Do you believe in physics?

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I don't think I do. All that bumf about electricity and nuclear things and other stuff that is invisible. I simply don't think it exists and is just made up.

As a physicist this thread title gave me a chuckle... yeah it's totally made up!

On a serious note. What annoyed me was at GCSE I studied Physics, at A level they told me some of that wasn't true and I studied more Physics, at undergraduate level (1st year - Classical Physics) they told me some of that wasn't true and I studied more Physics, a undergraduate level (2nd year - Modern Physics) they told me some of that wasn't true and I studied more Physics. An MSc and a PhD later and am ashamed to say I struggle with lots of Physics concepts.

It was a warm summer evening in ancient Greece...

Adrian's calendar was built to get a look at Professor Higgs' bosom.

I think I saw an electron fall out then Sparking!

I teach science. I think classical physics (the stuff that most of us learned up to GCSE) is fairly obviously true if you learn about it. Quantum physics, however, is pretty hard for me to grasp. I don't know if it is just beyond my understanding, but some physicists have told me there is still a way to go for physicists to reliably explain matter/energy.
It's fun to learn about though.

Hahaha meditrina. We are all Pennys.

I'd be a bit nervous about not believing in gravity, in case, tinkerbell-like, it requires my belief to exist.

Hector that made me laugh. The more you learn about hard science the more they tell you they lied last time!

Its all mathematical probabilities and tbh despite a degree in chemistry with physical chemistry I don't really get it. Probably why I'm not doing a phd!

Gravity thing always gets me though - it holds the universe together but every time you take a step or pick up a pencil you are effortlessly overcoming the whole gravity of the planet.

Another physicist here (nuclear/radiation)...I think some physicists just make things difficult to understand to make them sound like they're on a different intellectual level. I also find that those sort of people are the hardest to extract good explanations from

That's why I try to make physics very accessible when I do schools outreach, because it's like everything else; you learn the basic building blocks and then slowly you gather the extra knowledge with time. I would hate for people to be put off because it seems boring/too difficult because for the most part it certainly isn't!

The cobwebs on my ceiling defy gravity very well IMO.

Lying and not being true is a bit harsh... It's just the way they teach it at different levels. You think you've grasped it and understood it an then they throw something else in and you're back to not understanding it. :)

As for maths? Pah! Squiggles on a page. Totally meaninhless, pointless squiggles. Load o shite.

I thought this was about psychics.

Yep,you are right. Psychics are sometimes more plausible than physics. Dark matter- now that boggles my mind.

hector - I remember my DB getting really cross about that.

Just to be even and fair, btw, I also don't believe in postmodernism. Giiiiannt hairy emperor's unclothed bollocks.

I luffs Maths!

But I baffled my Dad the other day by explaining that it's easier to do the maths (in Physics) if you take the numbers out. I think he thought I was bonkers.

no....and i bloody watched that Stephen Hawking effort

...so many "if this then....." and "thus" and "if we say that...."

it is all made up nonsense. ALL.OF.IT. NONSENSE and lies

not that sure I believe in gravity either tbh.

Maths with the numbers out. That would be good for me.

Oh, I like logic. The 'If this then ...' bits were the bits that made sense.

I onnce heard someone claim that if you squashed together all the actual stuff, in everything that exists, like EVERYTHING, compared to the spaces in between, there is a tiny dot of stuff and a big lot of absolutely nothing.

Nothing at all.

THERE IS NOTHING EVERYWHERE.

At that point my brain cell imploded.

That probably doesn't make sense either does it - what I mean is because I tend not to have a calculator to hand or anything and am pants at doing 'sums' in my head. I like taking numbers out, simplifying and cancelling where possible. Does that make more sense?

The one that blows my mind is that we never really touch anything, we just sort of juxtapose. I have no idea if that's a) true in any sense or b) similar to the big lot of absolutely nothing theory. But it's very spooky.

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Actually there was a cat that may or may not have been alive in the box or may even be simultaneously alive and dead. TRUE FACT

So badically.... all the stuff is so small it doesn't count and everything else is nothing. Therefore take away the number of stuff from the amount of nothing and you are left with nothing. So physics doesn't exist.

it's not logic, it's supposition. AND they have made up all this jiggerypokery about Higgs Boson and anti matter, cos otherwise none of their sums add up.

and everything is everywhere and is nothing and all the things.

AND if we are all rushing out from the big bang why do i not feel the wind in my face. HUH??

the world is flat!

I like the idea that there is dark matter everywhere. How do they know - they know because they can't see it