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There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions. — Douglas Adams

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Introduction¹

Physics (Free Animated Education, YouTube Playlist)
Free Animated Education (Facebook)

Dictionary

Physical : (a) of or relating to physics (b) characterized or produced by the forces and operations of physics (c) having material existence : perceptible especially through the senses and subject to the laws of nature — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Realm : kingdom, sphere, domain — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Physical Realm : kingdom, sphere, or domain of things that have material existence and are perceptible, especially those things perceptible through the senses and subject to the laws of nature — Mary Hopper

Encyclopedia

Physical universe or “material universe” is terminology used to distinguish the physical matter of the universe from a spiritual or supernatural essence. — Wikipedia

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Inspiration

Talks about the Physical Universe (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)
Articles about the Physical Universe (Big Think)

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Innovation

In our time, there has been unloosed a cataclysm which has swept away space, time, and matter hitherto regarded as the firmest pillars of natural science, but only to make place for a view of things of wider scope, and entailing a deeper vision. — Hermann Weyl, Space, Time, Matter

Science

Physics is the science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, with its goal being to understand how the universe behaves. — Wikipedia

Physics (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Physics Portal (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Outline of Physical Science (Wikipedia)
Outline of Physics (Wikipedia)

Eric Weisstein’s World of Physics (ScienceWorld, Wolfram Research)
Physical Effects (Wolfram Alpha)

Classical physics is a group of theories that predate more modern and complete theories. Classical physical concepts are often used when modern theories are unnecessarily complex for a particular situation. Most often classical physics refers to pre-1900 physics, while modern physics refers to post-1900 physics which incorporates elements of quantum mechanics and relativity. Classical physics is typically concerned with everyday conditions: speeds are much lower than the speed of light, sizes are much greater than that of atoms, and energies are relatively small. — Wikipedia

The matter which we suppose to be the main constituent of the universe is built out of small self-contained building-blocks, the chemical atoms. It cannot be repeated too often that the word “atom” is nowadays detached from any of the old philosophical speculations: we know precisely that the atoms with which we are dealing are in no sense the simplest conceivable components of the universe. On the contrary, a number of phenomena, especially in the area of spectroscopy, lead to the conclusion that atoms are very complicated structures. So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundation of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small. If we start from our human scale of existence and explore the content of the universe further and further, we finally arrive, both in the large and in the small, at misty distances where first our senses and then even our concepts fail us. — Emil Wiechert

Modern physics is concerned with extreme conditions, such as high velocities that are comparable to the speed of light (special relativity), small distances comparable to the atomic radius (quantum mechanics), and very high energies (relativity). Quantum and relativistic effects are believed to exist across all scales, although these effects may be very small at human scale. Quantum mechanical effects tend to appear when dealing with “lows” (low temperatures, small distances), while relativistic effects tend to appear when dealing with “highs” (high velocities, large distances), the “middles” being classical behavior.
Very often, it is possible to find – or “retrieve” – the classical behavior from the modern description by analyzing the modern description at low speeds and large distances (by taking a limit, or by making an approximation). When doing so, the result is called the classical limit. — Wikipedia

Modern Physics (Eric Weisstein’s World of Physics, Wolfram Research)