Light cones emerge in physics because the speed of light is constant.
How special relativity can help AI predict the future|Will Heaven|August 28, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Some of the most perplexing topics in physics revolve around quantum theory.
Schrödinger’s Cat When Nobody Is Looking - Issue 89: The Dark Side|Daniel Sudarsky|August 26, 2020|Nautilus
Like the laws of physics, the laws of biology simply describe what is, not what should be.
Just Because It’s Natural Doesn’t Mean It’s Good - Issue 89: The Dark Side|David P. Barash|August 19, 2020|Nautilus
Over the last few decades it has grown from a small collection of insights into a dynamic area of research with deep connections to more areas of math and physics than Hamilton ever could have imagined.
How Physics Found a Geometric Structure for Math to Play With|Kevin Hartnett|July 29, 2020|Quanta Magazine
That frees physicists to focus on other explanations, like potential issues with the supernova or quasar measurements, or the possibility of unexplained new physics phenomena.
Despite a new measurement, the debate over the universe’s expansion rages on|Emily Conover|July 15, 2020|Science News
Their friendship began when Krauss, who was chairman of the physics department at Case Western in Cleveland, sought out Epstein.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The laws of physics probably forbid wormholes from existing anyway, according to Thorne.
Meet Kip Thorne, the Man Who Crafted the Artful Science of ‘Interstellar’|Asawin Suebsaeng|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Muslims made many discoveries in mathematics, chemistry, physics, medicine, astronomy and psychology.
‘Gods of Suburbia’: Dina Goldstein’s Arresting Photo Series on Religion vs. Consumerism|Dina Goldstein|November 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Before Malala, in 1979, Dr. Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Why So Many Pakistanis Hate Their Nobel Peace Prize Winner|Chris Allbritton|October 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Despite an early focus on physics, her life changed when she became a model and began collecting couture.
Tatiana Sorokko Is the Queen of Vintage Couture|Anthony Haden-Guest|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For some time, he turned his thoughts to philosophy, and read lectures to us every night upon some branch or other of physics.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851|Various
Both history and physics agree in confirming this conjecture.
Buffon's Natural History, Volume I (of II)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Kepler had reasoned out according to physics the laws by which the planets moved.
The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe|Dorothy Stimson
While Haeckel is a biologist, Ostwalds brilliant work was done in chemistry and physics.
A History of Freedom of Thought|John Bagnell Bury
The rainbow colors are the result of interference of light (see a college text on physics for an explanation of interference).
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public|Frank Bertram Wade
British Dictionary definitions for physics
physics
/ (ˈfɪzɪks) /
noun(functioning as singular)
the branch of science concerned with the properties of matter and energy and the relationships between them. It is based on mathematics and traditionally includes mechanics, optics, electricity and magnetism, acoustics, and heat. Modern physics, based on quantum theory, includes atomic, nuclear, particle, and solid-state studies. It can also embrace applied fields such as geophysics and meteorology
physical properties of behaviourthe physics of the electron
archaicnatural science or natural philosophy
Word Origin for physics
C16: from Latin physica, translation of Greek ta phusika natural things, from phusis nature
The science of matter and energy and of interactions between the two, grouped in traditional fields such as acoustics, optics, mechanics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism, as well as in modern extensions including atomic and nuclear physics, cryogenics, solid-state physics, particle physics, and plasma physics.
Physical properties, interactions, processes, or laws.