Friday is gone now. I have worked hard but I think there are lots of work to do. The following week will be busy. But hopefully, I can finish one by one. Anyways, the important thing is I should finish work better than expected by others.
I am a bit overwhelmed by the number of experiments and the quality of the experiments we are doing. But at the same time, I am excited to work on these projects. Finally, I am making some innovations for physics.
Next Tuesday, I have just 15 mins talk about polarized neutron scatterings, I don’t have anything to publish yet however I have learnt quite a lot in last year. If I can keep this level of commitment, I am sure I can be the best person to do that job. So I have to keep trying to do it. And I am now feeling good doing so.
I am not a smart guy. When I said I wanted to go to a lab in my 4th year of an undergraduate student, my supervisor at that time told me I should be an experimentist because you are not smart enough to do the theory. Theoretical works in physics can be done by just a few smartest theorists, but if you can do experiments with theoretical understanding, you can surely survive. So I took it. Now I realize how that advice was sound.
Innovation in science is not easy. Especially, when you are working on new science. A good theorist can do it without any instrument maybe just with paper and pen. I can certainly not. I can’t imagine I can create new physics just using my brain. However, if I do experiments, especially a lot, there is something innovative things can happen with careful observation and good preparation. If I can do a good job on this, maybe this is the time a theorist has to work on to explain the phenomena I observe. So, just trying to do something people never had done, maybe we can create new knowledge by doing trying something new. So as an experimentalist, to succeed, you have to just try to do experiments and learn from what you have observed. Then, as always, we should write papers to let everyone know what I have done.
I believe I am in a good position to innovate. So let’s do this.