Digging down the past

TL;DR

This paper explores the analogy between cosmology and archaeology, analyzing their linguistic similarities and differences, and examining how their theoretical frameworks influence their interpretation of data.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of cosmology and archaeology, focusing on their conceptual parallels and the impact of theoretical guidelines on data interpretation.

Findings

Identifies linguistic similarities between cosmology and archaeology.

Highlights differences in their scientific approaches.

Discusses the influence of theoretical frameworks on data analysis.

Abstract

It is often stated that cosmology is an extreme form of archeology that deals with aeons of time extending back to thousands of millions of years. One talks, for instance, of relics of the early Universe, and phases in the history of the Universe that resemble the division of phases in human development used by archeologists to interpret the data they gather in the field. In this text we shall analyze these "linguistic" similarities, and the differences between these two scientific activities paying some attention on the role played by their theoretical guidelines.