Kriza fundamentalne znanosti
Crisis of the Fundamental Science

Summary/Abstract: Fundamental sciences study the basic laws of nature, and they, first of all, include physics and other related sciences. The status of these sciences determines the plausibility of our knowledge and presupposes the directions and prognoses of further development. The analysis of the present condition of fundamental sciences, or of their condition in the last decades, shows that there are some indications of crisis. The symptoms of crisis have different roots, we mention only some of them: methodological, epistemological, ontological and pragmatic. We are first of all interested in the state of crisis caused by the impossibility of forming one single fundamental science, realized through single fundamental physics. Early in the last century there occurred a paradigmatic change of fundamental science patterned in Einstein’s Special and General Theory of Relativity as well as in Bohr’s and Heisneberg’s quantum mechanics. These two concepts in many parts are not compatible and further development of science aimed at reconciling these two worldviews, and at giving one single theory. But this did not prove feasible till the present day and the cause lies in a deep ontological difference, that is, in different conceptions of physical reality. In this short paper one will try and give indications of these differences which can induce us to the conclusion that we are dealing with a deep crisis; and if these diagnoses are correct, a simple question poses itself: is an end of the fundamental science showing through, and at the same time the end of science in general or whether we have a new beginning?

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