What is the single most important concept in physics ?
gauge theory
>>7991280
Maxwell's equations.
>>7991280
There's a lot of "gravity" surrounding the theory of gravity.
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>>7991280
einstein XD
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[citation needed]
>>7991280
Electromagnetism
>>7991280
Principal of least action.
>>7991280
Thermodynamics obviously
Barrier tunneling is how transistors work, right?
I'm going to say barrier tunneling...even though that entire fucking class felt like I was talking to a philosophy major.
>But have you considered that the puck could go THROUGH the hill?!
I think modern physics kinda showed me that I'm not cut out for physics or electronics. I'll just stick to my dinky little chalkboards and computers.
Quantum Electrodynamics
>>7991310
this.
> reference frame
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~t. a Jew
>>7991280
Principle of least action.
>>7991280
To quote Feynman:
Everything is made from atoms
Kinematics
dimmeh HERE
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> If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another.
-- Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures, Lecture 1
I tend to agree with these guys though:
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>>7991385
Or at least with the general idea that systems can described by some number of variables and that how they evolve are described by the paths that minimize the integral of some lagrangian.
>>7991280
The immutable concepts of "up" and "down"
