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On what grounds?
- Toyotomi Hideyosi is a very important person in the history of
Japan. He brutally eliminated his rival warlords and unified Japan
into one country.
- Since he had a humble family background, there are jokes about
him. He is known as O-Saru-San (Mr. Monkey) in Japan. He appears like
a monkey to human eyes, but he is a human when monkeys look at him.
How did he appear to himself? Click here.
- Yes, he looks differently when you look at him from different angles.
If this question is too complicated, let us reduce him to a hydrogen atom, the simplest object in this world. The question then becomes how the hydrogen atom appears to moving observers. The same question is how this atom appears to a stationary observer when it flies.
- Einstein did not address this question and left it as a homework problem
for younger generations. -- My research starts here.
Click here for my
Einstein page.
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- In 1954, I became a freshman at the Carnegie Institute of Technology after
finishing my high-school years in Korea.
In 1958, I became one of the 15 boys selected for physics graduate program
at Princeton University. At that time, Princeton did not admit girls.
Wherever I go, I brag about my Princeton background. People thus ask me- whether I was the first Korean to receive a PhD degree from Princeton,
- whether I met Einstein, when I tell them I studied physics there.
- whether I was the first Korean to receive a PhD degree from Princeton,
- For the first question, I was not the first Korean PhD from Princeton.
Syngman Rhee got his degree in 1910. He is regarded as Woodrow Wilson's
most accomplished student, and the main lecture hall at Princeton’s
Woodrow Wilson School for Public Affairs is called "Syngman Rhee Lecture Hall."
- For the second question, you may continue browsing this webpage.
When I went to Princeton in 1958, Einstein was already in Heaven.
How could I talk to him? Go to
this page.
- This table tells how much I added to Einstein's E = mc^2.
These additions are contained in this book.
Click here for detailed explanations. Let us see what we say in this book.
- How can we construct the mathematics of this process?
- Click here for Dirac's contribution to
this task.
- Click here, for the integration of Dirac's efforts.
- Click here for Dirac's contribution to
this task.
- Next, there are no hydrogen atoms moving fast enough to show this
relativistic effect. What purpose does this matmematic serve in physics?
Those protons are not hydrogen atoms. What does the proton tell about the hydrogen atom?
- In 1964, Murray Gell-Mann found out the proton is a quantum bound
state of more fundamental particles called "quarks," as the hydrogen atom
is a bound-state of one proton and one electron.
- However, in 1969, Richard Feynman observed that the same proton, when
moving with the velocity close to that of light, appears as a collection
of infinite number of free particles with a wide-spread momentum distribution.
These particles are called "partons."
- The question is whether the quarks and partons are the same entity viewed
by different observers. The following figure answers this question.
All observed in high-energy labs in the real world.
- Click here for further explanation.
- Yet, we can be more ambitious. The question is whether
these two scientific disciplines can be synthesized into one. Crazy? See
the following figure.
For a detailed explanation, go to my publication list.
Physics is Art of Synthesis!
This conclusion tells us quantum mechanics and Einstein's relativity can exist in harmony.
- How did I build the bridge?
Japan's Yukawa Hideki (Nobel 1949) was a Taoist physicist. In this photo, Einstein is very happy to be with him (1953).
For Kant and Hegel in Physics, you may click here, or click here for the same paper with sharper images.
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