RELEVANCE OF PARTICLE ACCELERATORS TO NATIONAL GOALS
RELEVANCE OF PARTICLE ACCELERATORS TO NATIONAL GOALS
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DOI：
10.1126/science.173.3996.490
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发表时间：
1971-01-01
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
ROSEN, L
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作者：
ROSEN, L
路易斯·罗森可以表述如下：(i)有足够的军事力量阻止对我们和我们的重要利益发动暴力；（ii）全体人民享有高水平的经济繁荣；（三）全体公民享有良好的健康条件；（四）广泛的教育机会；在获得关于我们自己和我们的环境的基本知识方面取得重大进展；（六）在人类努力的许多领域进行国际合作。我的论点是，粒子加速器是实现这些目标的一种辅助手段，在某些情况下是不可或缺的辅助手段。曾几何时，在不久之前，科学和母性是无可指责的。如今，两者都受到了攻击。这种攻击在很大程度上是情绪化的，甚至是非理性的。它一方面源于无知，另一方面源于沮丧。然而，并不是所有的科学问题都可以归咎于不讲道理的批评者。我们的痛苦很大一部分是自己造成的。我们没有认真对待我们对社会的那部分责任，这部分责任要求我们用非专业人士也能理解的语言来解释、诠释和证明我们的活动。只有我们才能做到这一点。我们，也只有我们，才能根据我们追求的智力和实际价值，就有意义的优先事项提供最好的建议。我们，也只有我们，才能在可接受的成本范围内，对某一特定开发项目实现实用目的的可能性做出最好的评估。我们，也只有我们能够发展出复杂的现象学模型，这些模型有机会预测技术、工业、教育、社会和我们的环境之间的相互作用。历史告诉我们，而且我们的常识也告诉我们，总的来说，科学的进化刺激了文明的进步，并且一直是文明进步的副产品。但并非所有人都同意这一观点；有些人会求助于时间逆转。如果滥用我们的先进技术，我们确实可以想象忠实地再现中世纪的自然条件，但却无法再现使这些条件可以忍受的社会和精神气氛。
Louis Rosen can be stated as follows:(i) adequate military strength to discourage initiation of violence against us and our vital in-terests;(ii) a high level of economic prosperity for all our people;(iii) good health conditions for all our citizens;(iv) broad opportunities for education;(v) significant progress toward acquisition of fundamental knowledge about ourselves and our environment; and (vi) international collaboration in many areas of human endeavor. It is my con-tention that the particle accelerator is an aid, in some cases an indispensable aid, for achieving these goals.There was a time, not long ago, when science and motherhood were beyond reproach. Today, both are under attack. Much of the basis for this attack is emotional, even irrational. It is born of ignorance on the one hand and frus-tration on the other. However, not all of the troubles of science can be blamed on unreasoning critics. A substantial part of our misery is self-inflicted. We have not taken seriously that part of our responsibility to society which dictates that we explain and interpret and justify our activities, in language under-standable to the nonspecialist. We and we alone can do that. We and we alone can provide the best advice on mean-ingful priorities based on the intellectual and practical worth of our pursuits. We and we alone can provide the best assessment ofthe probability that a given development will have a utilitarian purpose at an acceptable cost. We and we alone can develop the sophisticated phenomenological models which have some chance of predicting the interaction of technology, industry, education, society, and our environment. History suggests and our common sense argues that, by and large, the evolution of science has stimulated and has been a by-product of the advance of civilization. Butnot everyone agrees with this thesis; there are those who would invoke time reversal. By misuse of our advanced technology, it may in-deed be conceivable to faithfully re-create the physical conditions of the Middle Ages, but not the social and mental climate which made those condi-tions tolerable.