"For the Orientals, self and the world are one and the same thing. Orientals almost unconsciously believe that there is a natural harmony between man and nature. ”

"The main characteristic and merit of ancient Chinese culture is to intuitively grasp the whole, and this way of thinking is of great significance for the progress of science. It would be wrong to think that intuition is useless in mathematics and the natural sciences. ”

Let us assume that a new contradiction has arisen between the new theory and those facts that the old theory has hitherto been able to explain. In this case, the only way is to intuitively grasp the whole and see what is right. In other words, what is more important here is not so much the eradication of contradictions as the discovery of harmony in the whole. ”

"It's not enough to intuitively grasp the whole. Only when something new, which has always been overlooked, emerges, can there be real creation. ”

Here, a related issue is the so-called question of imagination. By supplementing what he already has in mind what he already has, he derives a complete whole, and if he applies his imagination in every different way, he will finally attain true understanding. ”

"The way intuition and imagination develop on their own. One of the most important is analogy. This is an area that the Chinese people have been very good at since ancient times. The oldest form of representational analogy is parable. I particularly like Zhuangzi: his works are full of metaphors and paradoxes, and the most fascinating thing about them is the vast world full of fantasy that these metaphors and paradoxes reveal before me. ”

"Four or five years ago, one day, when I was thinking about elementary particles, I suddenly remembered a passage from Zhuangzi, which is found in the last part of the inner part of Zhuangzi, which is now roughly translated as follows:

"The emperor in the south is called Yu, the emperor in the north is called Hu, and the emperor in the center is called Chaos. ”

"Once two emperors, the South and the North, visited the territory of Chaos, and met with Chaos. Chaos welcomed them warmly. They discussed how they could show their gratitude. They said, 'All people have seven orifices — two eyes, two ears, a mouth and two nostrils — and they rely on these seven orifices to see, hear, eat, and breathe, but this one is different, with a bare face, without seven orifices.' He must have thought it was awkward not to have seven tricks. So, to show our appreciation, we might as well give him a few tips. So they chiseled a new trick every day for Chaos and on the seventh day Chaos died. ”

"Why did I think of this parable?"

"I've been studying elementary physics for many years, and I've discovered more than 30 different elementary particles, each of which poses some kind of enigmatic problem. When this happens, we have to take a step closer and think about what's behind the particles. We want to reach the most basic form of matter, but it would be embarrassing to prove that there are more than thirty different forms of matter, and it is more likely that the most basic thing in all things has no fixed form and does not correspond to any elementary particle as we know it today. It may be something that has the possibility of differentiating into all kinds of elementary particles, but in fact has not yet differentiated. In the usual words, this kind of thing may be a kind of 'chaos'. It is when I consider the problem along these lines that I am reminded of the parable of Zhuangzi. ”

Everyone grinned, studying basic physics for many years......

Unless Chu Hao has been studying basic physics since his mother's womb, it will not be called many years.

However, whoever let the family win the Nobel Prize in Physics, it will be many years, and you are justified.

"In the context of ancient Chinese culture, I entered the world of modern science, which is based on the heritage of ancient Greece. Since then, there has been one question that has haunted me from time to time, and still haunts me. The question is, 'Why did science reach the modern level as a result of its foundation in Greece and not in any other place?' I couldn't help but ask myself the question that Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi's philosophies on nature and life were not only profound, but also rational and humane. ”

"Isn't it precisely because of the ideas that ancient China produced that she was able to see the future from afar that these ideas did not give rise to scientific civilization like those ideas of ancient Greece?"

In other words, according to the mature thinking of ancient China, mankind does not need the kind of science and technology of the West that would lead to the destruction of the foundation of human existence. ”

"There is nothing wrong with this in my opinion, and even to think that those ideas are unusually modern in my eyes today, and this way of thinking has been gradually established in my heart more and more firmly. ”

"When we consider the future, there is certainly no reason to think that Greek thought should remain the only source of scientific thought. It may be true that the ancient Chinese philosophers did not produce pure science. However, we cannot think that this will continue to be the case in the future. ”

After speaking, looking at the people below who were deep in thought, Chu Hao smiled.

This is what he wants to say, and the above meanings actually come from a book written by Hideki Yukawa, the first Nobel laureate in physics in Togashi.

In modern science, the role played by Huaxia, even Eastern philosophy, and Eastern thought is too small and too small.

Is this because the Chinese philosophers have not studied all things in the world and human thinking is not deep enough?

Apparently not.

It's just that modern science was born in the West by chance.

Chu Hao didn't mean that he wanted the East and the West to make a big deal.

All he thought was that he hoped that Eastern philosophy could be more integrated into modern science and add luster to the scientific cause of human society.

After a long time, everyone clapped their hands, and the sound was not eager, but it was enough to show that they were already thinking about what Chu Hao said, modern science, does it need the oriental way of solving the problem.

They really have to admit at this moment that Chu Hao still has two brushes, at least his thinking about Eastern philosophy is something that the mainstream scientific community has not thought about today, which is a great supplement to the way the scientific community thinks now.

Thinking of this, everyone's gaze at Chu Hao suddenly changed, perhaps it was precisely because of such a unique way of thinking that Chu Hao could become the youngest Nobel Prize winner in the world.

This is the magic of Eastern philosophy!