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观上海杂技团表演

In the evening of April 30, 2010, we went to watch an acrobatics performance, titled "Revolution", by the Shanghai Acrobatics Troupe, for the publicity of the Shanghai Expo'10.  An album of selected photos of what I took in the show have been uploaded to my web gallery. Taking my son to ...

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Why did I become a physicist?

Below is a guest post I wrote on the blog Backreaction. With the permition of the host of Backreaction, I now post is here. You are certainly welcome to read it from its original location. Why did I become a physicist? This, as normally a question for successful people, appears to be really ...

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普朗克尺度序

应张红宝、何颂、张华之约,我们一道筹划了一个网络论坛—普朗克尺度,旨在给专业人士和爱好者们提供一个理论物理和相关科普的学习和讨论平台。于是这周的每一天我都抽出了一些时间用以架设和调试论坛,主要是安装和修改必要的程序,选取适当的页面风格并对其修改以符合论坛的主题,然后是设置论坛的版块,以及准备一些必要的声明。而今天,论坛终于基本准备就绪,可以对外发布了! 上述几位朋友都是较我年轻的青年才俊,红宝已在重要学术期刊发表多篇论文,何颂论文不少,而且少年天才,头角峥嵘,张华则有《相对论通俗演义》这样的科普著作即将付梓,因此,我也的确乐于和他们一道纵论物理,继往开来。其实,自相识以来我们就一直有开设物理论坛的念头,也讨论过几次,却从未付诸行动,所以今日论坛之开放当非一时冲动之举,亦不是说时机就已十分成熟,只是直觉应该开始有所作为了。 方今之理论物理界,宇宙学是一大研究热门,不仅因其包罗万有,几乎涉及所有物理分枝,更因其承载着人类数千年来对浩瀚无垠之星空的敬畏与揣想。说起宇宙学,人们一般首先想到的是那似乎永远无法触及的遥远边界,可是宇宙学要解决的一个根本问题是宇宙从何而来,只有探知了其本源我们才能更准确地预测宇宙将会走向何方。种种迹象表明宇宙起源于空间尺度极为细微的结构,甚至是时空的奇点,无论是现有的物理理论还是实验技术都远不能窥探这个尺度上的图景,或许可以说,离我们最“遥远”的恐怕并非那杳冥之际,而是就存在于我们周围甚至构成我们自身的那无法深入的微观世界之极—普朗克尺度。要知道,假如我们把可观测宇宙看作一个立方体,那么它的大小差不多是十的八十六次方个立方厘米,而一个立方厘米却能容纳大概十的九十九次方个普朗克尺度的立方体。此外,现代理论物理的一个宏伟目标(或曰终极目标)——统一引力和物质若果可行,也必须从普朗克尺度上实现,因为经典的引力物理在这个尺度上已然失效。如果宇宙在空间上肇始于如此细微的尺度,那么这个尺度上的物理法则也应该是我们现在所能感知的一切物理规律的源头,无论这种因果是决定性的还是概率性的。既然如此,这个理论物理论坛以普朗克尺度为名可以说是恰如其分的。 