Justified?

• One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein was interested in how things appear to moving observers. Niels Bohr was interested in the the hydrogen atom. Bohr and Einstein met occasionally to discuss physics. Did they talk about moving hydrogen atoms? If they did, there are no written records on this issue.

  My program was to answer this question using the mathematical formalism Eugene Wigner developed in 1939. After some struggle, I was able to develop the result shown in this table.

• In 1986, with my younger colleagues, I published a paper containing the following table. This table tells that Winger's little group unifies the internal space-time symmetries for both massive and massless particles, as Einstein's
  E = mc²

  unifies the energy-momentum relation.

  Contents of Einstein's E = mc2 Particle Massive/Slow between Massless/Fast

  Einstein Energy Momentum E = p2/2m E = (m2 + p2)1/2 E = cp

  Wigner Helicity spin, Gauge S3 S1 S2 Winner's Little Groups Helicity Gauge Trans.

  This table is from one of my papers published in 1986.

• I then approached Professor Wigner and showed this table. He became very happy and asked me to write papers with him, and we published a number of papers together. By 1989, I became politically (unfortunate word) strong enough to publish in Physical Review Letters (the most prestigious journal) a paper containing the following table.

  Further Contents of Einstein's E = mc2 Massive/Slow between Massless/Fast

  Energy Momentum E = p2/2m Einstein's E=(m2 + p2)1/2 E = cp

  Helicity Spin, Gauge S3 S1 S2 Wigner's Little Group Helicity Gauge Trans.

  Hadrons, Bound States Gell-Mann's Quark Model One Lorentz-Covariant Entity Feynman's Parton Picture

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  This table contains my earlier work, mostly with Marilyn, Noz on how the proton (quantum bound state like the hydrogen atom) appears when it moves with a speed close to that of light. This is known as the quark-parton puzzle in high-energy physics.

• Here is another form of this table.

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What do they say about me? Video from the Marquis Who's Who. Video from the IAOTP (International Association of Top Professionals).