About Zhang Xiangqian
A farmer from Anhui, China, who has dedicated forty years to researching unified field theory. Regardless of what you think of his theories, this level of perseverance commands respect.
Personal Background
- Year of Birth: 1967
- Education: Middle school
- Residence: Erlong New Street, Tongda Town, Lujiang County, Anhui Province, China
- Occupation: Makes a living through electric welding and bicycle repair, researches unified field theory in his spare time
Zhang Xiangqian is a farmer from Lujiang, Anhui Province, China. Without any formal higher education in physics, he built a complete unified field theory system through self-study and independent thinking.
Since 1985, Zhang Xiangqian has devoted himself to thinking about fundamental questions in physics. Over the course of forty years, under extremely limited conditions, he has continuously refined his theories, conducted experiments, and written books. His major works include Unified Field Theory (now in its seventh edition) and Adventures on Planet Guoke.
The 1985 Experience
According to Zhang Xiangqian's own account, in the summer of 1985 he was taken to an alien planet called Guoke where he lived for about one month, acquiring core knowledge of unified field theory and artificial field scanning technology. This site makes no judgment on the truth of this experience — what we focus on is the physics theory he developed from it, because theories can be tested through experiments.
Forty Years of Perseverance
Zhang Xiangqian's research journey can be described in one word: solitary.
- No laboratory — he conducts experiments at home with rudimentary equipment he purchased himself
- No academic network — his theories have not attracted attention from mainstream physics
- No funding — all research expenses are borne entirely by himself
- No team — from theoretical derivation to experimental operation, everything is done alone
Despite all this, he completed the entire chain from theoretical framework to experimental verification, and was granted a US patent (US12417870) in 2024.
Major Works
- Unified Field Theory (7th Edition): A systematic exposition of the unified field theory system, including core formulas, derivation processes, and physical interpretations.
- Adventures on Planet Guoke: A narrative account of the extraterrestrial civilization information he claims to have learned, including Planet Guoke's social structure, technological level, and civilizational evolution.
- Experiments and Simplified Derivation of Gravitational Fields Generated by Changing Electromagnetic Fields: Detailed documentation of experimental designs and theoretical derivations.
Why pay attention to a farmer's physics?
The history of science is full of self-taught contributors. Faraday was a bookbinder's apprentice; Ramanujan was a self-taught mathematician from rural India. Of course, the vast majority of amateur scientists' theories do not hold up.
We focus on Zhang Xiangqian not because of his background, but because his theory makes experimentally testable predictions — that changing electromagnetic fields can generate gravitational fields. If this prediction is confirmed by independent experiments, then the origin of the theory doesn't matter. If it's falsified, we can still learn from it. That is the power of the scientific method.