第三种文化视角下公众领域的弦理论争论

科学家共同体内部一直在争论弦理论是不是科学,理论的支持者们认为该理论是最有希望的统一理论,反对者们却强调它不能付诸实验检验。伴随着弦理论在公众领域的传播,争论蔓延至大众媒体,且从最初的科学维度扩张到哲学和社会学维度。从哲学和社会学角度争论弦理论是否是科学、弦理论是否造成了物理学不良的社会学氛围、科学家在传播科学时遵循什么样的科学精神气质,形成了对布罗克曼第三种文化的深化,实现了科学文化与人文文化的沟通。

The Third Culture Reflection on the String Theory Debates in Public

String theory is regarded by its practitioners as the most promise unified theory,but the critics emphasized that it cannot be tested experimentally.The debates about string theory’s status as a science has been going on inside the scientific community.With the spread of string theory in public,the debates which confined to scientific judgments in the philosophical and sociological perspective get the attention of the media and the wider public.From the perspective of philosophy and sociology,controversies on whether string theory should be counted as science,whether string theory leads a bad sociological influences in physics,and what kind of the ethos of science that scientists should follow in science communication,promote the meaning of Brockman's the third culture,and provide the bridge between two cultures——the sciences and the humanities.