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我今天学习日本刀。我在写中子散射提议。 明天我要提交。我们选择二个日本刀。沖縄博物馆给我们用。我不明白谁创建两个都。我希望我们的实验揭示。

I have started a new project to study Japanese swords by using neutron scattering techniques. Neutron scattering is my expertise but I have to earn new skills to study Japanese swords. I am having difficulty. It is difficult to start something new scientific project. The part of the problem is also I am not an expert on Japanese swords. It is challenging but I would like to try. I will keep writing about this here. I am writing two experimental proposals to perform experiments in Japan later this year or early 2022.

I don’t have time to write today but I will keep writing here every day. Tomorrow, I will be writing in Chinese.

とにかく書いていくと決めてからもう3日ほど経つのかな。日本語、英語、中国語の順で書いていくが、中国語は本当に初心者なので勉強みたいなものかな。アウトプットを意識できるから中国語学習にも身が入る。ただしアプトプットしていくことによりインプットの質も上がるし、頭の中が整理される。

まずは書き始めていることとしてはとにかく仕事でのアウトプット。論文は最も重要なものとして大事だが、我々はプロポーザルも書き続けなければならない。グラントのプロポーザルや実験のプロポーザルとにかくどんどん書いていく。短くともたくさんアウトプットして一つの作品として残していく。それに対してコメントやレビューが付くことは問題ないし、それから真摯に学んでいけばよろしい。とにかく作品として残すこと。

現在２つのプロポーザルを日本のJ-PARC（大強度陽子加速器）に書いている。一つは日本刀のプロジェクトでもう一つはフラストレート磁性体における散漫散乱の研究。日本刀のプロジェクトは初めて実験を申請するので正直大変なことばかり。実験の細かいところかが書けない。まあ細かいところをつめられないのは専門分野でも同じだが。プロポーザルも論文もたくさん書くしかない。14日が締め切り。締め切り大切だな。論文は締め切りが無いからなかなか厳しいが、7月までには論文を2本投稿したい。

次に投資だが、投資は長期投資でやっているつもりだがなかなか短期の成果も気になる。投資については学ぶことがたくさんあるし、勉強したいことがたくさんある。オーストラリアの個別株に投資していくは楽しいがそろそろインデックスのETFに資金を移していくべきか。金や銀の価格が戻ってきて嬉しいがまだ不安定だ。石炭の価格があがっているが石炭鉱山株があがってこない。少し不気味に感じる。REIT株は今のところ伸びてきている。オーストラリア経済全体や世界経済などや個別株などについては考え方をまとめいってもいいかもしれない。それをここに書いたほうが勉強になる。そうだね。どうせ投資は10年20年としていく。ポートフォリオも少しづつ強くなっていくと想像できる。最初のころのミスはでかいが少しずつでもね。

明日は英語で書くが。明日はキャンベラに旅行に行った時のことでも書こうかな。これから何を書くか。書いていけばいくほどテーマは思いつくはずが。哲学でも読書でも研究でも考えていることを書いていけばよいし。なにかまとめたくなることも出てくるでしょう。

今週はまた実験を始めている。中性子散乱実験でHf酸化物を測定しているが、Hfが中性子吸収するのか？フォノンが見えない。室温での測定だから実験は簡単化と思っていたがそうでもないな。ただデータが出続けることはよいこと。今週は自分の実験で来週は他の担当者の実験。来週には集中して論文を仕上げていきたい。再来週からは偏極実験2つにそのあとさらにフォノンの実験がありちょっと大変そうだが。

中性子散乱実験特に3軸分光器については自分は専門であるし、実験も誰よりもやっているしそのような環境にある。これについてはもう少し学びを増やしていかないともったいないとそう思うようになってきた。プロポーザルなども見直しこれまでにやられた実験なども復習そしてフォローアップしていこう。装置とそのまわりの科学者のネットワークも大事。さらに今は雑誌のEditorial Board Memberなのでそれを雑誌にフィードバックしていくことによりサイエンスに貢献できるように。とにかく自分の論文はきちんと書かなくてはならない。

我写博客这个网页。我会写我的思维方式。我是物理学者。我学磁的物理。我的专业是中子散射。我管理三轴光谱仪。现在我在澳大利亚。我是日本人所以我说话日语和英语。我喜欢读书和跑步。我会写我的思维方式来练习中文。

I wrote this end of 2020… The year 2020 has passed so fast, now we are at the end of the year. Since international travel is not allowed, I can’t go back to Japan. So, I decided to go to Adelaide, SA from Sydney, NSW. In NSW, suddenly in the 18th, we got about 30 new cases in Northern Beach. I am worried if we have to cancel the trip to Adelaide. But anyhow, we could manage it.