论坛有两大功能区:学术论坛和非学术论坛,前者依照理论物理的大致分类划分为六个版块,后者则包含科普等三个子论坛,然而如何命名这些个版块着实花费了一番思量。一方面,我认为版块的名称须得既能反映其背后的物理内容又要与中国传统文化结合起来,要文质均衡,而由于中文的特殊性和中国文化数千年的积淀,这点其实不难做到。前面提到了宇宙学,它研究的是宇宙之起源和演化,而屈子《天问》有云:“阴阳三合,何本何化”,诸如宇宙从何而来,又将走向何方、何为万物之滥觞、何为本、何为象等等问题困扰着屈子,也困扰着古往今来无数的思想者,那么宇宙学版以“何本何化”为题应是自然而然的吧。我们知道,光的波动性和粒子性曾在物理史上引起了旷日持久的激烈争论,后来物理学家们认识到光其实既有粒子性又有波动性,不仅如此,自然界所有的物质都具有波粒二相性,而物质的空间尺度越小其波动性也越明显。然而故事并没有结束,随着量子力学和狭义相对论的成功结合,我们发现物质的根本形态或者说自然界的基本实体是所谓的“场”,而波粒二相性不过是量子场之存在性的表象而已。进一步说,高能物理和粒子物理皆为我们运用量子场论探寻微观世界的具体理论。场虽基本,其形态却难以为人所直接感知,这不正与《道德经》所云之“大象无形”不谋而合吗? 除了相对论版,论坛中其他版块的命名过程大抵相若,就不在此一一解释了。相对论版缘何如此特殊呢?众所周知,量子物理和相对论是现代物理的两大柱石,与前者这一集体智慧的结晶不同,相对论几乎是爱因斯坦凭一己之力完成的,特别是广义相对论,更是爱因斯坦深刻洞察力的成就,一次纯粹思维的胜利。广义相对论的另一与众不同之处便是它所隐含的背景无关性,即基本物理法则不依赖于我们用来研究它时所使用的背景时空几何。牛顿力学描述的是物理实体在平直的绝对时空中的运动规律,而量子场论则研究各种场在平直闵氏时空中的动力学,这两套理论体系都依赖于研究对象所依存的背景时空,正如话剧演员们需要一定的舞台才能进行表演。令人惊讶的是,广义相对论颠覆了这一传统认识,因为它所描述的是时空与物质共同遵循的动力学规律,时空不单只作为舞台出现,同时也扮演着某个动力学角色,时空几何(从而引力场)与物质场相互依赖,互相影响。再通过对广义相对论的核心思想—微分同胚不变性的深入剖析,理论家们意识到,广义相对论,特别是量子引力理论应该是一个与背景时空无关的理论。正因如此,我才选择将相对论版命名为背景无关。 另一方面,之所以套用古语也是希望它们能起到一些警醒的作用。我们的国家尽管拥有绵延数千年的灿烂文明,却没能孕育出近代科学,尤其是物理学和公理化数学,我们曾经拥有无数的能工巧匠和精湛技艺,却没能发展出任何科学体系,系统地研究自然万物,这些问题也部分地导致了近代中国的整体落后,而造成这些问题的原因实在是非常复杂,不便赘述。这是个人和民族都难以承受的遗憾与伤痛,在国外从事科研的我感受不可谓不深。我们的先贤不是没有关于自然的哲学思考,这亦可从我选取的版面名称中看出,可惜的是,这类思考和其文字遗存除了较为广泛的人文及社会哲学意义外,远未清晰地触及自然真理。我们有过百家争鸣,有儒、释、道,有宋明理学,有屈子的《天问》,还有柳柳州的《天对》,然而其中所有自然哲学的表现形式几乎总是朦朦胧胧,似是而非。当然,因此而妄自菲薄却大可不必,我们不是也有许多的技术和思想成果为别的民族发扬光大吗?所以我用先哲的遗言命名版面,提醒我自己,或许还有他人,我们的祖先对自然的确有过认真的哲学探索,只是这一哲学进程早应该远远抛离“道,可道,非常道”和“玄之又玄,众妙之门”这类层次。可是,历史不能假设,时光亦无法倒流,那么,就让伤痛归于伤痛,遗憾留给遗憾,从此刻做起,从自己做起:三百年前我们虽然没有走在世界前列,难道我们不能有志在一、两百年后执世界科学之牛耳吗?个人的力量也许微不足道,但“三军可夺帅也,匹夫不可夺其志也”,是为序。 时戊子二月初一 补记 我们很荣幸地邀请到了凌意教授担任论坛的顾问!而张红宝、张华、何颂都分别担任了一到两个版面的版主,这里我要感谢他们已经和将要为论坛付出的一切时间、精力和努力!由于我已经是系统管理员,要进行论坛的日常管理并为论坛提供技术支持,因此实在没有更多的精力再具体地管理某个版块了。

