AUTHOR=Akasofu Syun-Ichi TITLE=When I Encountered Difficult Problems JOURNAL=Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences VOLUME=Volume 9 - 2022 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/astronomy-and-space-sciences/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.879290 DOI=10.3389/fspas.2022.879290 ISSN=2296-987X ABSTRACT=

All of us encounter our unique difficulties as scientists. Although the kind of difficulty varies by scientist, I describe my own in this program, and explain how I responded, together with a sort of moral. They are: (a) When theorists seemed to encounter a deadlock, (b) When a well-accepted theory is confronted with a seriously contradictory observational fact, (c) When there is a generally believed morphology of a phenomenon that does not agree with my observations, (d) When a single approach or theory prevails, but I have a different idea. Obviously, my responses are just an attempt, which will be judged by future developments in space physics.