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FRANCISCO GONZÁLEZ DE POSADA AN. R. ACAD. NAC. FARM.

Palabras clave: Farmacia.—Física.—Biología.—Relatividad.—Einstein.—Estruc-
tura.—Respectividad.—Dinamicidad.—Emergencia.

ABSTRACT

Einstein: 100 years of Relativity. Fundamental ideas
for the Pharmaceutical Sciences

The starting point is a reiterated reflection about the Pharmaceutical Sciences
whose contents are made specific by the expression «Pharmacy: from Physics to
Biology», a spectrum wich covers almost all range of the basic natural sciences.
Thus, Physics is a basis for Pharmacy as it is for all the sciences, and one part of
Physics constitutes the content of the Pharmaceutical Sciences. In this disciplinary
context, and with the commemoration of the International Year of Physics, the
following question is answered: does Relativity have a contribution to make in the
field of the pharmaceutical sciences?

The intellectual revolutions introduced by the Special and General Theories of
Relativity are catalogued beneath the expression, open horizons, for and from
Physics towards other areas of the scientific and philosophical thought.

And in the light of the above-mentioned open horizons, the fundamental ideas
are made specific which constitutes the basic conceptions of scientific thought
with general validity for the Pharmaceutical Sciences. These ideas are designated
by the terms: structure, respectivity, dynamicity and emergency.

These terms are indeed Zubirian, but although they are used expressly and
directly, it can be seen that their interpretations and their establishment are
different. On the other hand, the following stand out: a) the applicability of the
said ideas to Relativity itself, and b) the problematic nature of the notion of theory,
of the background of scientific belief and of the mathematical nature of the Nature.

Key words: Pharmacy.—Physics.—Biology.—Relativity.—Einstein.—
Structure.—Respectivity.—Dynamicity.—Emergency.

A MODO DE INTRODUCCIÓN

La Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas decidió declarar el
presente año 2005 como Año Internacional de la Física, solicitan-
do a la UNESCO la organización, coordinación y difusión de la con-
memoración del annus mirabilis de Einstein, año 1905, en el que
escribió un conjunto de artículos de primera categoría. A lo largo
de este año se me ha concedido el honor de participar en diferentes
foros y de escribir algunas páginas como libro (1) y en revistas (2).

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