Because I watched some sci-fi movies, I had doubts about some of the theories, so I went to see Einstein's theory of relativity, and finally found a writer who can explain physics in an easy-to-understand manner. This person is the above-mentioned B Green, A charismatic physics researcher.
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1. The glamorous Brian Greene
What is a parallel universe? Everyone has heard of it, but can't tell. How many parallel universes are there? How far away are we? Will there be another you there? How are you doing? Does time travel really exist? Can we go back to the past to the future? Why haven't I heard about people from the future in my life? All the questions you have about your sci-fi work will be answered in the charismatic and humorous commentary of theoretical physicist B Green.
After watching the documentary "The Universe Beyond Imagination" by Bryan Green for two consecutive days, I suddenly became very interested in this elegant and charming physicist, and wanted to introduce this charming physicist to everyone.
When it comes to Bryan Green, many friends who are interested in physics and astronomy must be familiar with it. He is also a very famous best-selling author in the United States. The reason for his best-selling is that he, like Hawking, is devoted to the writing of popular science books. , even because of his elegant and charming appearance, he was also invited to shoot TV series and movies. If he is a writer and an actor, it would be a big mistake. He is actually a powerful research scholar, a Ph.D. from Oxford University, and Cornell. University, Columbia Department of Physics Professor.
God not only gave him a very charming appearance, but also gave him a wise brain, a physicist comparable to Hawking, and a popular science book author devoted to the cause of popular science. His work "The Strings of the Universe" won the Royal Society Science Book Award and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of "The Structure of Space, Time and Reality in the Universe" and "The Hidden Universe: What Are Parallel Universes?" book.
After reading it, do you feel that you are handsome and talented? But looking at the physicists in Green's documentary, I feel that they are all responsible for their looks. Are men who study physics more handsome? Or did you deliberately choose a good-looking physicist when making a documentary? Express deep doubt.
2. Brian Greene's Wife
Of course the wife of such a powerful and charismatic physicist would not be mediocre. Tracy Day is a television producer for ABC, a 4-time Emmy winner for News & Documentary, and a media veteran who has produced documentaries, feature films and live broadcasts for a number of television outlets.
The idea of holding a science and technology festival was born from the combination of two powerful characters. Brian Green and his wife, Tracy Day, applied to launch the World Technology Festival, which has become a grand event in the technology world. Every year at the end of May, New York will gather a large number of philosophers, musicians, physicists, and acrobatics and magic. Teachers and others, for 5 days, dedicated performances, debates and parties for the citizens of New York, and the annual World Science and Technology Festival has become a landmark of science and culture in New York City.
The number of career shifts in physics is staggering, and the results of physics research continue to impact our world today. The richness of practitioners in the field of physics also makes others daunted. Generally, the common ones will be jobs in the fields of finance, navigation and aviation, computers, etc. For example, Leonard in "The Big Bang Theory" works in the field of navigation; Franklin is not only the person who invented the law of conservation of electric charge, but also an outstanding diplomat; Hawking Also engaged in astronomy, cosmology, philosophy research; and Newton's mechanics research has become the basis of modern engineering.
3. Physicists on Wall Street
In addition to the familiar ones in the textbooks, the physics celebrities we know are also some Wall Street financial tycoons who are also born in the physics field. These people hold important positions in financial institutions such as Citi, Morgan, Deutsche, and Barclays. Twenty of them came from mathematics and statistics majors, and the field that first proposed the theory of probability was the field of physics. In the study of particle science, probability theory was proposed.
Those extremely complex trading models and risk management models originated from research in the field of physics and mathematics.
A Wall Street quant once said: "If you don't have a doctoral or master's degree in QUANT (quants: quantitative financiers with rigorous scientific training) in computational finance, physics, engineering, or statistics, it's almost impossible to rank at the top. quant trading company to find a job.”
People with a background in physics are more capable of mathematics and computers than those with a background in economics, and have certain advantages in logical thinking and data analysis. Learning physics requires excellent logical thinking and data analysis ability, in order to do experiments to verify those classics. Physical theories and formulas. Because the movement of asset prices is similar to the motion of objects studied by physicists, physicists who are good at modeling and relatively short of money often turn to Wall Street. There is a book called "The Physics of Wall Street", which introduces many people in the field of physics who influence financial investment.
For example, Emmanuel Neulderman of Goldman Sachs, who was born in high-energy experimental physics, was a disciple of physics giants such as Einstein and Schrödinger. He and his team of Chinese analysts, traders, and fund managers participated in the Together, they created numerous financial transaction models that have a profound impact today.
In any field, behind the pursuit of scientific laws, there is hidden the purpose of human beings to seek the truth of things, to predict the future, and to control the future. And some experimental tests of physics, ways of thinking, etc. are the results of human thinking and civilization.
