All 9 Uses of
physics
in
This I Believe
- ALBERT EINSTEIN published his general theory of relativity in 1916, profoundly affecting the study of physics and cosmology for years.†
Chpt 18physics = the science of matter and energy
- He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect.†
Chpt 18
- We have figured out fundamental laws of physics—laws that govern how stars shine and light travels, laws that dictate how time elapses and space expands, laws that allow us to peer back to the briefest moment after the universe began.†
Chpt 29
- But just as our experience playing baseball is enormously richer if we know the rules of the game, the better we understand the universe's rules—the laws of physics—the more deeply we can appreciate our lives within it.†
Chpt 29
- I've received letters from young soldiers in Iraq, telling me how reading popular accounts of relativity and quantum physics has provided them hope that there is something larger, something universal that binds us together.†
Chpt 29
- A native New Yorker, BRIAN GREENE teaches physics and mathematics at Columbia University.†
Chpt 29
- One of the Holy Grails in physics is to find the so-called Theory of Everything, the final theory that will encompass all the fundamental laws of nature.
Chpt 46 *
- A barbecue cook must have an intimate understanding of his work, the physics of fire and convection, the hard science of meat and heat and smoke—and then forget it all to achieve a sort of gut-level, Zen instinct for the process.†
Chpt 68
- I said, 'I'm lecturing to Albert Einstein on physics!'†
Chpt 81
Definition:
the science of matter and energy and their interactions