{"id":7356,"date":"2025-04-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/?p=7356"},"modified":"2025-04-10T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:24:22","slug":"using-physics-as-a-centre-she-measures-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/using-physics-as-a-centre-she-measures-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Physics as a Centre, She Measures the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>WASNJ | Using Physics as a Centre, She Measures the World<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Our conversation with Yulai held more than a few surprises.<\/p>\n<p>Despite receiving offers from four of Hong Kong\u2019s top universities, including the University of Hong Kong, and even securing a full scholarship from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, despite her talents beyond science \u2014 including music, literature, the arts, and fluency in five languages \u2014 she still doesn\u2019t quite fit the conventional image of an \u201call-round top student\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She is not a so-called \u201cexcellent sheep\u201d, nor does she suffer from the \u201cexistential emptiness\u201d that plagues many high-achieving youth today. On the contrary, she is both determined and open-minded. She has anchored herself in physics, and from that focal point, she continues to expand her intellectual radius through astronomy\u2019s vastness, philosophy\u2019s depth, mathematics\u2019 precision, chemistry\u2019s wonders, music\u2019s elegance, literature\u2019s romance, and the grandeur of art \u2014 redrawing her own universe of knowledge within an ever-growing boundary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/9J6Z-LHvK1DNxkZHLaoaYA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She has anchored herself in physics, and from that focal point, she continues to expand her intellectual radius through astronomy\u2019s vastness, philosophy\u2019s depth, mathematics\u2019 precision, chemistry\u2019s wonders, music\u2019s elegance, literature\u2019s romance, and the grandeur of art \u2014 redrawing her own universe of knowledge within an ever-growing boundary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/using-physics-as-a-centre-she-measures-the-world\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","infinite-scroll-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7361,"href":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions\/7361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waisnj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}