modern physics
Noun
Meaning
modern physics (uncountable)
As distinguished from classical physics, all physics discoveries made since approximately 1900, including relativity and quantum mechanics.
Examples
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it.
Remarkably, only a handful of fundamental physical principles are sufficient to summarize most of modern physics.
Modern physics often advances only by sacrificing some of our traditional philosophical convictions.
Recognition of the subjectivity of the qualities of sense is found in Galilei (and also in Descartes and Hobbes) in a form closely related to the principle underlying the constructive mathematical method of our modern physics which repudiates" qualities."