Subjectifying Objectivity: Delineating Tastes in Theoretical Quantum Gravity Research

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https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312720949691Social Studies of Science 1 ?27 ? The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0306312720949691 journals.sagepub.com/home/sss Subjectifying objectivity: Delineating tastes in theoretical quantum gravity research Thomas Krendl Gilbert1 and Andrew Loveridge2 Abstract Research in theoretical quantum gravity has continued expansively even as it has become detached from classic arbiters of research such as direct empirical falsification. This makes it an interesting test case for theories of what motivates and mediates contemporary scientific research and of the nature of scientific objectivity. We conducted 50 semi-structured interviews with researchers in the rival camps of string theory and loop quantum gravity, coded a subset for reoccurring themes, and subjected the resulting data to statistical analysis. To delineate the subjective tastes and the related process of collective consensus-mak...

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• [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07450