The Space of Physical Frameworks (Part 1)

Besides learning about individual physical theories, students learn different frameworks in which physical theories are formulated. I’m talking about things like this:

• classical statics
• classical mechanics
• quantum mechanics
• thermodynamics
• classical statistical mechanics
• quantum statistical mechanics

A physical framework often depends on some physical constants that we can imagine varying, and in some limit one framework may reduce to another. This suggests that we should study a ...