischen Gesellschaft (Journal of the Thirsty Chemical Society), a parody of the Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, only the parody had monkeys seizing each other in a circle, rather than snakes as in Kekulé’s anecdote.[

3. Kasus Michael Faraday dsb