<div>Even if science is a cultural product, there are lots of subcultures within all countries that have scientific research. What effect do you feel these subcultures have on the pursuit of science in general, or Physics in specific?</div>
<div><br></div>I know that it is a general trend in dominant culture to grab the limelight for one's self (I think that is easily drawn from the Reality Star trend). So we are saying that this is the motivation behind this race for String Theory? The desire to be the next Einstein/Newton/Maxwell?<div>
<br></div><div>And if so, how is that different from past trends? What was the previous motivation for scientific discoveries? Is it possible, or even desirable to return to that?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/8/19 Stefano Vaj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefano.vaj@gmail.com">stefano.vaj@gmail.com</a>></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>Why, in 2011 we should have learned by now that science is no less a cultural product than anything else... :-) </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote></div>-- <br><font color="#888888">Stefano Vaj</font><br></blockquote></div></div>