Physics

59 primes originate from Physics. 37 more draw from it as a secondary origin.

Primary members (59)

Primes whose canonical origin is Physics.

• Amplification — Increase signal or disturbance.
• Anisotropy
• Coherence Breakdown Under External Interaction — The loss of a system's internal phase alignment or coordination when it couples to an uncontrolled, noisy environment that drains coherence into inaccessible correlations.
• Conjugate Variables — Interlinked variable pairs.
• Conservation Laws — Quantities remain constant.
• Convection — Circulatory process via gradients.
• Correspondence Principle — New theories match old limits.
• Critical Mass — The minimum quantity needed to sustain a self-perpetuating process.
• Damping — Reduce oscillations.
• Degrees of Freedom — Independent parameters.
• Diffusion — Spread over time.
• Dimensional Analysis — Ensures consistency in units.
• Discrete vs. Continuous (Quantization) — Step vs continuous evolution.
• Ensemble — Multiple simulations to capture variability.
• Entanglement — Linked distant states.
• Entropy (Thermodynamic Sense) — Degree of disorder.
• Equilibrium — Balanced state.
• Equivalence Principle — Gravity indistinguishable from acceleration.
• Flow — Structured movement of energy, matter, or information.
• Frame of Reference — Observational perspective.
• Gauge Invariance / Gauge Symmetry — Equivalent representations.
• Half-Life — Time to halve quantity.
• Hidden Path and Barrier Crossing — Non-obvious transitions.
• Hysteresis — Path dependence.
• Inertia — Resistance to change.
• Instability — Amplifies perturbations.
• Intermittency — Irregular bursts.
• Irreversibility — Cannot revert state.
• Mach's Principle — The thesis that a body's inertia is not intrinsic but arises from its relation to the total distribution of matter in the universe, making local inertial structure a consequence of global contents.
• Measurement and Disturbance — Obtaining information while minimizing measurement perturbation.
• Measurement Uncertainty and Complementarity — Complementary observables cannot be simultaneously specified precisely.
• Noether's Theorem — Symmetry links to conservation.
• Observer Effect — Observation alters system.
• Oscillation — Repeated variation.
• Perturbation — Small disturbance.
• Perturbation Theory — A technique for handling an intractable problem by splitting it into an exactly solvable baseline plus a small correction, then expanding the quantities of interest as a power series in that small parameter.
• Phase Diagram — Maps system states.
• Phase Space — All possible system states.
• Principle of Least Action — Optimal system paths.
• Propagation — The systematic spreading of a signal, effect, or state from a source through a medium or network, where the medium's structure governs how fast it moves, how it attenuates, and which paths it follows.
• Quantum Decoherence
• Quantum Tunneling
• Renormalization — Adjust parameters across scales.
• Resonance — Amplified response at frequency.
• Scale Invariance — Behavior unchanged under scaling.
• Second Law of Thermodynamics — Entropy increases.
• Signal Decay and Fadeout — Signals, influence, or effects systematically weaken over time or space.
• Stochasticity vs. Determinism — System behavior fully determined by prior state or fundamentally random.
• Superposition — Multiple states coexist.
• Symmetry Breaking — Loss of symmetry creates structure.
• Synchronization — The emergence of stable shared timing or phase among independent oscillating processes through local coupling, without any central conductor.
• Thermodynamic Equilibrium — No net flows.
• Threshold-Driven Order Emergence — Order after critical point.
• Time — The dimension that orders events from earlier to later with measurable duration and an irreversible direction, providing the foundation for change, rate, and causality.
• Tipping Points (or Phase Transitions) — Abrupt state change.
• Turbulence — Chaotic multi-scale flow.
• Universality in Critical Phenomena — Shared scaling laws.
• Wave — Propagating disturbance.
• Wave-Particle Duality — Dual nature of matter.

Also draws from Physics (37)

Primes whose canonical origin is elsewhere, but who list Physics among their alternate origin domains.

• Allometry and Scaling Law — Properties scale nonlinearly with size according to characteristic exponents.
• Approximation — Good-enough representation.
• Balance — Even distribution of elements.
• Calibration — Aligning a system's output to a trusted reference by measuring deviation, adjusting to reduce it, and monitoring for drift.
• Causality — Cause-effect relationships.
• Chaos — Unpredictable dynamics.
• Correlation — Systematic co-variation between variables, distinct from causation.
• Coupling — Interdependence among subsystems.
• Crystallization
• Dimension — Degrees of freedom in a system.
• Discreteness — Countable steps.
• Duality — Complementary perspectives.
• Environmental Coupling Strength — Rate of energy, information, or material exchange across boundary.
• Equivariance — A map whose output transforms in step with transformations of its input.
• Gradient — Distribution and change over space/time.
• Gradual Deterioration — The incremental, often invisible decay of a system as sub-threshold stressors accumulate damage until capacity collapses, posing greater risk precisely because the slow progression is easy to overlook.
• Invariance — Properties unchanged under transformation.
• Linearity — Proportional output.
• Markov Process — Future state depends only on the present, not the full history.
• Modal Reasoning — Reasoning about necessity, possibility, and contingency.
• Monte Carlo Simulation — Random sampling approximation.
• Nonlinearity — Disproportionate output.
• Periodicity — Regular cycles.
• Progressive Refinement from Core Model — Incremental refinement.
• Randomness — Model unpredictability.
• Recurrence — The property by which a state, event, or value reappears across time or iterations because the present state depends on prior states, distinct from mere repetition by its measurable lag structure.
• Reductionism — Explaining a whole entirely in terms of its constituent parts.
• Scale — Properties change with size.
• Scaling and Scale Dependence — Patterns and constraints change qualitatively across different scales.
• Sedimentation
• Self-Organization — Order without central control.
• Simulated Annealing — Probabilistic search escaping local optima.
• Stationarity — Stable statistical properties.
• Stress and Rupture — Accumulated tension leads to break.
• Symmetry — Invariance under transformation.
• Threshold — Safe vs harmful levels.
• Uncertainty — Incomplete knowledge.