A few notes:

• I love what you say here: “the best thing about the Chinese language is that it does away with weird sounding words based on Latin and Ancient Greek roots and puts them much more simply.” I love this about Japanese, too. But I’m never sure about the time frame (e.g., whether these words came into Japanese via English) or whether they’ve come from ancient observations of the natural world. Got into this a bit in one of my blogs, and a reader offered valuable info. on the matter: http://tinyurl.com/yag6rh8

• I believe that where you talk about 光子, you mean “photon,” not “proton.”

• When I learned 引力 in a beginning kanji class, we were taught that it simply means “gravity.” But when I blogged about it recently, my Japanese proofreader corrected me on this. We went back and forth about the most accurate definition, and we came up w/ this rather awk. def.: “(physical) forces of
attraction, such as gravitational force.” He said 重力 is the way to write “gravitational force.” Probably not true in Chinese, though.

Impressed that you’re able to read such a difficult book in Chinese!!!