Freedom of Science

Physics is a loaded word with many meanings:

• legal code
• legal profession
• rubric for theoretical academic topics formerly known as scholasticism
• rubric for laboratory research of certain kind with technological applications
• series of formal tests that must be passed to obtain a license to practice physics
• legislating nature
• professional occultism
• great chain of the absurd

Physics is defined more than once therefore physics is a pun. Pun is the superimposition of two or more meanings of a word. Pun is like musical chord so it is pleasing and people love puns.

But the most fun is when the pun is hidden and the physicist has to explain it to you. That’s how physicists make their living.

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