POSITIVISM IS NOT MARXISM

Harry Nielsen says that "the method of Marxism is to first study the facts of a subject, and then to draw out its processes and its connections. This describes not only the method of Marxism but also the method of science", and on the contrary "The emphasis in modern physics is on deduction from axioms and on the development of ideas through mathematical logic".

But the statement "first the facts" is not Marxist but Positivist. Real scientist are not naifs, and they approach to reality through pre-conceptions (or implicit prejudices or explicit theories). And they can only leave a theory when they have a better theory, with better explanation power of the reality. This is not in the present the case of the alternative theories to the Big Bang: Alex Nichols is all right.

Harry Nielsen says "Dark matter, together with its counterpart “dark energy”, still remains undetected in any laboratory experiments" .

Well, "dark energy" is not the "counterpart" of the "dark matter". In fact, they have not relation: "dark matter" is not visible ordinary matter (for example, clouds of dust), and it is attractive; "dark energy" would be a new type of energy alongside gravitatory, electromagnetic, weak nuclear and strong nuclear energy, and it has to be repulsive and to increase with the distance, in order to explain the acceleration of the cosmic expansion. This "dark energy" can produce the Einstein's Cosmological Constant.

Yes, eventual particles connected with "dark energy" has not been detected. And particles connected with gravitation has neither been detected, but we notice its effects, and also the cosmic effects of the possible "dark energy".

Attacks to the theory of the Big Bang by philosophical prejudices, from the statement of being "a theory based on false premises – that time has a beginning" are similar to attacks to the darwinist theory of the evolution by religious prejudices, arguing that it does not explain every biological facts in order to state for the creationism or "theory of the intelligent design".

Of course, science cannot state the eternal survival of the theory of the Big Bang. This theory can be substituted by better future theories. But these theories does not exist in the present. And if they appear someday, they will appear on the wave of scientific research and inside scientific institutions, not through the crutch of  philosophical prejudices.

Atheistic, marxist and scientific regards from 
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Rafael Pla-Lopez
mailto:Rafael.Pla@uv.es
http://www.uv.es/~pla
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