WRITTEN BY SID SENADHEERA

From the above book written by J.J.Sakurai

About J. J. Sakurai [assessment of his credibility as a Physicist]

Jun John Sakurai, one of the major theoretical physicists of our times, died suddenly in October 1982 while visiting CERN in Geneva. He was only 49 years old and at the height of a brilliant career. Jun was born in 1933 in Tokyo and was one of the children who were evacuated during the fire bombing of that city in World War II. At the age of sixteen he won a scholarship to the Thomas Jefferson High School in St. Louis and transferred the following year to the Bronx High School of Science in New York from which he was graduated in 1951. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard summa cum laude in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1958. After a postdoctoral year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Chicago in 1959 and full professor in 1964. In 1970 he moved to UCLA and had remained at UCLA until his death. In addition he had held visiting staff appointments at the California Institute of Technology, Universities of Tokyo and

Nagoya, University of Paris at Orsay, Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa, Stanford Linear Accelerator, CERN at Geneva, and Max Planck Institute at Munich. He was a Sloan Fellow (1962-1966), Fellow of the American Physical Society (1964-1982), a Guggenheim Fellow (1975-1976) and most recently a von Humboldt Fellow (1981-1982). While still a graduate student at Cornell, Sakurai was one of those who independently discovered the V-A theory of the weak interactions. In 1960 he published in Annals of Physics the first serious attempt to construct a theory of the strong interactions based on non-Abelian gauge invariance. In spite of violent criticism he stoutly defended his ideas and was eventually proved to be on the right track. His name is now inextricably entwined with the topic of vector mesons in all their aspects. In later years he contributed much to interpreting the experiments which decisively confirmed the Weinberg-Salam-Glashow unification of electromagnetism and the weak interactions. He had always worked at the forefront of high energy physics and had contributed in important ways to all phases of the theory. He had a deep understanding of the formal structure of theory, an encyclopaedic knowledge of the phenomena, and was always in closest touch with experiment. Sakurai's work was characterized by a degree of independence and freshness of approach rarely found elsewhere. His style was simple, bearing directly on the heart of the matter, not formal but readily comprehensible to a wide audience. Jun was an outstanding lecturer. This talent, coupled with his scientific brilliance, made him a much sought after speaker at international conferences and summer institutes. The list is too long to give here but included the following: Erice, Italy ('73, '76, '80) DESY, Hamburg ('75), Schladming, Austria ('73), Recontre de Moriond ('76), Kyoto ('78). These invitations extended from Shanghai to Helsinki, including the Soviet Union. His textbooks as well as his lectures and reviews were beautifully lucid. Jun Sakurai was a connoisseur of many of the good things in life. He enjoyed skiing; he enjoyed travelling; he enjoyed playing the guitar. His first love was opera, and unknown to many of his colleagues, he himself was an accomplished baritone. In order to honor Sakurai's contributions to science, a J. J. Sakurai Memorial Fund has been established. The fund will be used for a prize to recognize outstanding work in theoretical particle physics by young research scientists. The prize will be administered by the American Physical Society. Jun Sakurai is survived by his wife, Noriko, and sons, Ken and George. We shall all greatly miss this distinguished man.

Julian Schwinger (Nobel Laureate), Robert Finkelstein

Some of the new ideas that I came up in my research were questioned at the beginning by the scientific community and my Supervisors at Ryerson University. In my Ph.D. thesis (2009) I introduced few more details into the same equation that J.J.Sakurai has written on equation - 2.6.11 on page [3].

FROM SID SENADHEERAS PHD THESIS :

When the two equations are compared with each other, in the equation below in the red box shows the gravitational potential energy mgz plus the energy due to the curvature in space-time. It is the 4D curved space-time case of what J.J. Sakurai has done for 3D non-curved space. The realistic case requires that the space be curved. Txy acts as a perturbation as it is referred to in Quantum Mechanics.

When these two equations are put side by side

{MY} Hamiltonian (H) =

mgz + [Einsteins stress energy Tensor Txy ]

Einsteins stress energy Tensor Txy incorporates gravitation into

this equation from external sources other than near the earth.

J.J.Sakurai has used the same equation without Einsteins Stress energy Tensor (Txy)

{J.J.Sakurais} Hamiltonian (H) =

mgz

My description of a particles trajectory compared with J.J. Sakurais equation of a particle in Euclidean(non curved) space [below / on the following page]

THE THEORY EXTENDED TOWARDS A RELATIVISTIC PARTICLE IN CURVED SPACETIME USING P.A.M. DIRACS APPROACH [PAGE 7]