Before travelling to SA from NSW, I submitted a travel request beforehand online. It had been approved. At the airport, we got a short interview, finally, we are approved to enter the SA state. It took about $30 from the airport to the city centre by taxi. Adelaide is a quite compact city. On the first night, I went to a Korean place in MAY Q Korean Restaurant & Bar. It was quite nice. Great food and nice makkoli. I like drinking makkoli I should drink more often.

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On the 2nd day at Adelaide. We went to Adelaide Central Market in the morning. The food was great. I could eat that every morning. There were not many people there so it was kind of sad. But I could see many local fruits, nuts, pieces of bread, and so on. It was enjoyable. The place is easy to access and worth visiting. I remember now the banana I bought from one of the stores was very expensive but it was tasty. For a traveller, going to the market like this is great. We can find inexpensive food and we can eat during the trip. That saves a lot of money if we keep going travelling instead of having dinner at a fancy restaurant. It is up to the traveller’s choice, but I am not foody much. The food at the local market is usually good enough and fresh enough. At least I will buy breakfasts during the trip.

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In the afternoon, we went to South Australian Museum. The place is free entry. Can you believe it? It was worth visiting. In addition, we can have a free tour! Our curator spent an hour explaining the collection they have. The curator helps us to understand these arts. It was very satisfying. I can’t believe it was free. I donated some money for it. The collection included many parts of the world. There was the Japanese section as well. I was impressed by the work from Olafur Eliasson. He is a physicist who uses optics in art. The arts always give me another perspective on how we see the world. And also, there are aboriginal arts and Australian arts. They are all mind-blowing.

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On the 3rd day, I visited a bit on State Library of South Australia. I could not study there but I can see the most beautiful library in the world. If I could study there, that would be very productive. As long as I see, there were several people there, they look like studying. I envy people in Adelaide who can spend time there to study.

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Final day, I visited the Adelaide Botanic garden and Adelaide zoo. Both are really good. It was beautiful sunny day too. Watching nice garden and animals are very relaxing. I wish I had something similar to close to where I live. Traveling is always nice way to spend time and money. I can remember many good memories. After Covid-19, we don’t go out many of these place but I should. Even I have some thoughts I need to go through, these give me time to reflect on my life and work. Traveling and seeing something new give me a new insight.

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Overall, travelling to Adelaide was fun. In the future, I would like to travel more in Australia. I always think Australia is too many places to explore. This island of opportunity.

コロナ禍が始まってもう一年と数カ月経つのですが、一向に収まる感じはありませんね。ワクチン接種も特に日本は遅くなかなか安心できる日々は来ないです。オーストラリアはかなり落ち着いていますが、一昨日シドニーで一人感染者が出たために短い期間ですが規制が多少強化されています。

コロナのせいか年齢のせいかわかりませんが。最近モチベーションというものが湧いていませんでした。なぜだかわからないですが少なくともここ数カ月は続いてしまっていた気がしますね。これは40歳手前の典型的な悩みなのかもしれません。仕事自体は順調ですし、私生活も特に不満があるということはありません。むしろかなり恵まれていると感じています。特にコロナでは大変な状況に追い込まれた方もたくさんいたでしょうし、最近ではシドニー西部で大きな洪水もあり被害を受けられた方々にはお悔やみを申し上げたいです。

モチベーションが上がらない原因はとにかく目標が見えない。人生どこに向かっていくか大体わかってしまったという感じ。今までは困難があり努力をすることでその困難を克服してきたことがそこまで困難に感じていないということです。それは逆に言えばできることだけやってできないことに挑戦していないことでもあるかもしれません。仕事も順調ですし、やりたいことをやれてます。英語も昔は苦労していた時期もありますが、今そこまで困るという状況に追い込まれることが無いです。かといって頑張ってこれからやり直しても給料が急に上がるわけでもない。また投資も楽しく続けていますが、お金持ちになるにはまあまあ時間がかかるわけですよ。企業のリサーチもして楽しいですが、まあ月に一回の給料日に投資するくらいですから、やはり資産の伸びもゆっくりです。

そこでここからはどうしていくか。いろんな人に話してみて考えてみました。またここに書いてみてまずはどういう方向でこれから行くかを書いてクリアにしていこうかと思います。

