What is Physics?

Below is a compilation of student responses to the question What is Physics?, posed on the first day of the class Quantum Mechanics for the Myriad.

If you have trouble adding your response below, tell Adam Krellenstein.

Fall 2009

 * 1) Ernst Rutherford: "In science there is only physics. All the rest is stamp collecting."
 * 2) "Physics is an unique form of bullshit that attempts to define why the universe works the way it does." Nick Schachter
 * 3) Jonah Kellman: Physics is the science of interactions of stuff in the universe.
 * 4) Grace Rosen: Physics is a division of science focused on the nature of matter and energy.
 * 5) Jake Hawkesworth: Physics is a series of theories developed to attempt to understand the universe, which are then either built off of or debunked by other theories.
 * 6) Devon Ingraham-Adie: Physics is the fundemental way in which the universe operates.
 * 7) Brenna Sommer: Physics is the science that admits it's making shit up, but does it anyway in its effort to explain reality. Albeit with more questioning and theoretical influence than other sciences.
 * 8) Morgan Drewniany: Physics is a branch of science studying energy.
 * 9) Nathan Holiday: Physics the area of science that studies the natural/material/manifest universe.
 * 10) Kathi Pappas: Physics is the study of the physical and theoretical realms through both the most complex and simple ways humans can fathom.
 * 11) Tyler Ogden: Physics is the mathematical and conceptual description of all that might exist.
 * 12) Nina Glasov: The journey of scientific discovery is a series of knots for which physics is the rope.
 * 13) Ryan Costello: A set of theories that seek to describe the Universe and everything in it.
 * 14) Achyut Shrestha: It is the attempt to understand how the stuff on the universe works with mathematics as an tool.
 * 15) Cass King: Physics is the study of EVERYTHING!
 * 16) Ethan Gooding: Physics is what you need to know in order to fully understand any other kind of science.
 * 17) Theo Ansbacher-Hunt: Physics is creating an imaginary world of unintelligent mathematical entities that correlates with the experiment when suitably interpreted.