Science as Metaphor (Slate)

同じく Slate にあった記事。『エレガントな宇宙』(ISBN:4794211090)ですっかり有名になったブライアン・グリーンだけど、実際のところ物理学界で彼はどういうふうに見られているの？という記事。

True, Greene's technical explanations are often effective. Yet the strain of romanticism that emerges - and ultimately becomes inextricable from the discussion of string theory - necessarily raises questions. Greene plays fast and loose with terms like beauty and elegance, using them in a semiclassical, semiromantic sense, with little distinction between equations and the "reality" they may represent.

やっぱりあれ読んでおくべきかなぁ。