１．物理学者として

物理学者としてはテニュア（テニュアトラックの仕事を受けて）になってから6年となりました。簡単に言うと最初の2年で仕事に慣れ、次の２年で装置を任され、最近２年で装置が安定し、装置は私の論文増産してくれるようになりました。それに加え装置を元に共同研究できることにより人脈も広がりました。一つはこの流れを強化していくことが大事であるということ。この装置から出るデータの質を上げて、さらにネットワークを広げていく準備ができたことはかなり大きいです。さらに今年は新しい雑誌Materials FuturesのEditorial Board Memberに選ばれてこれからネットワークを強化していくと同時に自分の専門分野を成長させながらこれから自分の分野を軸にほかの分野に参入していこうと思います。私個人的には中性子散乱を用いた磁性物理学を専門にしていて、特に非弾性散乱を使った磁気励起の研究が主です。これらの分野からたとえば熱電材料の研究、および圧力熱量材料の研究、そして日本刀などを中心とした文化財の中性子散乱を用いた研究、また私の装置に関しては自分が本当のエキスパートとなりさらに偏極中性子実験も私の専門分野とできるようにしていこうかと思います。自分のネットワークもきちんと再構築して大きく成長していけるように。Editorial Board Memberになったからはさらにネットワークが広がるだろう。ただ自分自身が自分の専門分野で精力的に論文を書き続けることは絶対しておきたいと思います。

２．語学

語学については私にとって英語と中国語が対象ですが、英語については慣れが来たというか毎日困るものではないので今まではたくさん本を読んで聞いていましたがそのモチベーションが全く上がらない。中国語はDuolingoで毎日15分という程度ただし150日連続でさぼらずにやっていますが、特に中国語を使うところもないのでそれ以上はまあなかなかやる気にならない。英語はこれまで本をたくさん読んできたがこれから目標というよりかは楽しみたいのであまり自分にプレッシャーを与えすぎてもいけないし。特に今は英語と日本語は特に意識をせずに使えているが両言語とも中途半端になってきている感は否めない。

３．投資

投資に関しては毎日意識しても意味がないというか勉強をして積み重ねていくことが大事。これに関しては10年や20年という単位でしっかり資本が積み重なっていけばいいだけなので、特にFIREも目指してなくてでも（まあとはいえ無視もできないが）まあお金があったほうが仕事も選びやすいので自分の今の仕事を続けたくてもいつでも辞められるっていう心持はかなりでかいよねと思う。まあ両学長の話とかを引用して五つの力。使う力、貯める力、稼ぐ力、守る力、使う力をコンスタントに鍛え続けるだけなのでだけなのでやはり基本のコツコツですよ。まあやることわかっているから特に目標がないというか。むしろ目標立てたほうが縛られないか？とか思ってしまう。今のところはオーストラリアの個別株に投資ながらアメリカ株や日本、オーストラリアのインデックスに時々投資、また金・銀のETFや債券のインデックスに投資しながら長い目で見ながら勉強している。投資方法などに関してはレビューしていくのアリかもしれない。個別株でガンガン投稿していくのは無理でも少なくともどういう方針でなぜ買ったかくらいは書いてもいいかもしれない。Youtubeとか見てみてもそこまで深堀しているひとっていないよね。まあ出しているところだけしか見ていないからわからないが。コツコツと書いていくのはアリかもな。そうしないとリサーチ力も甘くなる。自分の中で納得させられて投稿できるといいかも。

４．読書

読書はここ数カ月ほど驚くほどやっていないな。なぜだろう。なぜか知識を新たに得るということにモチベーションが湧かないから。しばらく前は英語を勉強するという意味でも洋書を読んでいたが。英語で不自由がなくなってからモチベーションが上がらない。

５．ギター

音楽も最近はあまり。やはり一人でできるというのは良いところもあるがモチベーションの維持もなかなかできないもんだな。楽しく弾けていればいいのに。昔のイメージや下手になってやはり元に戻すのは大変だから。人の前で演奏することが何より大事。これからもなるべく練習して楽しめるようにはしておきたいね。

６．ランニング

ランニングはコロナもあるし体調の問題もあったからしばらく大会に出ていなかった。これから大会に出ていきたいという思いもあるが、とにかく年齢の問題もあり頑張っても現状維持という感じかな。毎日6.5kを40分程度で走っている。これはしばらくこうなるか？昔はもう少し速かったけどね。もう戻らないか。少しダッシュのトレーニングを入れるべきか。毎日走っていることは素晴らしいと思う。また体調がよくなったらやり直せるか。

さて、これから何をやるか。

これまでいくつか書いてきたが。これからに関してはとにかく物を書いていくことにした。これはすべての軸で大事なことになってくるし考えたがクリアになっていくようにとにかく毎日書いていきたい。日本語、英語。中国語もできるか？まあまだ広げず。日本語と英語で交互に書いていく。とにかくアウトプット。そして、科学者として論文を書いていく。Editorial Board Memberとしてとにかく物を書いてどんどんパブリッシュしていく。これは日本語でも英語でも。とにかく書いて出していく。できれば残るといい。とにかく書いていく。

First Sunday of December 2020. I am feeling this year is going to the end. I have two weeks to go to finish work.

