Echoes of Gravitational Waves

José G. Perillán
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The myth-histories scientists tell tend to be collages of heroes pasted together to evoke an irrefutable scientific foundation of progress. Students consuming these narratives are not introduced to a realistic portrayal of scientific practice; they are fed an idealized form of science based on tropes that are effectively impossible to follow. How does this affect our students? We assume it gives them positive, ideal role models, but is this so? Studies show that students’ motivation is not homogeneous. Some may feel disenfranchised and unmotivated by myth-historical reconstructions of people from circumstances wildly different from their own. Chapter 4 examines one of the clearest examples of this idealization, myth-historical narratives constructed in communicating the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015–16. These narratives cast Albert Einstein as a clear and unambiguous scientific hero. They also engage in an ex post facto transformation of physicist Joseph Weber from scientific pariah to hero.
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科学家们讲述的神话历史往往是把英雄们拼贴在一起,以唤起对进步的无可辩驳的科学基础。学生消费这些叙述没有介绍到科学实践的现实写照;他们被灌输了一种理想化的科学形式,这种形式基于实际上不可能遵循的比喻。这对我们的学生有什么影响?我们以为这会给他们树立积极、理想的榜样,但事实果真如此吗?研究表明,学生的动机是不均匀的。有些人可能会觉得被剥夺了公民权,对那些与自己处境截然不同的人的神话历史重建感到没有动力。第4章考察了这种理想化的最明显的例子之一,即在2015-16年传播引力波发现时构建的神话历史叙事。这些叙述将爱因斯坦塑造成一个清晰而明确的科学英雄。他们还参与了物理学家约瑟夫·韦伯从科学贱民到英雄的事后转变。
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