Kakumichio's Theoretical Contribution

This professor of theoretical physics at new york State University is the founder of superstring theory, which is a key to unlock Einstein's incomprehensible "The Theory of Everything".

Born in a Japanese family, Kakumichio is better at thinking than his peers.

In the United States from 65438 to 0947, World War II just ended. People's lives are gradually on the right track, and scientific exploration affected by war is also on the right track. On June 24th, 65438, Kakumichio was born into a Japanese immigrant family in San Jose, California. "My grandfather came to America when he was young. He participated in the rescue work of the San Francisco earthquake there and then stayed here. "

Kakumichio's father is from California. But in order not to forget his origin, he was sent back to Japan for education, so his English was not very good. Living in two cultures since childhood gave Kakumichio more opportunities to think than his peers: "Why? What should we do in America? What's the difference between Japan? "

When he was a child, his parents took him to San Francisco from time to time to visit the famous Japanese tea garden. When the adults were drinking tea, he squatted by the small pond there and looked at the colorful carp under the water lily, thinking, "How can carp in the water observe the world around them?" Their views should be different from ours, right? Then, their world must be wonderful! "

This child with an oriental face gradually fell in love with thinking. His game is not hide-and-seek or anything, but chess. When Kublai Khan was studying in high school, he became the first in the school chess team. At the same time, his interest in everything around him is growing.

His love for Einstein turned him from an ordinary student into a genius in physics.

Kakumichio became a "problem child" because he was curious about many things in his childhood. An accident in junior high school fascinated him with physics. "My teacher told us a story in class and mentioned a physicist." Kakumichio recalled: "He mentioned the physicist's name with great reverence, calling him the greatest scholar in the whole human history, and his discovery changed the whole world and everything around us. But few people can understand his ideas. "

This physicist is Einstein. In his early years, Kakumichio didn't understand where the teacher's reverence came from, but he will never forget that tone. Moreover, the teacher finally mentioned that "Einstein died before he could finish one of the greatest discoveries" and that "the unfinished paper was on his desk". This ending aroused Kakumichio's curiosity. What is the unfinished work of this great physicist? What problem is so difficult to solve but so important?

Out of curiosity, Kakumichio began to learn as much as possible about Einstein. He went to many libraries and spent a lot of time reading and understanding, so that "it is still warm as spring when I think about it now."

The proposition of superstring theory has brought earth-shaking changes to the whole physics viewpoint.

Kakumichio visited libraries, laboratories and places where he could find all Einstein's works. Soon he found that the story that attracted him was more wonderful than any novel and more important than anything he could think of. He decided to find out the secret. In order to achieve this goal, he is determined to become a theoretical physicist.

When he was in high school, he read all the books about "unified field theory" in the library, then went to Harvard University and got a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. In the meantime, he learned about Einstein's main topic, that is, the perfect combination of "general relativity" and "quantum field theory" However, Einstein, a great scientist, spent 40 years without finishing the work.

In Einstein's calculation, general relativity and quantum field theory are not self-consistent, so a larger theoretical framework is necessary to unify them. Kakumichio is one of more physicists who follow Einstein's footsteps. 1984, he and several other scientists put forward the "superstring theory", arguing that "at first, we thought that the particles that make up matter did not exist, but only the motion of chords in hyperspace." "Different particles are just different vibration modes of strings." "All interactions in nature, including matter and energy, can be understood by splitting and combining strings."

Under the superstring theory, the two topics that Einstein once studied are perfectly combined without any loopholes. The whole physics has undergone earth-shaking changes, and many things we learned in the past have become mistakes. Kakumichio became the founder of superstring theory, and more young physicists began to devote themselves to this new research field.

For him, popularizing science to ordinary people is as important as doing theoretical research.

As an internationally renowned physicist, Kakumichio not only pays attention to scientific research, but also attaches importance to the popularization of science. Published popular science books such as Beyond Time and Space, Parallel Universe, Beyond Einstein, and Unbelievable Physics, which made more readers understand and fall in love with physics.

In the book, Kakumichio is not like a knowledgeable physics professor, but more like a science fiction lover. In Unbelievable Physics, he quoted many classic comics and science fiction movies, including Star Trek and Flash Gordon, and then drew out the physical knowledge behind it. For example, will the force field really be generated one day in the future? When can I use wormholes for interstellar travel? In what way should artificial intelligence be realized? Does perpetual motion machine exist or not?

This book swept the United States as soon as it was listed, and Cox's book review considered it a "real masterpiece, which reliably described everything from subatomic structure to the laws of the universe." His other best-selling book Beyond Space was selected by The New York Times and Washington post as the best popular science book of the year.

In addition to doing popular science work through books, he is also a frequent visitor to TV programs. He used to be a guest on Night Hotline, Riley King Talk Show and Sixty Minutes. He also appeared in several documentaries of American public television, and made special topics for BBC, TechTV, SciFi, Channel and other channels. His ability to explain science programs is super strong, and he can explain any theory that seems mysterious at first glance clearly in easy-to-understand language, and there is a kind of touching affection in his voice.