Physicists and mathematicians have tried to apply the laws they mastered to the capital market, and with great success, the risk management and hedging of price changes, interest rate changes, and stock price fluctuations used in the financial industry today have produced a large number of Sophisticated safe-haven financial products have their roots in physics. And thus derived a name - Wall Street physicists.
4. Bringing profound and difficult physics to the public
If it is said that the development of technology such as electronic equipment and computers in today's society is inseparable from the contribution of physics, and the establishment of Wall Street's financial model by physicists, then Brian Green is an actor from the field of physics. One of the characters who popularized the foundation of physics to the public, another well-known physicist is of course Hawking. Hawking's popular science works "A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes", "The Universe in a Nutshell" and its simple The text answers to the public about the origin and destination of black holes and the universe.
In the 3 episodes of "The Elegant Universe" and 4 episodes of "The Structure of the Universe" shot by Bryan Green, Zhongdu has demonstrated his performance as a physicist very well, using those profound concepts of physics with bread Slices, taxi rides, etc. are explained, so that the public can easily understand these difficult physics knowledge.
In addition to his contributions to physics, Brian Greene also made a cameo appearance with Hawking in episode 20 of the fourth season of The Big Bang Theory to explain his new book "Hidden Reality" to the audience, in which he was ridiculed by Sheldon as Ridiculous cross talk, but then Sheldon said that he was a physicist he liked very much; he played himself in "Black Hole Frequency", cameo roles in the movies "Magic Toy Box" and "Maze", and he wrote science fiction books "Icarus at the Edge of Time" was made into a movie.
It can be seen that many well-known physicists in the United States can play some roles in the public drama to promote their views, but our country really does not do enough in this regard, and there are very few well-known real professors known to the general public.
In our society, both adults and children like entertainment figures such as celebrities, Internet celebrities, and directors. If anyone can name some people who are academic and scientific, there is a very small probability. Should we advocate that our professors can often give speeches to the general public, and that our professors can also become "Internet celebrities" for the general public to worship? Instead of letting some fake professors and fake scholars pretend to be real scholars in the society, it will destroy the credibility and image of the word scholar professor in the hearts of the public.
5. Bryan Green's Accomplishments
Bryan Green's "Strings of the Universe" has been nominated for three Emmys, awarded by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and must be broadcast to 51% of the nation's audience. , and its selection team is also composed of professionals in the industry. The voting method has absolute professional authority. This is an award that can be recognized by peers. In the end, this documentary won the Peabody Award, which is the oldest and most authoritative award in the global radio and television media industry.
And his greatest achievement is not the making of documentaries, nor the author of popular science books, but the research of physics. He is a member of the research team in "string theory", the possible ultimate theory of cosmology.
There is a kind of dark matter in the universe, which is also mentioned in Hawking's "A Brief History of Time", so what is this dark energy? No physicist knows the answer, physicists, astronomers, cosmologists, etc. have given it various names, such as "antigravity", "invisible matter", "invisible particles", "cosmological constant" etc. Dark matter is still a theoretically proposed invisible matter that may exist in the universe. There is no exact instrument that can detect its existence, but all research has proved its existence.
However, the smooth space-time of general relativity and the violent quantum fluctuations of space-time in the microcosm contradict each other. The general theory of relativity, which describes the macroscopic gravity, and the quantum mechanics of the microscopic world are fundamentally in conflict, which means that neither of them can be correct, and neither of them can be completely described. world.
The whole goal of fundamental physics is to keep things simple, the simpler the better. A single law can encompass different types of physical phenomena. This is Einstein's dream of a grand unified theory. String theory proposes that everything that makes up the world is made up of the same element—an unimaginably small filament that vibrates with energy, called a string.
Seeing this, do you feel that physics is similar to science fiction, fantasy, and fairy tales? Can we also think that the concept of our ancestors is correct, that the basic elements of the world are the five elements? A bit mysterious and mysterious.
String theory holds that the different vibrations and motions of strings produce elementary particles, and energy and matter can be transformed. Elementary particles are composed of "energy lines" in two-dimensional space, and superstring theory can solve problems related to black holes. Deeper string theory also includes higher-dimensional space and even parallel universes.
Green's contribution to the popularization of string theory. Green said: "When you encounter abstract concepts, you need more ways to understand them. If you stick to one path, your breakthrough in research will be affected, and different ideas will often discover new things."
Green's daily acting classes in college made him the host of PBS's NOVA series. And his knowledge of physics made him a professor of physics at Columbia University. He explained physics knowledge to the public in easy-to-understand language, which promoted the advancement of metaphysical theory.
This elegant and charming physicist, who is also an excellent teacher, an author of science popularization of physics, and a host, can be described as an alternative among physicists, but we will not feel too much about the appearance of any shocking big man among physicists. surprise! After all, this subject is so prone to other titles. Maybe one day Green will be crowned with titles such as philosophers, novelists, and filmmakers. After all, he has already written a novel and made a movie. It's been a few, hasn't it?
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