Ideas and surprises of mathematical physics in simplest examples

Introduction to Category Theory

Europe/Moscow
Description
In the physics horn I will try to correct general misconceptions that are spread among
people by mass culture.
In the first talk i will explain that Newton constructed not classical physics but
a predecessor to classical physics. We will go through his misconceptions and show how
they could be corrected in a extremal action principle. I will explain that the notion of force is
not the fundamental concept and trace its root in the culture of violence (the actual western culture
of the Newton's time. In the contrast to it, the extremal action principle naturally fits the culture of harmony
(that is in the heart of eastern culture).
I will go also from particles to fields that cannot be done in Newton theory (except some particular cases like
ether that I will also discuss).