On the academic work of Professor L. Z. Fang
Dear T. M.:
Thank you very much for forwarding the articles on the late Professor L. Z. Fang in memorial of him. I am very ignorant on politics. So, I cannot really comment on his activities on politics. However, as many oversea Chinese, I come to know that he is known for his advocating of academic freedom and democracy. However, as a scientist, I cannot say things that are really positive on his work in science.
I first knew about Professor Fang through an article of my classmate Professor Au, who has coauthored the article with Fang [1]. This article clearly showed Fang's deficiency in general relativity and physics [2]. I met L. Z. Fang in 1991 in Japan. Professor L. Z. Fang impressed me as a very good speaker for a general public, but I was puzzled for his lack of depth as a scholar in private conversations.
Academically as many theorists in cosmology, Professor L. Z. Fang followed the views of the Wheeler School and the work of Hawking & Penrose, both of which have been proven incorrect. In fact, I have personally asked him again later in 2007 about general relativity, and discovered that he still does not understand general relativity. His earlier book coauthored with Ruffini on general relativity confirms this clearly. He did get a reward for an article from a foundation on gravity that always keeps the names of judges for the awards undisclosed; and this is also a foundation that advocated the erroneous views of the Wheeler School.
In particular, he misunderstood Einstein's equivalence principle, and the work of Professor Zhou Pei-Yuan on general relativity. His view made me misunderstood the work of Zhou for a long time. Fang’s view probably also has an impact on the error of C. N. Yang, who incorrectly considered Zhou was wrong in general relativity. Based on what I know, I concluded that Professor Fang’s academic achievements are greatly inflated because his essentially follows the popular errors. I doubt whether he had anything that can be considered as significant in science in the future.
I am sorry that I may have disappointed you.
Best regards.
C. Y. Lo
p.s. My recent paper, "Rectification of General Relativity, Errors and Distortions of the Wheeler School" is attached for your perusal.
Reference:
1. C. Au, L. Z. Fang, & F. T. To, in Proc. 7th Marcel Grossmann Meeting On Gen. Relat., Stanford, 1994, ser. ed. R. Ruffini, 289 (World Sci., Singapore, 1996).
2. C. Y. Lo, Physics Essays, vol. 13, no. 4 (2000). |
发表于 2012-4-25 23:18
| 
发表于 2012-4-25 23:38
|