Why you should learn some physics
Recognize lies, reduce fears, satisfy curiosity, and make the world a better place
People fear lightning. By studying it, humans developed lightning rods, and the number of deaths due to lightning is extremely low, especially in cities. Therefore, nowadays, lightning generates only moderate fear.
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Some people fear alien spaceships. Alas, spaceships exist as much as pink flying elephants. The term “spaceship” is a lie in one word.
Other people fear that some evil energy may appear and suddenly take over the world. No, this will not happen. Energy is conserved. Nature follows rules.
Other people sell shares in companies that extract energy from the vacuum. But the vacuum is defined as the state of lowest possible energy. Such energy extraction is impossible. These people are lying.
Still other people say that nature has secrets, that there are mysterious phenomena in nature, or that there are hidden powers. Instead, a bit of physics will make you understand that this is not the case. Many cults spread such fears, all based on lies. Physics, your own experience, and your own reason will reject these fears and lies.
Physics does so by explaining that every change in nature is due to motion. Therefore, every change in nature has conserved quantities. In particular, in nature, things cannot appear or disappear suddenly. Not even lightning. Such fears are unfounded.
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But physics also helps to push curiosity to the limit. One learns what matter is made of, how light moves, how computers work, how lasers function, how atoms and molecules are constructed, and how stars shine and move. One explores and learns to explain chemistry, biology, machines, and the universe, with its size and its history.
Physics also tells us that everything that moves in nature is made of smallest countable constituents. This applies to people, animals, stars, black holes, and even to the curvature of empty space.
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Physics also tells us how we can change the world. When we dream about the future of medicine, of agriculture, of communication, of computing, of transport, of space travel, or of serving others in any other way, it makes sense to check what is possible and what is not by using all knowledge about how change and motion occur in nature. Physics is the science of motion.
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For a simple start, enjoy the free physics textbook in 5 volumes, downloadable at motionmountain.net, written to be entertaining and motivating on every page, for readers between 16 and 106 years of age.
I like your confidence that somehow physics is explaining all these things but it certainly does not explain chemistry, or any fundamental thing. It studies the effects and then we create theories about the causes of these effects. This means that we form a great deal of opinions about what is going on that are false and incorporate them as if they are true science. The way you can know this is the case is because we do not have The Theory of Everything which would naturally appear if your ideas were correct. The monks are giving us that and it's actually easy to understand and therefore people need no longer fear physics!