Golden Events and Statistic: What's Wrong With Galison's Image/Logic Distinction?

摘要

Peter Galison has recently claimed that twentieth-century microphysics has been pursued by two distinct experimental traditions-the image tradition and the logic tradition-that have only recently merged into a hybrid tradition. According to Galison, the two traditions employ fundamentally different forms of experimental argument, with the logic tradition using statistical arguments, while the image tradition strives for non-statistical demonstrations based on compelling ("golden") single events.