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清明祭

我的奶奶 奶奶离开我差不多两年了,两年里我一直想写篇长长的文章纪念她,记叙她的故事,讲讲我们在一起的日子。可是,每每落笔眼泪就夺眶而下,无法继续。或许要到很多年以后,当思念由汹涌变得绵长,当泪水被岁月风干,我才能静静地回想和奶奶生活在同一个屋子里的二十五个春夏秋冬吧。今日正值清明,就简单地写点什么吧。 六十年前的某天,我爷爷随军逃往台湾,抛下了我奶奶,我两岁的姑妈,还有襁褓中我的父亲。而我奶奶大半生的苦难实际上早在她出生时便已开始,贫穷和战乱的中国当然是这一切的根源。三岁那年,她的亲生父母终于把她卖给了另外一户人家,这一天的到来似乎是注定的,不过迟早而已。那一天她离开了一个本没有多少温暖的家,还未来得及记住她的亲生父母旋即又开始了寄人篱下的生活。她名义上虽为养女,却因为养父母的关系不合,要和她那可怜的养母一道服侍他们一大家子人,十来岁便被送到了作坊里当学徒。那张保留至今的奶奶的卖身契我是见过的,那时我还是个少年,血气方刚,恨不得将那张契约撕得粉碎,心里对她的父母们和旧社会充满了怨恨。可随着年龄的增长,内心的冲动也越来越小,取而代之的是对奶奶与命运抗争,忍受了贫穷的岁月,熬过了文革的凶险,一个人艰辛地把爸爸和姑姑拉扯大的勇气和能力的敬佩。奶奶总是与人为善,加上经历的关系,生活上非常简朴,哪怕是我们家的生活在改革开放之后好转起来,也依旧如此,晚年吃斋念佛的她更是没有什么欲求,只希望自己的后代能够平平安安,健健康康。 由于父母的工作关系,我和奶奶在一起的时间要比和父母在一起的时间还要长出许多。奶奶对我的照顾无微不至,而我却因为年少叛逆时常会厌烦她一些细心的体贴,年龄越大,对此的悔恨也就越深。奶奶和我其实都是把感情埋得很深的人,都倾向于把嘴上可以表达的情感以行动替代,因此有时会显得很坚强。而奶奶的确也是个非常坚忍的人,否则也无法挺过那漫长的艰苦岁月,她一生极少流泪,即使是以前要和我父亲分离,甚至在我出国的时候,她都强忍住了泪水。出国的那天,她没有去码头送我,应该是怕她的愁容影响了我奔赴前程的心情吧。可是在零五年夏天我回国省亲后临行返加之时,她的举动却大为反常,她在家门口紧紧地搂着我,浑身颤抖,痛哭失声,口里念叨着:“仔呀,仔呀,我舍不得你!”我也紧紧地,紧紧地抱着她,哭得一塌糊涂,告诉她我也舍不得她。我搂着她单薄老迈的身躯,心痛如绞!那一刻,至死无忘。那一别,竟成永诀!我相信,那一刻,定有一种不详的预感和一份至深的慈爱让她抛弃了曾经固守一世的坚强。 不久前的某个晚上和妻子聊天的时候,我又想到了奶奶,便把头埋在妻子的腿上,不想让她看到。可是儿子突然推了推我,问道:“爸爸,你在干什么呢?”“爸爸想爸爸的奶奶了”,我边说边微微抬起头来。“哦”,儿子又说:“我也想我的奶奶了。”“你的奶奶在哪里呀?”儿子稚嫩的声音让我突然想逗逗他,而他却一本正经地问:“我的奶奶在中国,爸爸,你的奶奶呢?”我心里又一沉,只得扭过脸去:“爸爸的奶奶在天国......” 我真是无法再写了,就用一首赞美她的诗来祭奠她的在天之灵吧。 少年为奴甘澹泊, 老来宁愿守清贫; 人生幻似如春梦, 寒来暑往年复年。 我的带婆 带婆是我用家乡话对她的称呼,即带我长大的婆婆,她从我两个月开始来到我家和我爸爸、妈妈、奶奶一起抚养我,直到我七岁快升小学二年级那年离我而去,整整七年,那年她七十二岁。带婆是个苦命的人,并无子嗣,有个婆家的侄子,亦不孝顺,因此她才会来到我家,而我父母和奶奶白天都要上班,她的到来倒着实帮了大忙。我们亲如一家人,特别是我开始懂事后更是和她亲密无间,那时她在我心中的地位和我亲奶奶全无二致,我父母对她也是敬重有加,和乐融融。 记忆中幼年的许多都已变得模糊了,只记得一些她喂我吃东西的片段,她在巷子里呼喊着我的名字叫我吃饭的情景,还有在我从幼儿园偷跑回家后她把我藏在窗户底下躲避老师时的“惊心动魄”。可是她走的那天我却一直记忆犹新,而且永远不会忘怀,实际上对于她的离去我直到今日仍感自责。那天我放学回家,父母和奶奶还未下班,一如既往,我进门之后让带婆给我开个灯,因为我够不着开关。于是她便搬了张凳子放在墙角,攀上去伸手够向拉线开关,这时我突然觉得她的动作有点古怪,却又说不出来为何。灯开了后,她似乎是沿着凳子直接滑下来的,然后就那么瘫坐在沙发上,目光呆滞,我叫她也没有回应。我吓坏了,大声呼喊,喊声惊动了邻居,而这时爸爸恰好也回来了,几个大人在她身旁忙碌着,掐人中,喂她水喝,却怎么也灌不进去,全都流在了胸前,她的嘴那时已经完全歪在一旁。我害怕极了,只能站在一旁焦急而又迷茫地看着大人们七手八脚地忙着,讨论着一些我听不太懂的话,后来我才知道带婆是脑溢血了,而脑溢血这个名词则成了我儿时知道的第一个致死的疾病,它像一个噩梦,缠绕了我好些年。