Yesterday, the world’s largest experiment to date started at the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) in Geneva. Hydrogen atomic nuclei called protons are accelerated to almost the speed of light in a nearly 27-kilometer underground ring tunnel. These should then be brought into collision with particles accelerated in the directly opposite direction. The energy released in this explosion, the researchers expect, will bring forth new particles or states of matter unknown to us humans.
The project, funded by many states with a total of 6 billion Swiss francs, is experiencing a fierce ideological debate. The sensational press stirs up the stupidest prejudices from the box of the cheapest science fiction stories. From the church, which has been distinguished since the Middle Ages by hostility to science, are raised warning forefingers. It could create black holes that swell to huge monsters and destroy the whole earth with humanity. The whole message of this recent judgment is that humanity should not seek to look behind the scenes, but be content with what the rulers propose as God-given limits.
But even among enlightened bourgeois scientists much mysticism is disseminated in connection with the experiment. So a common representation is that the CERN project produces an allegedly artificial big bang that was far and away the initial state of the world in the past. For some involved scientists this is actually the motivation for the project.
Such a big bang haunts since the 1930s through the natural science characterized by bourgeois ideology. This thesis is unreal and does not rely on practical observations, but on abstract formulas. The more practical observations and insights the science achieves in the microcosm and in the macrocosm, the more absurd the various explanatory patterns for clinging to the Big Bang theory.
In reality, the experiment in Geneva is not a look back, but forward. It offers the possibility of finding states of matter which are largely predicted theoretically from previous findings and which may otherwise only exist in very distant expanses of the universe, in nuclei of active galaxies. It will reveal new smallest particle properties and structures in the microcosm.
So far, theories of physics beyond the atomic nuclei are thus “tested”, whether they fit the Big Bang theory. One checks for agreement with a wrong theory. No wonder that this has resulted in a micro-physics crisis that has lasted for two decades. However, there are many indications today that particle physics is facing a new threshold in its development – comparable to the foundations of classical physics over 500 to 400 years ago, connected with the names of Galileo to Newton, or with the transition to modern physics in front of a hundred Years by Einstein, Planck and others. Each new stage turned out to be a necessity in the advance of human society and brought insights that sooner or later had their practical effect on production and technology.
Ultimately, the findings of CERN, which will only be evaluated in a few years, will be further building blocks and confirmations for the dialectical-materialistic worldview. According to her, the whole world is infinitely moving and evolving matter. Not a “dear God” moves the world, but this material movement from the infinitely smallest to the greatest of systems is in constant creative transformation and development.
Dialectical materialism is the science of the working class. Because he is not only a method of interpreting the world, but also a general guide to the creative revolutionary change of the world. The MLPD offers a variety of literature and seminars for learning the dialectical method. (Books on the dialectical method in Verlag Neuer Weg – order here )
