"Knud Soerensen" wrote in message
. dk...
Maybe it should be
"the study of cause and effect in physical systems"
it also possible to study cause and effects in example economical systems.

I can't abide using the word "physic" in the the definition of physics
Whaa!! I'm a baby.

"Examining causation function C(C(X)), with recursion ending at either an
agreed upon law of reality or an accepted paradox or unknown"

Ugly definition. Maybe I should just forget about definitions.

Here is where I think I would naturally start:

[THING] -- [QUANTITY]

In other words, once I see that there are things that are different from
eachother, that is inexorably tied with the concept of "how many" of thing.

Thus we count!

[SPACE]

Well, I can move.I'm here. If I get up and walk I'll be there. I realize
that wherever I go, there I am.

[TIME]--[SPEED]

We both started moving through space, but he ran and I walked. He is there
and I'm still on the way. He got there faster than me.

[DIRECTION]

Moving takes time, and the more space I cover in some amount of time means I
went faster. But I notice that whenever I am moving through space, I have
to choose where to place my foot next in order to continue the moving.
Yeah, direction is pretty obviously a thing.

*** So, I would think these are the basic obvious things that humans
instrinsically were aware of.

Did I miss any, or include something I should not have?




Aaron wrote:
I would say Physics is best described as:

"The study of cause and effect"

Anyone thinks that's way off?

Why?






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