Journal Title：Foundations Of Physics

The conceptual foundations of physics have been under constant revision from the outset, and remain so today. Discussion of foundational issues has always been a major source of progress in science, on a par with empirical knowledge and mathematics. Examples include the debates on the nature of space and time involving Newton and later Einstein; on the nature of heat and of energy; on irreversibility and probability due to Boltzmann; on the nature of matter and observation measurement during the early days of quantum theory; on the meaning of renormalisation, and many others.

Today, insightful reflection on the conceptual structure utilised in our efforts to understand the physical world is of particular value, given the serious unsolved problems that are likely to demand, once again, modifications of the grammar of our scientific description of the physical world. The quantum properties of gravity, the nature of measurement in quantum mechanics, the primary source of irreversibility, the role of information in physics – all these are examples of questions about which science is still confused and whose solution may well demand more than skilled mathematics and new experiments.

Foundations of Physics is a privileged forum for discussing such foundational issues, open to physicists, cosmologists, philosophers and mathematicians. It is devoted to the conceptual bases of the fundamental theories of physics and cosmology, to their logical, methodological, and philosophical premises.

The journal welcomes papers on issues such as the foundations of special and general relativity, quantum theory, classical and quantum field theory, quantum gravity, unified theories, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, cosmology, and similar.

物理学的概念基础从一开始就一直在不断修订，直到今天仍然如此。对基础问题的讨论一直是科学进步的主要来源，与经验知识和数学不相上下。例子包括涉及牛顿和后来的爱因斯坦的关于空间和时间性质的辩论；关于热和能量的性质；关于玻尔兹曼的不可逆性和概率；关于量子理论早期物质的性质和观察测量；关于重整化的含义，还有很多其他的。

今天，鉴于严重的未解决问题可能需要再次修改我们对物理世界的科学描述的语法，对我们在理解物理世界的努力中使用的概念结构进行深入思考具有特别的价值世界。引力的量子特性、量子力学中测量的性质、不可逆性的主要来源、信息在物理学中的作用——所有这些都是科学仍然困惑的问题的例子，其解决方案可能需要的不仅仅是熟练的数学和新的实验。

Foundations of Physics 是讨论此类基础问题的特权论坛，对物理学家、宇宙学家、哲学家和数学家开放。它致力于物理学和宇宙学基本理论的概念基础，以及它们的逻辑、方法和哲学前提。

该期刊欢迎有关狭义和广义相对论的基础、量子理论、经典和量子场论、量子引力、统一理论、热力学、统计力学、宇宙学等问题的论文。