A critique of the representation of nature in contemporary physics. Its relationship with the humanistic sciences

Abstract

Conflictive alienation between humanistic sciences and physics or mathematical physics has arisen from the hardness of physics hypothesis and the image of nature that physics projects.
Growing demands to satisfy material needs of a highly populated world, that is, requirements of technological efficiency in energy conversion for production, distribution and consumption, add now to emerging demands on the conservation of those very resources and environment to keep stable that sustentation, and that is, requirements of technological efficiency in the non degradation and energy reconversion. This is a conflictive duality.
Both demands in efficiency are coupled; we are reaching the limit in which they cannot be independent between them any more. Additionally, they have all sorts of boundary conditions: geographical, zoological, social, economic and cultural phenomena.
A policy managing these problems inadequately will fail in very short time, and if culture ignores them, culture is condemned not only to fail, but also to increase them. Political or cultural voluntarism alerts, some times, not always, about needs, catastrophic present conditions or future consequences, but we will be in need of something else than voluntarism and good intentions, and it is technical knowledge of the problem, and above all, lucidity about its boundary conditions, which, by the way, are not in the least theoretical, and the consequences of not reaching to a satisfying solution.
The dimension of so much pressing requirements posses a global problem, and its interdisciplinary complexity, without precedents, forces to think that solution will be global and interdisciplinary, necessarily. No particular solution will do.
An isolated physical science will not be able to offer it, nor either an isolated human science. It is indispensable that both scientific communities understand their methods, working hypotheses, postulates, theories and boundary conditions in their specific problems, to approach and tackle in accord the common problem. These lines have this purpose, to lay out a bridge to such understanding. They surely will be insufficient, incomplete, but it is healthy to built it.