论大科学实验的不确定性——以探测引力波实验为例

On the Uncertainty of Big Science:Taking the Experiment of Detecting Gravitational Wave as Example

在以探测引力波实验为代表的大科学实验中,从实验原理到实验设计、以及对实验结果的判定都表现出很强的不确定性。这导致了探测引力波实验的科学文化割裂成证据的个人主义和证据的集体主义两种形式,并对实验室之间的合作提出了更高要求。表明在大科学时代,由于实验所涉的不确定性因素的影响,实验的场域已经走出了实验室,变成了一种行业性实验。

In the big science which represented by gravitational wave experiment, there is a strong uncertainty from the experimental principle to the design as well as the judgement for the result.As a result, the scientific culture of detecting gravitational wave experiment is separated into evidential individualism and evidential collectivism,and puts forward to the cooperation between laboratories.This proves that in the age of big science,because of the uncertainty, the field of experiment has go beyond the laboratory but becomes a industry.