The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences: Feynman's Physics Explained
A poet once said, 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine.' Look closely enough and it is true. The swirling liquid and evaporating alcohol are physics; the glass is distilled from the Earth's rocks, which is geology; the ferments and enzymes are chemistry; and the great idea that life is a kind of fermentation is biology. The sciences are different views of the same reality, and physics is the most fundamental because it describes the atoms everything is made from. Nature does not know we divided her into subjects.
The big idea
The sciences are different windows onto one connected reality.
Think about it
Pick an everyday object and list three different sciences you could use to study it. Where do they overlap?
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