不多会,大人们终于晓得了自己的无能为力,决定立即送她去医院,于是父亲扛起了带婆,冲向门口,我则紧随其后,就在经过门口的一刹,意想不到的事情发生了,已经瘫软不动的带婆不知哪来的力气,用她干瘪的手死死地抓住了门框,父亲扯不动,其他的大人们也跑上前一起帮忙,企图掰开她的手指,可她的手指却如精钢铁钳一般夹在门框之上,任凭拉扯。我目瞪口呆地看着这一幕,继而发现带婆的眼睛正注视着我,充满了慈爱和不舍,嘴里还不断发出咕噜咕噜的声音,我终于知道,她是舍不得我,也舍不得这个家,大人们也意识到了,她正用回光返照的气力拼死一搏!他们开始劝慰她,说她会好起来的,说我会在家等她的......不知是她的力气已尽,还是人多力量大,她的手终于松开了,父亲赶紧将她放到邻居早已推来并铺上了棉被的板车上,向医院奔去。从此,她离开了我,离开了家,再也没有回来。 当后来得知带婆已离世时,我才从惊愕中缓过神来,接着便是无休止地嚎哭,哭了不知道多久。那是我有生以来的第一次受到亲人去世的打击,直到很大了还是一想到她就落泪,遏止不住。然而,时间总能无情地冲淡一切,不记得从哪天开始,或许是上大学以后吧,我即使想到带婆,也多半只会细细回味孩提时有她的岁月,却不再因此而轻易流泪了。 我们把她葬在了她先夫身旁,一处唤作牛头山的所在。有一年清明随父母去给她老人家上坟,莫名其妙地在山腰迷失了方向,踌躇间一对粉黄的蝴蝶忽地从草丛中跃然而出,在我们身前相互嬉戏,上下翻飞,颇为诱人。我们不知不觉地随着它们一路往山中走去,恍惚间便停在了一处坟茔之前,赫然便是带婆和她先夫的墓穴了,再看时,那对蝴蝶却早已不知去向。我暗暗相信,是她,还在记挂着我。离乡背井这么多年,我再也没有去给带婆上过坟,实为不孝。不知道上苍是否已经补偿给她了一个幸福的来世,或许,她已能在世界的某个地方享受生活了吧。无论如何,下次回国定要去她的坟前祭拜。而此时清明,我便只能给她献上一份衷心的遥祭了。 我的岳父 前年的清明我正式开博,并以一篇《又是一年清明时》祭奠了我的岳父-一位了不起的卫星科学家。由于种种原因我和岳父虽常常通话,却从未真正见面,只有过一次短暂的网络视频,因此这份遗憾注定要伴随我一生了。而对于岳父来说,这份遗憾应该更加增强了他对这个世界最后的留恋吧,所幸,妻子陪在了他的身旁。也许同时科研人员的关系,我和岳父之间有种天然的亲切感,加上这些年来妻子不断向我讲述着关于岳父的大小往事,我仿佛觉得和他其实早已相识。我时常会想,如果他还在的话,定会欣喜于我研究中的各种发现,会在我处于低潮的时候给我鼓励,也会热情投入地听我讲述一些理论物理中的问题,甚至和我一起游目骋怀,谈天说地。然而幻想的美丽总敌不过现实的残酷。记得妻子是在岳父去世半年后怀孕的,如果岳父能够熬到那一刻或是更晚些,能见到新生外孙的可爱模样,将会是怎样的一种快乐和满足呢? 岳父这样的科学家,给国家的只有奉献,却享受不到良好的工作条件和待遇,经年累月,长寿几无可能,他们所里甚至还有许多英年早逝的研究人员。再看看我现在所处的研究条件,真可谓是天壤之别,所以更应该加倍努力才是啊。我的父亲倒是和我岳父交往过,因而对他比较了解,也有一定的感性认识,那么就再一次用父亲给我岳父撰写的挽联来告慰天堂中的他吧: 魂系太空,同步眷瞰苍茫大地,君去矣! 名垂青史,驻磁遥恸冷暖人寰,你在乎? 钟老师 钟老师是我的恩师,曾在大学里教授我《模拟电路》和《数字电路》,他兢兢业业的奉献精神、严谨的教研态度和谆谆教诲都对我影响极深。在我出国的三年前他仅因感冒而被无良的校医院误诊,以至心衰和肾衰并发,于我出国后不久在胸水、腹水的痛苦中去世,到现在已经七年了。七年来,我可敬的师母一个人孤单地承受着,但她却告诉我,她其实并不孤独,因为她总能感到钟老师仍旧陪在她的身旁。每次和她通话,她都要和我说好多好多关于他们的故事,说着说着便抽泣起来,直到今年春节依旧如此。我还年轻,还未能经历长达数十年的夫妻生活,但我相信,总有一种感情,刻骨铭心,总有一种爱恋,至死不渝。那年,我是在钟老师去世几乎半年后才得知噩耗的,那是个难熬的午夜,无法入眠,脑海中除了回忆还是回忆,便即坐起写下了一篇《悼恩师》。今天又是清明,就让我用所作悼文的引言来祭奠恩师的在天之灵吧。 悼恩师 昨夜忽闻恩师钟诗勤已于旧历年底猝然辞世,震惊、悲痛郁积于胸,无法排遣。想到恩师离去前还期望能读到我的只言片语,看到我在美国的相片,心中更是充满内疚和悔恨,我的惰性,又一次使我犯了无法原谅的错误。 惊闻噩耗,痛心之至;呜呼恩师,盍然长逝。愧我无信,半载方知;空空我心,惟余悲思。人虽已非,往事历历;谆谆教诲,铭记于斯。怜我师母,倾其全力;命运使然,回天乏计。切切节哀,惜重身体;看我明日,定不辱师。 慎终追远是华夏的优良传统,愿逝者安息! 愿亲人常在,好人平安!

