Physics
- Galilean relativity, Galileo's conception of relativity
- Numerical relativity, a subfield of computational physics that aims to establish numerical solutions to Einstein's field equations in general relativity
- Principle of relativity, used in Einstein's theories and derived from Galileo's principle
- Theory of relativity, a general treatment that refers to both special relativity and general relativity
- General relativity, Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation
- Special relativity, a theory formulated by Albert Einstein, Henri Poincaré, and Hendrik Lorentz
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Famous quotes containing the word physics:
“We must be physicists in order ... to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Although philosophers generally believe in laws and deny causes, explanatory practice in physics is just the reverse.”
—Nancy Cartwright (b. 1945)
“The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced—by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)