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Further Contents of Einstein's E = mc²

while attending the Dmitri Volkov Memorial Conference in Kharkov (July 2000), next to Lev Landau's portrait.

Young Suh Kim
Center for Fundamental Physics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
U.S.A.

e-mail: yskim@physics.umd.edu

Where am I in the physics map?

with respect to Feynman
with respect to Wigner

Education and Employment: PhD (1961) from Princeton University; on the faculty of the University of Maryland since 1962.
Research Interests: Elementary particle theory; Lorentz group applicable to other areas of physics including quantum optics, condensed matter physics, and classical mechanics; foundations of quantum mechanics, particularly the question of making the uncertainty principle consistent with special relativity.
Research Result: After many years of struggles in research, I found out that modern physics is largely a physics of harmonic oscillators and/or two-by-two matrices, since otherwise problems are not soluble. Thus, we can solve many problems by reducing them into the framework of two coupled harmonic oscillator. For instance, special relativity is a physics of Lorentz transformations, which can be represented by SL(2,c) or the group of two-by-two unimodular matrices. Thus, we can thus combine quantum mechanics with relativity using the mathematics of two coupled oscillators.
Professional Activities: Organizing international conferences, ysfine.com communication system which lists many webpages for international conferences.
Extracurricular Activities: Talking with students on various issues; collecting Coca-Cola cans of different designs from different countries; writing internet articles.
More recently, making the webpages more attractive to visitors. This is a very challenging new art. If you are a frequent visitor to my website, you will note that I am making progress along this line of research.
True Character: I am a freedom-loving boy, and I enjoy talking/listening to everybody in the world. Please Please e-mail me if you have brilliant ideas.