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  • Ling Bao

    Hi Yidun,

    just pass­ing by to say hi. How is life in Japan? Just real­ized, have you changed your research area?

    Best,
    Ling

    • admin

      Hi Ling,
      How' s going? Life in Japan is fine but the weather is ter­ri­ble. I would say I am broad­en­ing my research area. :) Btw, I just came back from a visit at the MPI at Golm. My friend Muxin men­tioned you about your visit there last year.

  • Can I link up to this, from my own page? I'm plan­ning to col­lect as many sources of infor­ma­tion and facts as i am able.

  • 但是看你在分析布里渊谱么:)

  • ywan

    Sawyer,

    我没有在什么公司做过光纤,你可能搞错了。国内哪些公司做光纤传感比较好呢?

    Best,
    Yidun

  • 我现在算是做工程,或者说做市场的
    研发工作也就指点一下,但是研发的产品都是很初级的那些个
    我算是在BOTDR/A方面经验很丰富了
    似乎你所在的公司有一款激光器就是供给加拿大的一家BOTDA产品商的
    没说错吧:)
    msn: sawyerge@​hotmail.​com

  • ywan

    葛捷 你好!

    谢谢!光纤传感是我硕士时的研究方向,现在已经都忘得七七八八了,呵呵。你主要是做哪一方面?理论还是实验?

    再聊

  • 万兄,你好:
    我叫葛捷。现在从事光纤传感工作,偶然搜索到你的博客提到了布里渊散射的技术和系统,很感兴趣。不知道有没有机会能够和你多交流一些这方面的内容。等候佳音。
    葛捷

  • ywan

    Hi Isabeau,

    Sorry that you mes­sage was fil­tered into spam for some rea­son!  But thanks for remind­ing me of that Chanda has a blog. I didn't even know she has had one since last Oct. and she links to my blog on hers. I'm link­ing her blog right away.

    Btw, 同志这个词现在已经被毁掉了,所以已经不可随便用了。如果你还在学中文,这个可得知道。

  • 喂,同志, 你该放一个往Chanda的blog的link在你的blog上。 http://​dis​or​dered​cos​mos​.blogspot​.com/

  • ywan

    Carol,

    Could you be more specific?

  • carol

    Hey, just won­der­ing, if you can give me some sug­ges­tions to trans­late sci­en­tific arti­cles. Thanks

  • ywan

    Hi Vivian,

    谢谢,这是我的荣幸!但不知中文版所指何为,部分内容又是哪些?因此文所述乃我进入理论物理之经历,有一定逻辑结构,若取部分恐有失我本意。方便的话,可否通过电邮进一步商榷?可发信至 ywan@​wanyidun.​com

    顺颂 编安!

  • Vivian

    Hello!
    I am an edi­tor of Focus, a sci­ence mag­a­zine pub­lished by Ber­tels­mann in China. We find your arti­cle "Why did I become a sci­en­tist? " very inter­est­ing, and would like to put the Chi­nese ver­sion of some part on our May edi­tion. It is our honor to use your arti­cle, and we are just won­der­ing if that is OK for you.
    Best regards

  • hi,yidun:
    wel­come to my site,http://lelandoyang.wordpress.com/
    will you be pleased to add my link to your roll?
    thank you
     

  • ywan

    Hi Qiuhua,

    Thanks for your mes­sage! I might tell Lee that my expe­ri­ence brought him a new fan.Smiley

    I have a sug­ges­tion, if you still want to do physics and are cur­rently enrolled in some US uni­ver­sity. First, take the GRE sub­ject test on physics. Sec­ond, talk to some pro­fes­sors you are inter­ested directly and try to impress them by your thoughts and ideas about their research areas, in par­tic­u­lar their projects. If one of the pro­fes­sors you talk to would like to accept you and your GRE is accept­able, you are done. Even if the pro­fes­sors you talk to would not be able to take you, they might write good rec­om­men­da­tion let­ters for you, which are essen­tial for you to be admit­ted by any grad­u­ate pro­gram in physics.

    Good luck!

    Hi Jiao He,

    Thanks! Sci​ence​.cn is a very nice site! I will come by often for sure.

    Best regards!

  • Qiuhua Zheng

    Hi Yidun, It is a shame that it is hard for tal­ented for­eign­ers to study the­o­ret­i­cal physics in U.S. To some degree Smolin is one the best pro­fes­sors who can pick up a real future physi­cist! Unfor­tu­nately this kind of pro­fes­sors are very rare!! Although I don't like Quan­tum loop grav­ity but I will be Smolin's fan from today!!I, like you, thought I would be a great the­o­rist but there was no entries for me, unfor­tu­nately. Good luck to you! 

