Do you believe in physics?

[AtYourCervix]

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.

No point in maths at all.

D1 doesn't believe in evolution. I'm inclined to agree with her.

And to whoever said about thdm telling you they lied earlier I totally agree! In a level physics we were told thag electrons arent actually little balls that orbit the nucleus I get it now but at the time it blew my mind

I'm a medical radiation physicist. I don't pretend to understand the depths of many areas of physics though - I described it to someone as driving along a motorway, going yep I get that, yep, and then you drive off a cliff into an abyss of ignorance. Because largely, being a scientist is about knowing more and more about less and less!

So, there's relativity. And there's quantum mechanics. And they don't even match up. And Steven Hawking tried to join them up with string and that didn't work so Brian Cox built the Hadrian Collider to smash them together really hard.

And once they were smashed there was nothing at all.

Well they all used to bang on about the Ether didn't they. And now they reckon it doesn't exist so there'd you are.

::Purses lips and hoists bosom::

It's starting to make God sound plausible.

As long as he does not play dice

I think he is a blind watchmaker.

I'm not entirely sure of what physics are.
Or what physic is.
Or what it isn't.
Or what it proports to be

No wonder my physics teacher hated me

I vaguely remember coming across string theory for the first time in a sci-fi novel. At the time I thought 'this bloke doesn't know how to end the book so he's made up this mumbo jumbo to try and force an ending on all these implausible situations' - then I found out it was an actual thing...

I am not proud to admit I gave up physics at 13. The teacher tried to persuade me to carry on, saying 'you don't have to do nuffield physics, the 'o'level syllabus is no harder than what we're doing at the moment' - as I didn't understand a bloody word of what we were doing at the moment I decided to give it up. Chemistry, however, is fab. Things explode... :o

I gave up physics to study religious studies.

Whether it is made up or not is irrelevant. The key thing is surely that it has greatly contributed to humanity by spawning The Big Bang Theory.

so are the scientologists part of all this or are they something else?

That's true. Its greatest achievement after novelty cat carriers.

Bazinga!

I thought Scientologists were lizards?

I have to believe in physics, it's in my job title

I don't 'believe' in physics - it isn't a matter of faith, it's a matter of measuring and then trying to explain what we've found. Physics is only ever our best current set of models to attempt to explain how the Universe works.

Lots of physics is well enough understood to have plenty of practical applications. Loads is poorly understood with more research needed - that's what makes it fun !

I always wanted to be better at physics and loved the idea of really getting to the point where I understood it. But my physics teacher told me if I selected his subject for gcse he would refuse to teach me so I never got the chance :(

I don't get physics, at all.

But it must all exist - I'm learning to figure skate, and can briefly defy gravity, but then come crashing down onto the ice with a thump.

Physics can be painful :(

Thing I don't get, is flying. How can something that weighs THAT much, be held up in the sky, or even get off the ground in the first place, without simply dropping back down?

My Dad was a physicist, and after he retired he admitted to me that it was all made up. He just wrote numbers and calculations on a page and people were so gullible they believed him. He said it was right laugh, and more fool them for parting with their money.

Eddies in the space time continuum.

My dad is well into his physics, reads books about it for "fun".

Him: "The universe is continually expanding."
Me: "Into what? What's beyond?"
Him: "Into nothing. It's expanding into a vacuum."
Me:

None of it makes any sense to me. Plants converting sun's energy into food (a concept I meet frequently at work)? Wossatallabahtthen??