Basics of Particle Physics: books and courses
Where to learn entry-level particle physics? Like most people, I have been hearing about words like "quarks, hadrons, leptons" since junior high school. However, I have never known the next…
2023 Summary of Spirituality — Bible, Dostoevsky and Hindu culture
Newton and God In modern people's mind, science like fundament physics and spirituality (or mysticism) like the Bible are contradictory to each other. From my experience of interacting with my…
Summary for 2023 — Physics (continued)
Quantum Information and error correction by Daniel Gottesman and Artur Ekert During January to April in 2023, while studying quantum error correction in the textbook reading session of our research…
Summary for 2023 — Physics
The effect of pandemic decayed away in 2023, so I attended many activities. This is the most dynamical year since the start of graduate school in 2019. I split the…
Summer holiday 2023 (continued)
This post continues talking about my summer holiday from August to September. I will talk about movies I watched and books I read. The Brothers Karamazov Ivan explains to Alyosha…
Summer holiday 2023
I finally had a chance to go back to my hometown in this summer after more than three years of the pandemic. After attending one international conference on Statistical Mechanics,…
《流浪者之歌》和《薄伽梵歌》
During the end of July and early August, I finish two books: Siddhartha and Bhagavad Gita, both related to Indian tradition and culture. Since I read in Chinese, the post…
Memoirs: Polyakov, Migdal and Polchinski
I finished reading several memoirs of physicists this month. Two are Russian-born physicists, Alexander Polyakov and Alexander Migdal. One is the author of a modern String Theory textbook, Polchinski. I…
威廉·布莱克的开放意识 (Blake’s Open Awareness)
Early this year, I was thinking about how a person should act in the world. Very implicitly, I feel the key word should be authentic, without knowing much about the…
Modern Classical Dynamics by Polyakov at Princeton: Symmetry, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics
I was so exciting to find a series of lecture videos on YouTube about Classical Physics by Professor Alexander Polyakov early this year. From the course website here or here,…
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