Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.
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To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It's one whole.
Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.
There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.
With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Since the founding of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, theoretical physics had nurtured an extremely radical tradition.
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
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