Zhi Cheng

I was born in 1967 in a rural family in Jiangxi Province, China. This is the second year of the rise of the Cultural Revolution, so my growth process has almost completely experienced this movement. Although the Cultural Revolution has had a great impact on Chinese culture and the economy, I still want to thank the young people from Shanghai, Nanchang and other big cities that responded to the call of the country and went to the countryside. It is these young people who have brought me very high quality primary education. I also sown the seeds of science.

By the end of the 1970s, the world situation had changed greatly. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the Soviet Union rented the Vietnamese military port of Cam Ranh Bay, and the Soviet Union smashed millions of troops on the northern border of China. Although we are young and have little feeling, we can see many adults with deep fears. However, at this time, the miracle happened. After 1979, everything changed. Everything became so peaceful. Adults began to work hard to make money, and we spent more energy to learn all kinds of human knowledges accumulation.

In 1984, soon after China resumed the college entrance examination, higher education was gradually recovering. I entered the Physics Department of Beijing Normal University. Faced with millions of books, I was shocked as a student from a closed-door rural area. I also deeply understand the richness of the treasure house of human knowledge, which is what Newton called "giant." Because of the Cultural Revolution, China faced a very serious problem of the scarcity of university teachers. This made me even more grateful to Beijing Normal University, and thanked the teachers of the Physics Department for teaching us such professional knowledge under such difficult conditions. During my time, I was able to reach out to meet the most outstanding physicists in the world today, including Hawking and Prigogine. The joint recruitment of doctoral programs between China and the United States, which Professor Li Zhengdao advocated in China, also had a great impact on me. During my school days, I carefully studied the books on theoretical physics such as Professor Li Zhengdao's “Particle Physics and Introduction to Field Theory”. These books have also influenced my later research work.

After graduating from college, I have been worked at Guangzhou Teacher’s College and later changed her name to Education School of Guangzhou University. During this period, I published "The Foundation of Network Education" (People's Posts and Telecommunications Press, 2002), "Modern Educational Technology and Teacher Professional Development" (Tianjin Education Press, 2010), "Distance Education Tutorial" (Jinan University Press, 2013) books on educational technology. In 2012, after many years of thinking, I proposed Maxwell's equations based on virtual spacetime, and in the following years, I solved and perfected the new Maxwell equations. In 2015, I felt that I was spent too much energy in teaching. So in 2015, I quit my job at Guangzhou University and became an independent researcher specializing in theoretical physics, cognitive science and sociology.