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Zugl.: Dortmund, University, Diss.

In my thesis A Box Full of Light, Personality and Thoughts of Niels Bohr as an Inspiration for Science Documentaries, I look, as a documentary film director, at the basic principles and visualizations of the characteristic contemporary popular-science documentaries. I consider this form of documentary film for the most part bleak, often flat and lacking in any kind of progress. I am attempting to unravel where these tendencies come from and show, that they strongly relate to the general notion of science, which stands on the foundations of Newton-Carthesian paradigma. Especially in the area of ideals of measurableness, objectivity and mathematization. At the same time I also contemplate the relationship of knowledge and power, of science as a certain ideology and so also the connection between science documentary and ideological film. In the second part of this thesis I look for inspiration for artistically more progressive, richer and more multi-layered documentary films about science. I find this inspiration in the thoughts of the Danish physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcos Penna.pdf: 325191 bytes, checksum: a4c6b00eafd9315c2614998403dfd016 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-14 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The aim of this abstract is to study the formulation of Niels Bohr´s atomic model in the beginning of the twentieth century, regarding the atomic model of Rutherford. The issues about instability resulting from this model and the observation that the classical mechanic could not express the atomic reality were both intensively approached themes those days. Besides that, spectroscopy data showed that the raising of spectral lines, characteristic of chemical elements, should be explained by an atomic model. The classical mechanic is replaced in the analysis of the atomic phenomena under Bohr´s atomic model. After Max Planck´s ideas, the energy from the atomic processes is not absorbed nor is it continually freed. Actually it is found in the form of energy packages called quanta. To develop his atomic model, Bohr uses studies from Rutherford experiments as well as works about the spectral lines observed from spectroscopic analyses on chemical elements, in which each chemical element can be identified from the light spectrum emitted when this element after receiving energy changes the orbit and remains unstable, freeing an amount of energy in the form of light at the moment that it returns to its stable state / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo o estudo da formulação do modelo atômico de Niels Bohr no inicio do século XX, a partir do modelo atômico de Rutherford. A questão da instabilidade decorrente desse modelo, bem como a observação de que a mecânica clássica não poderia expressar a realidade atômica foram temas intensamente debatidos naquela época. Além disso, os dados de espectroscopia demonstravam que o aparecimento das riscas espectrais características dos elementos químicos deveria ser explicado por um modelo atômico. No desenvolvimento do modelo atômico de Bohr, a mecânica clássica e substituída na análise dos fenômenos atômicos. A partir das idéias de Max Planck, segundo as quais a energia dos processos atômicos não é absorvido nem liberada de forma contínua, mais sim na forma de pacotes de energia chamados de quanta. Para desenvolvimento de seu modelo atômico Bohr se utiliza estudos do experimento de Rutherford e de trabalhos sobre as riscas espectrais observadas a partir de analises espectroscópicas dos elementos químicos, segundo a qual cada elemento químico pode ser identificado a partir do espectro de luz emitido quando o mesmo após receber energia, muda de órbita e fica instável e quando volta ao seu estado de estabilidade libera uma quantidade de energia na forma de luz

Ce mémoire s'inscrit à l'intérieur d'une réflexion systématique et critique portant sur le concept de réalité, à partir des recherches de Planck, Bohr et Heisenberg qui permirent le développement de la physique quantique; celle-là même qui allait bouleverser les fondements scientifiques acquis, sur lesquels reposait notre connaissance du monde. Cependant, la quête pour la connaissance du réel, par le biais de la physique quantique, en tant que langage sur le réel, pose le problème de ce qu'il conviendrait de nommer la réalité, vue à partir d'un langage mathématique essentiellement abstrait. Le problème de l'"accessibilité" au réel, par le biais de telles constructions mentales, est en fait une question de légitimité de l'investigation théorique dans la quête du réel et ce, en tant qu'organisation spécifique d'un langage beaucoup plus vaste sur lequel elle revient constamment s'appuyer, celle de sa raison même de penser le monde existant, de le pressentir à travers la multiplicité de ses manifestations.