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One Possible Definition of Physics

Posted on 21 August 2016 by RobertLovesPi
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Visual definition of physics

With my metaphorical “mathematics of sets” hat on, this is what physics looks like, to me. The further you go in the field, the more challenging the mathematics gets; also, the better (and more expensive) the toys become.

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