String theory,Einstein, and the identity of physics: Theory assessment in absence of the empirical

String theorists are certain that they are practicing physicists. Yet, some of their recent critics deny this. This paper argues that this conflict is really about who holds authority in making rational judgment in theoretical physics. At bottom, the conflict centers on the question: who is a proper physicist? To illustrate and understand the differing opinions about proper practice and identity, we discuss different appreciations of epistemic virtues and explanation among string theorists and their critics, and how these have been sourced in accounts of Einstein's biography. Just as Einstein is claimed by both sides, historiography offers examples of both successful and unsuccessful non-empirical science. History of science also teaches that times of conflict are often times of innovation, in which novel scholarly identities may come into being. At the same time, since the contributions of Thomas Kuhn historians have developed a critical attitude towards formal attempts and methodological recipes for epistemic demarcation and justification of scientific practice. These are now, however, being considered in the debate on non-empirical physics.     

现代教学媒体及其应用的探讨

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近代中西方不同命运的文化思考

19世纪末20世纪初,资本主义确立了对全世界的统治,而中国在闭关锁国中沉沦下去,究其原因,儒家思想的内部弹性日趋萎缩和家族本位的思想积淀使我国近代社会步入闭塞;而西方的人文主义、自由主义则使西方迅速摆脱了中世纪思想文化的沉重包袱,资本主义得到迅速的发展。     

高等师范学校物理实验教学改革的研究与实践

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关于洛仑兹变换

论述洛仑兹变换及其四维形式的由来，并分析了物理量的变换性质。     

L3 L~＋L~－γγ事例的一种可能解释

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中国现当代寓言创作的缺失

中国现当代寓言创作虽然取得了很大的成就,但相当一部分作品从立意到表现却存在着脱离讽喻性、失去故事性、忽视原创性的倾向。中国现当代寓言的创作应在这些方面有所改进。     

关于近代物理实验教学的思考

本文从教学模式、教学方法、开放实验、专题讲座几方面提出了关于提高近代物理实验教学质量的一些设想。     

Picturing the moon: Hevelius’s and Riccioli’s visual debate

This article investigates the maps of the moon produced in the mid-seventeenth century by Jesuit Giambattista Riccioli (1598-1671) and Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), whose cartographic projects competed for widespread acceptance. Although Hevelius’s Selenographia (1647) was applauded for its many detailed, self-engraved pictures of the moon, his cartography and proposed nomenclature were supplanted by Riccioli’s as offered in Almagestum novum (1651), in spite of the latter’s simplistic pictures and promotion of geocentric cosmology. Exploring this paradox through pictorial analysis, three types of images common to both Selenographia and Almagestum novum are compared, employing an analytical tool developed by Svetlana Alpers in The art of describing (1983). A focus on this debate exposes the tensions evoked by new technologies of vision and competing cultures of visual epistemology in seventeenth-century astronomy. As both selenographers grappled with questions about the role of representation and what kinds of knowledge could be generated visually, the successes and failures of their competing projects present implications for the course of visual astronomy, as well as for our understanding of the use of ‘visual technologies’ in a period of controversy.