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Today, you hear arguments about things like Beauty, being the most effective guide to discovering truths about the laws of nature, largely because this is the method that many of the Titans of Physics used, and have stated that they use.

This is interesting because when you consider Rédei's On The Tension Between Mathematics and Physics in this context, it seems that Physics places an selection pressure on Mathematics, such as Newton's Calculus providing the pressure that motivated Cauchy and Weierstrass to develop a rigorous definition of a derivative.

Tags:: Scientific-Philosophy Physics Philosophy

The aesthetic arguments that rise up in defense of theories in Physics stem from an unobjective time in the past, where nature was seen as reflecting divinity.

Within Physics, motion is the process by which the position of some object changes over time.

Physics also gets caught up in the elegant end result of a theory, that likely started out as a messy idea, and while Physics & Maths benefit from each other, however, Physics is not Maths.

The current problem facing Physics is that there seems to be too much distance between what the experimentalists can do, and what the theorists believe.

(a.) Physics focuses on precise measurement, aimed at specifying values of defined physical quantities: this is the work of quantitative experimental physics, and ensures the descriptive accuracy of physics.

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Another example, the discovery of hemoglobin, was the result of work done in a Physics laboratory (and this is reminiscent of Watson & Crick's work on DNA), and generated the fields of protein crystallography.

Currently, from the viewpoint of modern Physics, everything can be described (as far as the Four Fundamental Forces), as a Field.

Within the context of Physics, distance may refer to a physical length, or an estimation.

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Thoughts: The Breeding Horses argument, seems super valid to me, but I don't think this is what is taking place in Physics.

Oh, he's also regarded as the founder of Quantum Field Theory, and the mathematical notation he formalized, eponymously named, is ubiquitous in Physics and is integral to Quantum Computing.

The stark separation of Physics from Metaphysics always seemed a bit odd to me: considering that Metaphysics is "beyond Physics", there should be a bridge between the two, so that there can always be information shared about what belongs to who, and where that boundary is.

What's interesting is that you would almost never think something like propaganda would be a tool of scientists, but it certainly is, for instance, Physics, with regard to Naturalness and The Standard Model, has been known to be rather dismissive of theories that posses (or lack) numerical qualities that are not considered in-line with the norms of the day.

Physical space is often defined as having three linear dimensions, though within Physics, it is considered with Time, to be part of a four dimensional continuum, known as Space-Time.

The current generation of Physics knowledge isn't benefiting from the labor divide between theorist and experimentalist.

Due to the deep interrelation of Mathematics and Physics, there is inherent tension between the two fields, perceived by mathematicians, physicists and mathematical physicists. Also, an attempt is made to explain why mathematical rigor is typically unwelcome in Physics.

These debates impacted Physics greatly: mathematics is the language of physics, and platonism makes speaking about time challenging. This led to the expulsion of the concept of time in physics: all events are the consequence of quantum fluctuations that took place during the big bang.

In short, this is my lournal or learning journal, for Physics and Mathematics, mostly from scratch, and constitutes my Personal Curriculum.