  • hi, Mr. Wan,
    I like your site a lot.
    I am an edi­tor for http://​www​.sci​encenet​.cn. It is a new por­tal that aims to serve the Chi­nese sci­ence com­mu­nity around the world. We have news, forum, and blog chan­nels, etc. You are wel­come to check it out or even start your blog.
    We just trans­lated an arti­cle about Canada's new budget. The link is http://​www​.sci​encenet​.cn/​h​t​m​l​/​s​h​o​w​n​e​w​s​.​a​s​p​x​?​i​d​=​1​7​5​316

  • ywan

    Hi Rita,

    谢谢!欢迎常来!

  • Rita

    Hey, there. Quite like your crit­i­cal think­ing. Glad that you share it. Thanks.

  • Hey,

    What is it with girls fighting?

    Big­Mike

    gross​-videos​.com

  • leland oyang

    hi,ywan:
    i am a chi­nese stu­dent in the under­grats phys math com­bined program.

  • ywan

    leland oyang :

    Thanks for your mes­sage! Just drop by any­time dur­ing your visit at PI. My office is 415.

    Btw, are you Chi­nese? I guess so, since you were able to read Limiao's blog.

    Take care,

    Yidun

  • leland oyang

    hello!
    i found the link to your fan­tas­tic blog both on lim​iao​.net and cos­mic vari­ance,
    yesterday,i attended pro­fes­sor cliff burgess's lec­ture on string theory,who is a mem­ber in the PI.
    surprisingly,i found you are in PI water­loo too.
    great to see your blog.
    cur­rently i am in the u of manitoba,and i will be trans­fer­ing to mcmas­ter univ at hamil­ton this fall.
    if some day i drop in PI,hope i can have a meet with you.
    all best wishes
    leland

  • RUI

    居然在这么多年后看到你和你的成就,真是个不错的新年。祝好!

  • my dear bro., i wrote you let­ters, some arti­cles attached, go check it when u r free~thx
    by the way, merry christ­mas and happy new year, MY BRO. AND SIS­TER IN LAW AND DEAR CUTIE NEPHEW, any idea enjoy­ing your­selves?
    ALL THE BEST~

  • Yidun

    Same wishes to you, my brother!

  • chambers

    祝哥哥嫂子还有侄子中秋节快乐~~~hehe

  • Yidun

    Pen­rose talked about Twistors in his first talk, which is part of a work­shop. In the col­lo­quium, he talked about his ideas of pre-big bang theory.

  • abao

    pen­rose 在pi主要讲了什么啊。
    我觉得文小刚的工作与smolin标准模型的工作思想上应该是一样的。能否在里面发现生长点呢?
     

  • 我给你发了封邮件!希望你收到了

  • the exam's com­ing right soon, con­tact me when you're free,still a lot of ques­tions to ask~waiting

  • it's been long i didn't surf inter­net. this night i come here due to some impor­tant file in my mail­box, on large part a great store. lol, any­way, it's time i took the exam, the kinda excited mood is mixed with some gra­tu­itous hor­ror. any­way, i will send you a let­ter com­pris­ing one of my GRE writ­ing, it's just a prac­tise, not good, thus, wish you can give me some advice on it.

  • abao

    已经回PI了吧 呵呵

  • Yidun

    呵呵,开卷有益。

  • cheng_xu_wei

    今晚我又来了,其实我更喜欢哪些链节,别见怪!因为我觉得这差不多可以反映一个人思想和再现他的现实生活圈子,从中可以得到更多,顺便学一下英语!

  • ywan

    cheng_xu_wei:

    谢谢!欢迎常来,并多提建议!

    Yidun

  • cheng_xu_wei

    今天来逛了一下,收获满大,最近看了一下王垠的blog觉得世上能人真不少,哎今年24了希望现在觉悟还来的及!

  • ywan

    Hi Yil­ian,
     呵呵,难怪我几乎没有注意到你的留言,我还以为是我自己的。要不是我不会同时写下我的姓,可能我真的会忽略你的留言。
     如果“Yi”是你的辈分,那么我们就肯定有共同的祖先,而且不会太远。如果不是那就要研究研究了。

  • Yilian Wan

    Hi, Yidun Wan, I found that your name is quite sim­i­lar with mine. I am won­der­ing if we can trace back to a same ances­tor. Wel­come con­tact me with my email. I am in Canada.
     
    Yilian

  • ywan

    bii­boo:

    祝贺!新版面比旧的好多了,整体明朗清晰了许多。

    有个问题,我发现新版用Firefox等浏览器浏览没有问题,但是用IE的话,结构都变掉了。因为还是有很多人使用IE的,我觉得还是在编程上再下点功夫,尽量符合W3C的规范吧,你说呢?另外,新版本的载入速度对我来说慢了很多,不知道是什么原因,特别是留言板。

    如果发现新问题,我会告诉你的。谢谢你的贡献!

