摘 要：亚里士多德的运动学理论作为一个完整的体系，为后人留下了若干难题；正是这些难题，不仅激发了中世纪学者的研究兴趣，更重要的是，为伽利略的出场提供了契机；伽利略的实验在经典物理学中扮演了关键的角色，而这种实验的意义却是重在验证而非发现、实验本身则为理想与现实世界的沟通提供了桥梁；因此，经典物理学的开端肇始于逻辑推理而非实验发现。但此研究特色仅限于经典物理，并因此而构成经典物理与量子物理的区别。
关键词： 伽利略； 亚里士多德； 常识； 经典物理； 量子物理
Galileo’s Experiment: For Verification, No Discovery
CHEN Rong-xia
Abstract: As a complete system, the theory of Aristotle’s kinematics left a number of problems for future generations. These problems not only stimulated research interest of the medieval scholars, but also provided an opportunity for the appearance of Galileo. Galileo’s experiment played a key role in classical physics. The meaning of thisexperiment is not discovery but verification, and the experiment itself provided a bridge between ideal world and real world. Therefore, the beginning of classical physics started from logical reasoning rather than experimental finding. The starting of logical reasoning based on common sense or experience. However, this characteristic is only limited in classical physical, and thus it constitutes one of the differences between physics and quantum physics.
Key words: Galileo; Aristotle; common sense; classical physics; quantum physics
