Summary for 2022 — Non Physics
I. Book, movies and TV dramas This year, I've read many books that are related to psychology. One of my motivation is following the motto of Socrates, know yourself! A…
Summary for 2022 — Physics
It's a good time to summarize my 2022 journey of apprentice as a theoretical physicist. It's my first year of doctoral course (in a Japanese university, the first year doctoral…
Decide to keep a diary finally
One of the original motivations of this blog is to record my graduate school study and everyday life in Japan. For example, I had tried to use this site to…
Philosophy I read last year（去年读过的哲学）
I want to summarize the philosophy I had read during year 2021. I wanted to post this in June last year; eventually it comes this year. I plan to write…
Spacetime Physics by Taylor and Wheeler
Many failures and difficulty in understanding general relativity, quantum field theory, and conformal field theory I tried to follow the video lectures of the MIT course 8.962 about general relativity…
Into Rabbit Hole of Quantum Again
It has been half a year since my last post, and I forgot to post a plan for the year 2022. So first some recent updates about my physics study.…
Geometric aspect of classical mechanics
There are many approaches to classical mechanics. The first introduction in high school is intuitive and fit into our everyday experience: motion of a single particle is some trajectory in…
Quantum Theory of Solids by Subir Sachdev
I started Prof. Sachdev's Havard course Physics 295b: Quantum Theory of Solids in the end of October 2021, and finished the first 30 lecture videos in the beginning of February…