Physics: We are doing the most difficult experiment in 2020 this week. We are using polarized neutron to study the magnetic structure of the superconducting sample in detail. If we could develop this experimental technique, that will be wonderful. I have several experimental plans I would like to do in the next several years. Even the experiment is hard enough but I will be learning more about this polarized neutron. In several years, I would like to become one of an expert in this field. Let’s do as many as experiment possible. I would like to publish the papers.

Reading: I don’t have much progress. Currently, I am reading “Principles” by Ray Dalio after I finished “Killing Commendatore” by Haruki Murakami.

Life: I went to Darling Harbour in Sydney today to have matcha latte and matcha waffle on Sunday. It is hot but I enjoy the summer.

Investing: This week, the coal price has gotten better. I have bought a coal mining company in Australia. The share price is finally surging. I am feeling great. Also, the Australian dollar is getting strong, which is a good sign for me. This is because the commodity price is getting better. I bought a gold ETF and gold mining company after I sold one of investing company. Gold will be appreciated in long term, I would say the next several decades.

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It is very hot in Sydney. But it is finally summer here in Sydney. The weekend was especially hot. I could not sleep well.

Investing: The market is moving a lot these days. there is a lot of news going around. I just merely catch up them. This week I have been waiting for one of my shares to sell and trying to find the best time by using Bollinger Bands and MACD. The share kept going up and finally I decided to wait. Both chartings helped me a lot. I am hoping I could sell next week. I would like to buy gold and a gold mining company in Australia sharemarket. This one also I am waiting for the best time. A gold mining company I am trying to buy is, I believe, a good company. But it could be overvalued but anyway I would like to have gold as part of my portfolio in long term. Gold could be appreciated in the next several decades. I will keep it in long term at least as 10 per cent of my financial asset. As for the stock market in Japan, Nikkei stock is going up steadily. It has reached about 26600 something in Nikkei 225. If it reaches 30000, it could be very historical points. That means 30 years high. As a Japanese, I believe this is huge. Japanese people have financial asset mostly with cash. Why? Because people could have not felt a growth on stocks for 30 years. But this could change their minds. I can see the momentum here. Maybe I could write more sometime here in the future

Physics: I keep learning physics. This week we’re calm. I am writing a grant application to the Taiwanese government. For the next 3 years of my research plan. I would like to pursuits several important subjects in condensed matter physics by using neutron inelastic scattering and polarized neutron scattering techniques. I am not sure I can succeed it or not. I will try my best on this proposal. I would like to offer a very successful, cost-efficient, and high-quality science project benefit Taiwanese tax payers.

Reading: Reading is good. I am reading “Killing Commendatore” by Haruki Murakami. I am enjoying it. Also, “Top stocks 2021” by Martin Roth and “Investing Wisdom” by Brett Kelly. I am investing in Australia and Australian companies sometimes but I can really find a nice book on it. These two books give me starting points. I am using Top stock to list up to start the research my own. For “Investing Wisdom”, I would like to know move about investor here and their thinking. Also, they are institutional investor, their institution sometimes shares its research on the website. I can learn from them. I enjoy reading!

Music: I should have played more guitar…

Running: I kept running in the morning. But these days, it is very very hot. I had to be careful.

This week has been calm. At work, reactor shutdown goes longer than expected so we can’t experiment so I am working calculation, planning or writing manuscripts instead. I don’t check Australian share much, but I feel Australian share is coming back steadily this week, my portfolio recovers nicely because of coal price is coming back.

Physics: I have gotten a review request from one of the prestigious journal in physics. The journal covers all area of physics and new physics. I am honoured to review one of the manuscripts. In the beginning, I felt it is too early for me to review that level of physics. But I will try my best. Basically, the manuscript has been rejected by another referee before me, authors claim the referee has failed to understand the importance of physics they found. The first referee claims that there is no new physics on their work. Unfortunately, I felt the same way with the first referee. Editor asked me to reevaluate their work to see if we have a strong reason to publish the work. He already thought that even after authors claim, he agrees with the first referee. The manuscript does not have a high quality of new physics. But the journal gives an alternative view (my view?) on the paper. So I have to evaluate the paper has

1. Substantially advanced the field
2. Open a significant new area of research
3. Solve a critical outstanding problem or making a significant step toward solving the problem
4. Are the results of great general interest.