  • 义顿大哥,中国赛客联盟主页雏形出来了,很多功能没上,先提建议。 

  • chambers

    lol,that's pretty nice,i am going back home these days,by the way,i found my acom­mon­da­tion some days ago,Mr. Pan helped a lot it's right in your univ., lol,it's help­ing a lot,very much convenient.Now,i feel so much powerful,energetic,and confident,it's the great pas­sion for kon­wledge that is dri­ving me forthwards,which i think is the only good result of the very grad­u­at­ing design.I think it's to be a lot fun in this way.Wait for my good news,not let­ting you down again

  • ywan

    Cham­bers,

    Con­grat­u­la­tions! I sent the cheque to home. For the rest of your ques­tions, I'd like to talk to you on the phone.

    Cheere, Y.

  • chambers

    hi,there.long time no login, the grad­u­at­ing design was such a bore,the core ele­ment i used had been long out-dated,thus the para­me­ters were just missing,not even did the man­u­fac­turor know…damn.anyway,I got over it some days ago,lol,tho.i didn't get excel­lent b'coz my out­come wave just wasn't that accurate,which mainly resulted from the para­me­ters that i made up,which means that they just couldn't be that accurate.I got only Good,the sec­ondary class~lol.
    there's a ques­tion i'd like to ask,i am right at present prepar­ing for GRE and i won­der should i care about the apply­ing let­ter after i take the tests or set com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the schools now~?
    wait­ing for your reply and wish you happy~

  • abao

    爱的一个非常的动机说引力是几何,来自于惯性质量与引力质量之相等。这样一切物体都走相同的测地线,如果初始条件一致的话。然而所有这一切来自于经典物理,我现在就在想,如果爱完全的从量子力学的层次来思考引力本质, 引力还是几何吗?我在这里仅仅给出一个小小的众所周知的事实。 如果你给定不同质量的粒子 他们的初始波函数一样,但后来在引力场中的演化却迥异。更进一步说, 在通常的微观世界,不需要进入到所谓更细致的层次诸如Planck层次,引力似乎已经不再是几何了。引力到底是什么呢?此外, 因为引力的非线性特征, 我们就更没有办法保证引力在微观层次还是爱方程. 这也是我不做LQG的原因了.

  • Hui

    Yidun,请教一个问题:你的blog的帖子中的 Print This Post页面是怎么做出来的?使用了什么插件吗?

  • nancy

    Hong­baozhang:
    Thank you very much indeed.
     
     

  • hongbaozhang

    To Nancy:
    如果可以让她在中国诸如北大学习本科四年,觉得挺好的. 这样可能使她能够发展的更加的完整. 我个人认为诸如北大可以是其学生完整. 不过看来浙江的无论是才女还是才子都是一个字: 多:)

  • nancy

    Hi there:
     Thanks for answer­ing my massege .Your com­ment on K-W and your friend's web about life in K-W really help me a lot.I just took IELTS this month and is going to sub­mit my immi­gra­tion appli­ca­tion as soon as I get my score.
    I do all this mostly for my daugh­ter who is in grade one in a senior high school ,though she insists that she will man­age every­thing for herself.Not like most girl stu­dents ,sci­ence courses are her favourit,especially math.Actually she won once the first ,twice the thirds in national math com­petions for young students.I'm glad that she is not only inter­ested in her studies,but also in play­ing piano(pass 10 grade level the year left pri­mary school),listening any kinds of music whether clas­sic or popular,sometimes she would com­pose a song for her class to per­form dur­ing her school art festival.And her paint­ing also won the national com­petion for teenagers though she sel­dom prat­ice now.
    How­ever I'm not sure about the right time for her to pur­sue a degree abroad,so I just try my best to pre­pare a bet­ter con­di­tion for my daugh­ter to choose.I sug­gest that she go as early as possible,while she wants to expe­ri­ence the national entrance exam­i­na­tion for university,and she thinks bet­ter to go abroad after grad­u­ate level .My hus­band just let us decide.Haha,I don't know who will make the decition in your fam­ily.
    If i can come to set­tle down in canada in a year or two,it will give my peace­ful life a change.Life is short and only one time,it's bet­ter to expe­ri­ence dif­fer­ent style of life.I know uni­ver­sity water­loo is fine for my daugh­ter and per­haps the most suit­able one in canada.I also read a lot about Mon­tréal where i can pick up my french again and join the beauty of french culture.All right,I have to get down to my business.see you next time.
    Thank you again for your kid­ness.
     
    nancy from zhejiang,china

  • ywan

    Hi Nancy,

    Thanks for your inter­est and kind com­pli­ment! Doubtlessly, I am flat­tered. Actu­ally, there is a whole para­graph about the K-W area in my post about PI. I am not sure if I can tell you much more. How­ever, I am try­ing. K-W is a quiet place, espe­cially after the sun­set. So if you were look­ing for­ward to any night life, you would not be able to find any­thing more than some pubs. Well, since Toronto is nearby, one might go there dur­ing week­ends. :-) Regard­ing the work­ing opporuni­ties and con­di­tions, I really don't know much. What I have been aware is that there are more oppor­tu­ni­ties and bet­ter con­di­tions here than in Toronto.

