Comment on Physics
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 6 months agoIsn’t a lot of engineering basically applied physics though anyway? Just reversed, such that rather than studying or predicting how a physical system should behave, you’re trying to take what has been learned over time and use it to work backwards to create a system that exhibits desired behavior
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 6 months ago
In the sense, medicine is applied physics, just as everything else.
Thing is, you always break down a problem into just enough details to solve the problem. Not more. No physicist studying, say, airflow over the Atlantic will take quantum effects or relativistic effects into account. Magnetic fields are also ignored. Even clouds are surprisingly “low res” in most simulations.
Instigate@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Mathematics is the only true science.
Physics is applied mathematics.
Chemistry is applied physics.
Biology is applied chemistry.
Psychology is applied biology.
Sociology is applied psychology.
Et al.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I mean yeah. Insert the relevant XKCD here.
But in a more direct sense, medicine is applied chemistry. (With chemistry itself being applied physics.)