Foundations Of Physics

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不断被修订，至今仍是如此。基础问题的讨论一直是科学进步的主要源泉，与经验知识和数学不相上下。例子包括牛顿和后来的爱因斯坦关于空间和时间的性质的辩论；关于热和能量的性质的辩论；关于玻尔兹曼的不可逆性和概率的辩论；关于量子理论早期物质和观察测量的性质的辩论；关于重正化的意义的辩论，等等。

今天，对我们理解物理世界所用的概念结构的深刻反思具有特别的价值，因为严重的未解决问题可能再次要求我们对物理世界的科学描述语法进行修改。引力的量子特性、量子力学中的测量性质、不可逆性的主要来源、信息在物理学中的作用——所有这些都是科学界仍然困惑的问题的例子，这些问题的解决可能需要的不仅仅是熟练的数学和新的实验。

《物理学基础》是一个讨论这些基础问题的特权论坛，向物理学家、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、方法论和哲学前提。

该期刊欢迎关于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。

Foundations Of Physics创刊于1970年，由Springer US出版商出版，收稿方向涵盖物理 - 物理：综合全领域，此刊是中等级别的SCI期刊，所以过审相对来讲不是特别难，但是该刊专业认可度不错，仍然是一本值得选择的SCI期刊 。平均审稿速度 较慢,6-12周 ，影响因子指数1.2，该期刊近期没有被列入国际期刊预警名单，广大学者值得一试。