modern physics
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodernandphysics
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modern
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ən/us/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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physics
noun[U]
uk/ˈfɪz.ɪks/us/ˈfɪz.ɪks/
the scientific study of matter and energy and the effect that they have on ...
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(Definition ofmodernandphysicsfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Modernphysicsmust draw geometry into the realm of its investigations.
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Arguably, thermodynamics is as central to physical chemistry as electrodynamics is tomodernphysics.
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But the reframing of objectivity inmodernphysicscould ironically be at stake.
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Modernphysicsis not experimental because it applies apparatus to the questioning of nature.
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The transition from classical tomodernphysicsis portrayed here much more extensively - though of course merely in broad brush strokes.
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The fields chosen for comparison aremodernphysics, modern experimental psychology and modern neoclassical economics.
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Inmodernphysicsthere are just regularities of one sort or another.
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Conversely,modernphysics, as experimental, is dependent upon technical apparatus and upon progress in the building of apparatus.
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However,modernphysicscan now provide real situations where there are very few atoms and quantum discreteness can be observed.
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A careful analysis, one not blinded by the perspective ofmodernphysics, shows this not to be the case.
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Modernphysicsis not experimental a physics because it applies apparatus to the questioning of nature.
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The same matrices also arise elsewhere, especially in themodernphysicsof super-symmetry.
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The same sort of questions need to be asked for postmodernism andmodernphysics, or postmodernism and chaos theory.
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Accordingly, the ordering attitude and behaviour display themselves first in the rise ofmodernphysicsas an exact science.
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This is an essential role withinmodernphysics, particularly when it is a question of probability and randomness.
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At this point let me postpone an analysis of these searches for parallels between postmodernism andmodernphysics, and instead move directly on to representations of chaos theory.
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