Germar Rudolf, Resistance Is Obligatory (2012; PDF-Datei

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
appointed any longer if our scientific theories are overthrown.” – Or
so one should think...
In his pioneering epistemological work The Logic of Scientific Discovery,
Popper presented the logical and mathematical proof that it is
impossible to establish even the probable truthfulness of a thesis. With
his interdisciplinary capabilities, he was as good as predestined to write
such a work. His presentation can be briefly summarized as follows: In
order to determine the probable proximity of a theory to the truth, we
would first have to know the precise location of that truth, but this is
precisely what we do not know. From this, Popper deduces: 78
“I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we
must not look upon science as a ‘body of knowledge,’ but rather as a
system of hypotheses; that is to say, as a system of guesses or anticipations
which in principle cannot be justified, but with which we
work as long as they stand up to tests, and of which we are never
justified in saying that we know that they are true’ or ‘more or less
certain’ or even ‘probable’.”
As an illustration of how insecure our presumed knowledge really is,
I refer to the already mentioned example of our present astronomical
concept of the universe.
The geocentric concept of the universe, repeatedly accepted and confirmed
for over 2,000 years, was considered to be “true,” or due to its
frequent and long-lasting reliability at least as “probable,” until a single
researcher demolished the theory with a unique opinion: Nicolaus Copernicus.
Copernicus, who was defended by Galileo Galilei against Johannes
Kepler, was mistaken on some points;
Kepler and Galilei in turn were corrected and improved by Newton;
Newton, who was long considered irrefutable, was in turn “relativized”
by Einstein and proven to describe a special case and hence a
mere approximation.
However, there is little cause for complacency. The latest discoveries
in physics, based among other things on interstellar and intergalactic
phenomena such as the speed of satellites Pioneer 10 and 11, as well as
problems with the theory of gravity, are now challenging this conception
of the universe as well. I do not want to go into detail at this point,
as I intend to discuss it later in greater detail, but this example demon-
78 Karl R. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Hutchinson & Co., London 1968, p. 317.
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