Yang Zhenning
So what's the difference between them? Or where is Einstein taller than Yang Zhenning? Einstein is the only person in the history of physics who can be compared with Newton, because he almost independently established a brand-new concept of time and space and a mechanical system. Few people in human history can do this, Newton did it, Maxwell did it, Einstein was the last one, and there is no more. One of Einstein's special relativity and general relativity can be compared with Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, so compared with Maxwell, Einstein surpassed a set of theories and was higher than Maxwell.
[Name] Albert Einstein (Jewish theoretical physicist)
What about Yang Zhenning? It has two great contributions that can be compared with Einstein. One is that parity is not conserved under weak interaction, and the other is to establish Yang-Mills theory. The former can be compared with Einstein's relativistic view of time and space, but it is not put forward as a complete theory like special relativity, but only innovates people's view of the universe, so it is slightly inferior in this respect. At the same time, parity non-conservation was put forward by Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao, not by Yang Zhenning independently, and there is no evidence that Yang Zhenning was dominant in the process of putting forward the theory, so this round of Yang Zhenning is a little worse than Einstein.
Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao
The other is Yang-Mills theory, which is an important basic theory, and its importance can be comparable to or even more basic than general relativity. However, he didn't do it independently. I don't mean that he did it with Mills, because Mills later admitted that the main contribution of Yang-Mills theory was yes. What I'm saying is that the theory originally given by Yang Zhenning is flawed, that is, it can't solve the quality problems in this field. This problem was first pointed out by the genius Pauli, the originator of the bar. In fact, Pauli had already done relevant research, but he was too smart to think of all the problems, but he couldn't solve them himself, so he rejected them all. Because of this serious defect, Yang-Mills theory was once ignored. Yang Zhenning did not solve this problem himself, and later someone gave a solution to revive it, and finally established the unified field theory of quantum mechanics on its basis. Therefore, it cannot be compared with Einstein in Yang-Mills theory.
Einstein and Yang Zhenning
Since Yang Zhenning can't compare with Einstein, China can't find a scientist who can compare with Einstein.