In 1966,
- I published papers telling Princeton made a big mistake, known widely as the
Dashen-Frautchi Fiasco.
In 1965, Princeton appointed
Roger Dashen as a full professor at their Institute for Advanced Study (institute created
for Einstein). His appointment was based on his calculation of the neutron-proton
mass difference. Dashen became the genius of the century.
With my own Herod Complex (someone other than myself
is a genius??), I became very unhappy. I looked at Dashen's papers, and I found a
gross mistake.
In 1966, I published my papers telling Dashen made a mistake in his calculation.
Click here to see how wrong he was.
- However, the reaction from the American physics community was
Dashen is a genius, but you are only a Korean. Go back to Korea.
Thus, my position was in danger at the University of Maryland. I contacted
Sam Treiman for help. Treiman
was my thesis advisor at Princeton, and I used to regard him as my route to Princeton.
He told me to come to Princeton and explain the situation, and I did.
However, he did not have enough brain power to understand the details of my explanations,
and he became very angry. His reaction was "Dashen is a genius. Never come to Princeton
again." This happened in 1966.
- I hate to say this.
I had to conclude that my brain is superior to the brains of those Princetonians who
believed Dashen was a genius.
- Some of my American friends still believe Dashen was a genius. They strongly
disagree with me when I say Princeton made a big mistake on the issue
known as the Dashen-Frautchi fiasco. They do not
tell me directly, but they still think "Dashen is an American genius, but Kim
is only a Korean." I could mnot change their national prejudice against me.
On the other hand, I have enough scientific resources to circumvent them and
build a bridge to Einstein. I was able to constuct Princeton's Einstein genealogy
based on the articles I published in the scientic journals, and I sing Einstein
loudly these days. The United States has been very nice to me, much nicer to me
than to my American friends who told me "Dashen is a genius, but you are only a Korean."
- I used to think I had been an excellent student thanks to my hard work while
God gave, biologically, the same brain power to everybody. Did God give me a
superior brain? I am not yet ready to say Yes.
- After this event of 1966, I became able to understand why Eugene Paul Wigner was so
isolated from the rest of Princeton.
Since they could not understand my explanation of the
Dashen-Frautchi Fiasco, they did not have enough brain power to digest
Wigner paper on the Einstein issue
which led to his E = mc 2 .
- I then started publishing my papers on the Wigner issues with my younger colleagues.
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