The phrase
"than physics" is a comparison used to indicate that something is more difficult or challenging than studying physics.
Full definition
A metaphysical explanation is more than giving efficient (and final) causes: it is
more than physics.
More important
than the physics of Will's article is the philosophical interpretation of Whitehead's theory.
Biology has been slower
than physics in moving away from the substantialist prejudice.
The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis is based on the insight that investors and financial markets behave more like
biology than physics, comprising a population of living organisms competing to survive, not a collection of inanimate objects subject to immutable laws of motion.
In a tenet of the new science that sounds more like Zen
Buddhism than physics, a thing can not even be said to be one thing or another until someone interrupts it to find out what it is.
- Karissa Milbury — Changing the cancer landscape - Jag Bhalla — Is Economics More Like
History Than Physics?
In fact, the emergence of the formula may have more to do with the properties of gamma
functions than the physics of the hydrogen atom, Nachtergaele says.
Reading Greene's account of subjects like quantum teleportation or of the simultaneous, eternal coexistence of the past, present, and future, it barely seems possible that any forthcoming discoveries could make the universe seem any
stranger than physics has already revealed it to be.
She says she realized there that «all these people were getting paid to do astronomy» and that it «looked more
fun than physics.»
Before classes even started, my academic advisor suggested that I might want to choose something
easier than physics and astronomy, despite coming in with an A + average in high school and scoring in the top 5 percent on the math assessment.
I couldn't imagine fitting in the optional extra salad and fruit (which fit within the 1,500 quota) and reckoned that the MyFitnessPal thing said more about my
cooking than physics.
More screwball
comedy than physics lecture, the play stars Anne - Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham and reunites many of the team behind the massively successful The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
The Nissan Altima sedan somehow seems able to stuff more cabin space between its front and rear
wheels than physics should allow.
For one thing, it implies that the principles of evolution — competition, innovation, reproduction, and adaptation — are more useful for understanding the inner workings of the financial
industry than the physics - like principles of rational economic analysis.
In the United States, the Obama administration did more than its predecessors, but far less
than physics requires.
The example here, thinking it smart to increase aerosols while continuing to emit CO2, despite the rate of change in the physical chemistry of the oceans — science known far more
precisely than the physics of the atmosphere — is a classic.
The Department also presents a range of courses that address the Liberal Arts Foundation requirements in the natural sciences for undergraduate students in disciplines
other than Physics.
Engineering is
HARDER than physics, because physics includes only those things we're thinking about or can formulate.
As it happened, I found that I generally enjoyed courses in math
more than physics; consequently I focussed much more on math in my final 2 years.
It was a banner no one else was flying in the forties and even in the fifties where home economics rather
than physics was thought to be the proper elective for female students.
Every time I walk into these freakish, localized gales, springing up while a block away there was nary a breeze, it seems like more
than physics is at work.