    Since the good things are always the good things, I now bring up some not-so-good aspects to my point of view of this town as follows.

    1) Only 3 out of 10 peo­ple can get fam­ily doc­tors here. That means 7/10 peo­ple need to walk in clin­ics or wait in the hor­ri­ble Emer­gency wait­ing room.

    2) Too few hos­pi­tals and doc­tors but many patients. Well, patients are always many everywhere.

    3) No big rivers or lakes, which are my favi­roites though, in town. There is a reser­voir in sub­urb, and a so-called "Grand-River", which is just a bit big­ger than a creek. :-)

    4) Tap water in this region is so hard that one has to use extra filters.

    I think these are all I can say in lim­ited time. If you are inter­ested, my friend, Lixin, has a infor­ma­tive web­page about the life in K-W. Here it is, http://molecules.uwaterloo.ca/~lzhan/kwlife.php

    I wish this helps with­out how­ever chang­ing any of your own opin­ions about K-W.

    Thanks again and good luck to you and your family!

  • nancy

    Hi,young friend:
    It's fan­tas­tic to come across your blog by chance when I was try­ing to read some­thing about the city of waterloo.I like your writ­ing about chi­nese knot very much.I never read such a beau­ti­ful english writ­ing by a chi­nese sci­ence student.The pity thing that i know noth­ing about maths and physics.
    By the way,would you please to tell me some­thing more about the liv­ing and work­ing con­di­tions in waterloo,anytime when you are free?That will be very kind of you . 
    good luck to you and your family.

  • ywan

    Zhangqi,

    语法检查有些Warning,我已经搞定了,而且在Bloglines上面测试通过了。但是你Subscribe的时候要用下面这个链接:

    ?feed=rss2

  • yidun,你的blog上的rss源似乎不能通过bloglines订阅,可能是语法有问题。

  • ^_^ 原先的描述不够全面和准确,实在对不起,现在已经按照您的已经进行修订。谢谢您的支持。期待您的站点更加精彩。
    http://​www​.wo6789​.com中国万人网

  • ywan

    Hi Dong­ping,

    Thanks a lot for your mes­sage! It is actu­ally by far the longest com­ment left on my Blog.Smiley

    You really should not be so cau­tious about what you said.Smiley This is a web Blog, but not my per­sonal diary. There­fore, it is open to any friendly and sin­cere com­ments, regard­less of whether the com­ments are com­pli­ments or crit­i­cisms, and objec­tively right or wrong.

    I would like to dis­cuss with you more about Chi­nese arts, or sim­ply arts.

  • Hi, Yidun,
    How are you today? This is the first time I try the Blog thing. It is whole new to me. If there is some­thing wrong, please for­give me.
    I have seen your seal of "QIUSUO" , which is excel­lent. One thing I am not sure about atrs(especially old time arts) is that only those that have been set­tled down through histroy can be regarded as some cer­tain kinds of arts by peo­ple in the future. I mean that very often the comtem­po­rary peo­ple dare not, or are not wise enough, to build their own arts. In other words, very gen­eral arts grow out of histroy rather than fresh soil of the present age. Unfor­tu­nately, it is gen­er­ally accepted that it is the sep­a­ra­tion, both spa­cial or tem­po­rary, who can pro­duce beauty. Well, let us go back to your seal. By excel­lent I mean two things. One is that from it we can feel the sen­ti­ments of the seal pro­ducer, your­self. I can see that you want to under­stand the nature of the world and the mean­ing or value of life as well which I can see from your prose “road” . yes, with­out the back­ground of the art pro­ducer, any­thing means noth­ing. There­fore, when we jus­tice or enjoy one piece of arts we need also to know some­thing about the art pro­ducer or the present nat­ural and human sos­ci­aty. Then comes the next thing of the art­work itself. I would like to say that I appre­ci­ate your efforts to develop fur­ther our Chi­nese arts. Much or less, your seal is short of some kind of unso­phis­ti­cated or bold style.
    Sorry. I have to take care of my daugh­ter now. If there is some­thing offen­sive, please for­give me.
    Have a good night.
    Dong­ping Qi

  • tuobaobao

    ba…ba!! I am the num­ber 99 visitor!!!

  • tuobaobao

    ba.….……ba !!!
    hao bang wuuuu!!

  • tuobaobao

    also a test

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