Newtonianphysics was extended by Einstein to explain the effects of travelling near the speed of light; quantumphysics extends it to account for the behaviour of atoms.
1994, A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu, editors,Front Page Physics: A Century of Physics in the News[1], page 3:
An analysis of media reports can correspondingly cast some light not only on how much physics is being reported, but on what branches ofphysics attract most popular attention.
Thephysics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, inCNN[3]:
Daniel Hajas is aphysics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices.
Thephysical aspects of a phenomenon or a system, especially those examined or studied scientifically.
Thephysics of car crashes would not let Tom Cruise walk away like that.
1994, A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu, editors,Front Page Physics: A Century of Physics in the News[4], page 3:
An analysis of media reports can correspondingly cast some light not only on how muchphysics is being reported, but on what branches of physics attract most popular attention.
