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The Great Wave off Kanagawa (between 1823-29, woodblock printing by Hokusai

Cenotaph for Newton (1784) by French architect Étienne-Louis Boullée

Citation: "energy destroys us; it is we who pay the price of the inevitable explosion" --The Accursed Share, cited in Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory After May '68 by Peter Starr

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quantum mysticism, wave–particle duality, measurement problem, Schrödinger's cat

Physics (Greek: (phúsis), "nature") is the branch of science concerned with the discovery and characterization of universal laws which govern matter, energy, space, and time. The role of physics, then, is to provide a logically ordered picture of nature in agreement with experience.

See also

General

• List of important publications in physics
• List of unsolved problems in physics
• 'Pataphysics
• Perfection in physics and chemistry
• Philosophy of physics
• Physics (Aristotle) – an early book on physics, which attempted to analyze and define motion from a philosophical point of view
• Timeline of fundamental physics discoveries

Related fields

• Astronomy
• Chemistry
• Engineering
• Mathematics
• Quantum Mechanics
• Science

Interdisciplinary fields incorporating physics

• Biophysics
• Econophysics
• Geophysics
• Neurophysics
• Psychophysics

See also

• Metaphysics
• Cartoon physics