Picture : Beautiful Christmas decoration on neighbor’s house.
I have many things I want to write. I want to write about Thanksgiving journey to Philadelphia, NYC, and Boston. I want to write physics I am working on. I want to write about my thinking about religion and science. I have been busy for this year, but, finally, I am resting. I will write one by one.
Everything and everyone in the U.S. are now in holiday mode. I ran with our group yesterday, we went to see illumination of Christmas decoration in our town. These are so beautiful; it is far from my description. I took a lot of pictures, but I will show you one here. Maybe, I will show more on Facebook later. Everyone is enjoying this holiday, including me. I am going to go theater today to watch the play ‘Christmas Carol’. I am looking forward to it.
Let me start physics. I am currently working on one of project. I cannot what, but my task is to solve the magnetic structure of kind of old system. The more I worked on this, it became curiouser and curiouser. This system had been studied a lot around later 1970’s, so many people had worked on this system. But still people study now. Yes, this is actually challenging. But we have developed theory and new points of view. Let’s try again.
To be honest, so far, every idea from my boss and me had failed. This is not easy. But I learned a lot of things during the analysis. And, I found several mistakes on the old papers. Also, I am thinking why these smart people had not solved this problem, even made mistakes? I have still several ideas to try, and I would be the only person who is trying to solve this problem now. And I also need more data to support my hypothesis. I would like to work on also in 2014. It will be fun to do the experiments and keeping analyses. Yes, I am enjoying my job.
I am thinking of writing a lot during holiday. I wanted to write but I was busy. Now, I can spare sometime to write what I am thinking. Firstly, I would love to write about how to learn English, especially for around 30’s. Around 30’s is my point. I am not young like undergraduate or graduate student. I went to the private university in Tokyo, I got a Ph.D in science there, I came here in the U.S. As you know, to learn something new, sports, language, music, or whatever, the older you got the harder you learn. That is hard story?? I have also thought so. But, the harder you get, the harder you lose is also true. The research shows that the person learns foreign languages even when he got older, whose brain is more activated, while bilinguals who learn 2nd language simultaneously did not show this symptom. This is because, I believe, the older person has to or can learn systematically. For the older person, to learn something new is not his first experience. We can learn efficiently. We have to make up for the natural talent by using experiences. I will write about this later.
Thank you for reading, have good holidays everyone!