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author | Preston Pan <preston@nullring.xyz> | 2024-06-28 21:30:42 -0700 |
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committer | Preston Pan <preston@nullring.xyz> | 2024-06-28 21:30:42 -0700 |
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diff --git a/mindmap/physics.org b/mindmap/physics.org index f0fcf89..eeb3a0c 100644 --- a/mindmap/physics.org +++ b/mindmap/physics.org @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ There is no currently known theory that can describe [[id:2b8515d8-9f3c-44a3-a40 many correspondences and [[id:1b1a8cff-1d20-4689-8466-ea88411007d7][dualities]]. ** Classical Mechanics Classical mechanics deals with fields of physics that do not deal with time dilation or quantum -weirdness. It is called classical mechanics because most of these theories wer invented before +weirdness. It is called classical mechanics because most of these theories were invented before their quantum or relativistic counterparts, and usually serve as a baseline understanding for the later topics. *** [[id:6e2a9d7b-7010-41da-bd41-f5b2dba576d3][Newtonian mechanics]] @@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ governed all things. This is a different strain of classical mechanics. Instead of looking at direction and vectors, it looks at a single fundamental principle, even more fundamental than inertia and conservation of momentum: optimization. We believe that nature always optimizes for some parameters in all physical phenomena. Almost -all physical theories including electromagnetism, general relativity, Newtonian mechanics, and even quantum mechanics can be explained -within the Lagrangian framework. +all physical theories including electromagnetism, general relativity, Newtonian mechanics, and even quantum +mechanics can be explained within the Lagrangian framework. +*** Fluid Mechanics +*** Thermodynamics *** Classical Electrodynamics Classical electrodynamics attempts to explain the electromagnetic force from a classical perspective. What is light? How does electricity actually work? All these questions you will find (half) answered in the study @@ -39,7 +41,13 @@ of electrodynamics, giving rise to the complete theory encoded in [[id:fde2f257- *** General Relativity General Relativity aims unify gravity with [[id:e38d94f2-8332-4811-b7bd-060f80fcfa9b][special relativity]], in a unified theory of macroscopic forces including classical electromagnetism. - -** Quantum Mechanics +** [[id:136e79df-106f-4989-ab19-89705929cf91][Quantum Mechanics]] Quantum mechanics renounces all hope of having a deterministic view of physics, and instead replaces direct causation with statistical causation, at least according to some interpretations. +** QFT +Quantum Field Theory is an approach that combines [[id:e38d94f2-8332-4811-b7bd-060f80fcfa9b][special relativity]] with [[id:136e79df-106f-4989-ab19-89705929cf91][quantum mechanics]], then utilizing a process +called canonical quantization in order to quantize a given field. This is the closest thing we have to a theory of [[id:2b8515d8-9f3c-44a3-a40d-147f6a2bbb25][everything]] +in physics. + +* Note +I did not exhaustively cover all fields in physics but this is most of it. |