The week is gone now. I was taking easy for this week because of vaccines, I didn’t expect to work hard in case the side effect of the vaccine is severe. I was lucky because I didn’t have severe symptoms after the 1st dose. It is already after 56 hours. But I heard there might be from the 2nd dose. Anyways, hope the vaccine protect me from severer COVID-19 symptom and the death.
I was writing this blog to think. Today, I listened to some Youtube videos that describe the history of the next candidate of prime minister in Japan. I didn’t know much about her but the video taught me how strong her personality is. I am very impressed. She was writing the blog for 20 years and it seems her mind is already determined. She knows what she wants to achieve. She spent 20 years preparing. Currently, Japan has 4 candidates and I don’t know much about them but she seems to be a strong candidate. As far as I understand, her first priority is to protect the people in Japan and its territory. It seems she has a strong will on the purpose. It sounds scary for some people but yeah. For this election, I don’t have the right to vote so I can’t do anything about it but anyways, it is a good time to review those 4 candidates. Everyone has a unique history, thoughts, and policies. So I can take a look at whose team I should support next election. The world is changing faster than ever. Even though Japan has problems to overcome, there are many ways we can solve them. I help them by doing what I can.
Today, after I came back from the vaccine centre, I started working in the afternoon. I started working again on revising the paper. All data and analysis are ready so I should finish up the revised manuscript in a week or so. Also, I got one review request from a physical journal, I would like to do the review for them.
For the physics, for the next paper, I am working on the frustrated magnets. I thought my original ideas were good but I spent too much on them. I spent almost 7 years finishing this. But I also find interesting findings on the way to finish the manuscript, hope the work is welcomed by the community. This work is kind of too much in detail no one has ever investigated. Some can say it is trivial and I sometimes think so but I can see the meaning to finish it. For this paper, I am working on the 120 degrees antiferromagnetic structure under the symmetry of the crystal. By using current experiment techniques, no one is unable to solve it. It is actually unsolvable. So on that paper, I actually describe how hard it is and also I provide another method which tried to solve it. But unfortunately, that can’t solve it either. Maybe it sounds bad but I will show these results on the paper. So that I can offer what I found so far in the process. Hope some people find something interesting from it to attack another problem.
This is what I do. I solve problems in physics. If the problem is unsolvable, I will try to find out why we cannot. I found it interesting in doing so. I need this kind of feeling. That motivates me. I want to solve problems that no one has ever solved. From that, I can also go further. Also after I got tenure, I decided to solve problems in important problems in physics, which might take more than 10 years or so. It is because, by working on each paper or problem, we are kind of specialized in some topics. It is good when we think we are professionals but I should never forget the big picture in physics or science, what I have been trying to achieve by doing physiscs. For me, I am very thankful for working as a physicist, please give me more problems to solve. Solving problem actually including finishing the paper so other can see it. Anyways, I will face it with thanks.