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Physics is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.

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When We Cease to Understand the World
The MANIAC
Physics for Cats
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
White Holes
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
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Physics Books

A Brief History of Time
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
The Grand Design
Physics of the Impossible
The Order of Time
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Cosmos
The Universe in a Nutshell
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Lists

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky ChambersLove, Theoretically by Ali HazelwoodNobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth PhillipsProject Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Women Physicists and Astronomers in Fiction
44 books — 10 voters
The Principia by Isaac NewtonThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinRelativity by Albert EinsteinOn The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus CopernicusA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Science Through History
226 books — 11 voters

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard RhodesCommand and Control by Eric SchlosserHiroshima by John HerseyAmerican Prometheus by Kai BirdVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
History of the Nuclear Age
230 books — 84 voters
The Focus Equation by Thinker MindsetThe Order of Time by Carlo RovelliA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingTime Travel by James GleickTimefulness by Marcia Bjornerud
Time: What it is and how to use it
94 books — 17 voters

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanNight by Elie WieselLong Walk to Freedom by Nelson MandelaRelativity by Albert Einstein
Nobel Prize in ANYTHING BUT Literature
147 books — 58 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
1,974 books — 1,270 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Physics”

Kathryn Stockett
“ He needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. ...more ”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
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Werner Heisenberg
“ Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. ”
― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers
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Videos Tagged “Physics”

Why I wrote Scattered - and where the idea came from
Why I wrote Scattered - and where the idea came from
100 Solved Problems on Rectilinear Motion
100 Solved Problems on Rectilinear Motion
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