I feel honoured but I feel a responsibility now. But the feeling is not bad. I will try my best to contribute to the history of physics.

Investing: This week. fortunately, my portfolio advanced substantially, but as you know, the short term does not matter much. Anyways, I feel great. Lately, I am learning a lot about charting to analyze the market. I am using MACD to know the trend but still, it will take some time to understand this. By learning about investing in books and Youtube, I have many ideas to try but I don’t have many funds to invest. Haha. But keep learning and doing research, keep a record to invest. Maybe I can write something sometime soon.

Book: I am thinking of writing a book review again. I would start again from neutron scattering which is my expertise in physics. Currently, I am reading the autobiography of the founder of Charles Schwab. I am enjoying his story. He gave me a lot of insight on investing and how to lead life. There is always something interesting we can find in a book. Keep reading and keep learning.

Music: I havent played much recently… Oh no, I will find time.

So anways, today is on Monday, it is bit late. But this is the update from 3rd week of November.

Last week, from 9th to 13th of November, was conference week, I have attended the annual meeting of Japanese society of neutron scattering (JSNS2020) and ANBUG and AINSE neutron scattering symposium (AANSS2020). Both are online, so I could attend both meetings. I enjoyed attending while I missed the feeling of attending the conference. For this kind of conference, I just joined talks or sessions which I was interested in while working at my office. Like I am listening online seminar but I didn’t feel attending a conference at the same place, communicating people, exchange opinions. When I went to the conference, we usually don’t have anything else to do, we can focus on learning new finding from colleagues and we all feel we are part of the conference. But this time, I did not feel that way. Usually, we have an opening ceremony and ending ceremony, that gives me the sense of attending the conference. This time, I miss some of them, so it is like just a bunch of seminar started.

Reading: after “Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro”, now I am reading “How dogs love us” by Gregory Berns. I am not familiar with this kind of scientific experiment but it turns out not much has been done in this field. In addition to the contents of scientific results, the author also showed readers how difficult to set up the experiment on a dog. Firstly, administrative job, University want to minimise the risk of an experiment, and this kind of experiment is rare so experimentalist has to prepare a lot. I did not know dogs are not allowed in University campus. Even after the administrative jobs, the next challenge is how to scan the brain of moving dogs on fMRI, which is expensive to experiment with limited research funding. Authors finally got an excellent result, that shows dogs have a mental map as humans do. I am still reading the book but the understanding of feeling or thinking of dogs is quite interesting. Dogs have social intelligence and dogs communicate with humans better than apes. The book is about just 2 years of rearch of dogs, but I feel they should come more in the future in many groups around the world.

My stomach has not been good for a long time. I refuse to take any medicine for some of my stupid belief that medicine is not good to my body. Finally, I took some this week and I am feeling better than before. My quality of life is much better. So, now my feeling is back. My enthusiasm is back. I am convinced how the health is important throughout our life.

What am I building in my life? As a physicist, I have worked on creating knowledge by publishing a paper. I would like to challenge many of the scientific fields. I am experimentalist so I will perform the experiment and data analysis. Creating data is one of important work and adding value by analysing it. Publishing data could be my making product and selling them by making a presentation or sharing it publicly. As a runner, my goal is staying healthy and motivated. I think now I need to give a bit harder training to run faster. Hopefully, I can join some race next year. As a reader or English learner, I am doing pretty well. But why am I doing this? That is right, that is to improve the writing skills especially on publication. So what I need to do is reading and writing more by writing. Publishing paper, writing grants, writing blogs, writing emails. Writing is creating things. We need practice but never give up writing good ones by writing a lot.

Other things could be building financial stability. While earning some money by working, I am constantly investing shares in Australia. I don’t know the future of this country or the world but I can try to believe in capitalism to some extent….. Instead of making money solely from working, I would like to build financial stability to do what I want to do in my life. As long as I am doing these reasonable ways, I am convinced it takes a while even I can luckily find a nice company to invest in. Just keep learning business and investing. Maybe after 5 to 10 years, I can build something. Learning is always good. I am making a decision every month to invest in form salary. Less spend money now and invest more for the future. This year, it hit hard because of COVID-19, but I would think in long term.