Professors Antonio Aparicio and Francisco José Soler Gil have in common the possession of training physics and philosophy. They were together last September 8 at the first seminar that the group of research Science, Reason and Faith (CRYF) of the University of Navarra organized this course, which was entitled degree scroll "Does current cosmology point to a self-sufficient universe?".

The scientific search for a physical theory that is often called the "Theory of Everything" -topic of great actuality and greater interest in part due to the success of the homonymous movie - raises many questions and not a few controversies. In order to address them, we decided to give seminar a approach multidisciplinary approaching the question from Physics and Philosophy.

Antonio Aparicio, Senior Associate Professor at the department of Astrophysics of the University of the Canary Islands. University of La Laguna researcher group of Stellar Populations in Galaxies at the IAC (IAC) and master in . high school of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) and master in Philosophy, introduced his exhibition trying to answer the question proposal by translating it by this other one: is the universe the ultimate reality, or is there something else? And, going a step further in his exhibition, he posed two other questions well known to philosophers and, in his opinion, truly ultimate: why is there something instead of nothing? Does freedom exist? In his opinion cosmology does not seem to be in a better position now than in former times to give an answer to these two questions.

The speaker explained what Physics says today, its field of work, and what the Philosophy responds to: "Physics does not deal with the ultimate whys and wherefores. It has no answer, for example, to why there is something rather than nothing. In any answer to these questions it is necessary to adopt a position staff that becomes an axiom or a starting postulate for everything else. From the physical method, let alone from a materialistic approach , physics has no scope in which to accommodate freedom," he said.

In relation to the critical issues of cosmology, Professor Aparicio pointed out that the physics of the universe is unknown in the very high density states, that is, the one that existed in the moments immediately after the big bang; "we do not know what the dark subject is, nor the dark energy, because the laws of physics are deduced only from the observable universe. If there are other universes or a goal universe or multiverse, we have no empirical access to them and it is very difficult to do physics of these objects." His position was that "physics based on the empirical test provides the fundamental tool for understanding and representing the material world. Freedom is part of reality and yet it is not representable in physical terms. Therefore in the world there is at least one real realm that transcends the material."

Francisco José Soler Gil, Ph.D. in Philosophy by the University of Bremen and member of the group of research of Philosophy of Physics of the aforementioned academic center, as well as researcher at the University of Seville, wondered whether it is possible to suppose that the Universe is not the ultimate, but the penultimate reality, in two different ways: on the one hand, physical reality may not be exhausted in the domain we currently know as the universe; and on the other hand, what has been learned about the universe could be pointing towards aspects of reality that go beyond physics. Examples of the former can be found in physical models that suggest a multiverse, or a physical reality prior to the big bang. One sample of the latter is to consider the rationality and physical object character of the cosmos described by current cosmology.

He focused on the discussion The 1948 meeting between Russell and Copleston, in which Copleston posited the universe as a thing, as God's work of art. Current cosmology invites us to consider that the universe is not a self-sufficient reality.

This was followed by a colloquium where the speakers were able to clarify and expand on their respective positions and answer questions from the audience.